Rainey Blogs on Some Days

I finally had to get rid of my 2001 Ford Focus with manual windows after driving it 144,000 miles, which from the Book of Revelation seems to be some sort of number of completion. I always had to grab the handle and crank the windows down because it did not have automatic windows. I used to wonder to myself, “Are we Americans so lazy that we need to have automatic windows where we just push the button down and the window rolls down?” Some cars only require a tap on the button and the window goes all the way down by itself. How will we ever win another war with a citizenry of people who grow up with automatic windows? And forgive this digression, but have you noticed what's happening in the airports of this great nation? Do people use the stairs? No, they ride on an escalator. And they do not even walk up or down the escalator while it is moving. They step on and stand there, riding without effort. And many people who do this are even wearing flip-flops! Is it any wonder we are...