Excellent story. Personal Irony as I just had an MRI.

That’s full on Nazi right there.

When I was in college (back in the Nixon years) we read Hitler and Mussolini's screeds along with more respected political theorists. (Note here that Marx sort of straddled the divide) It was the only way to get a handle on the flaws in their thinking.

When you write to feed your family, it's nice to have somewhere else to encounter folks. Pointing us to your latest work, and some older stuff, is fun but it's also nice to just have a chat now and then.

Loved it.

I think to most appropriate response would be for the "victim" to shout as loudly as possible: "STOP VIOLATING MY FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS!"

People always said that Gary was full if shit.

Variants of closed loop Loco's were often used around volatile materials like at ammunition dumps because exposed fireboxes could be dangerous.