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Here it is again. 

Some clueless FOOL talking about the "Information Superhighway." 
They don't know JACK about the net. It's NOTHING like a Superhighway. 
That's a BAD metaphor. Yeah, but suppose the metaphor ran in 
the OTHER direction. 

Suppose the HIGHWAYS were like the NET. All right! Severe craziness. A 
highway HUNDREDS of lanes wide. Most with potholes. Privately operated 
bridges and overpasses. No highway patrol. A couple of rent-a-cops on 
bicycles with broken whistles. 500 member VIGILANTE POSSES with nuclear 
weapons. 237 ON RAMPS at every intersection. NO SIGNS. Wanna get to 
Ensenada? Holler out the window at a passing truck to ask directions. AD 
HOC traffic laws. 

Some lanes would VOTE to make use by a single-occupant-vehicle a CAPITAL 
OFFENSE on Monday through Friday between 7:00 and 9:00. Other lanes 
would just SHOOT you without a trial for talking on a car phone. AOL 
would be a giant diesel-smoking BUS with hundreds of EBOLA victims and a 
TOILET spewing out on the road behind it. Throwing DEAD WOMBATS and 
rotten cabbage at the other cars most of which have been ASSEMBLED AT 
HOME from kits. Some are 2.5 horsepower LAWNMOWER ENGINES with a top 
speed of nine miles an hour. Others burn NITROGLYCERINE and IDLE at 120.

No license tags. World War II BOMBER NOSE ART instead. Terrifying 
paintings of huge teeth or VAMPIRE EAGLES. Bumper mounted MACHINE GUNS. 
Flip somebody the finger on this highway and get a WHITE PHOSPHORUS 
GRENADE up your tailpipe. Flatbed trucks with ANTI-AIRCRAFT MISSILE 
BATTERIES to shoot down the KRUD Traffic Watch helicopter. A little kid 
on a tricycle with a squirtgun filled with HYDROCHLORIC ACID. NO 
OFFRAMPS. Now THAT'S the way to run an Interstate Highway system.