The mob takeover of the U.S. Capitol building in Washington D.C. on January 6, 2021 deeply undermines America\u2019s pivotal role in promoting democracy globally. The rise of decentralized digital currencies will only make things worse.These cars were made for washing, and that\u2019s just what we\u2019ll do. (Photo by camilo jimenez on Unsplash)In 1985, I sat in the backseat of a 1975 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme, with my parents in the bench seat in front, pulling up to a nondescript automatic carwash just off of South Volusia Avenue, Daytona Beach Florida.A typical Floridian Spring day, temperatures were in the mid seventies and the air dewy sweet with the scent of begonias and lilacs that Florida\u2019s legion of retirees were busy tending to.\u201cYour car is too big.\u201d\u201cWhat do you mean my car is too big?\u201d my father asked quizzically at the reed-thin man leaning into the driver side window of our car, hints of chest hair showing over his dirty-white wifebeater, a well-worn clipboard under his arm and a red trucker cap with a Bud Light logo emblazoned across the front atop his head.\u201cYour car, it\u2019s too big, it can\u2019t fit into the auto wash.\u201dFrom the backseat, I could see my father\u2019s slender shoulder blades tensing, his thick, dark hair starting to quiver ever so slightly with frustration as he looked over his dashboard at Cadillacs twice the size of our car rolling happily into the car wash.But instead of getting into an altercation with Mr. Bud Light, he merely smiled,\u201cNo problem, we\u2019ll take it elsewhere.\u201dAnd that was that.My father, an aeronautical engineer, pulled our Oldsmobile out of the carwash, his posture gradually relaxed and we drove off to another carwash, where the proprietor, a younger man auburn hair and a ruddy face, dressed in blue dungarees greeted our Asian family with a\u2026<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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