Today, Gary Busey will mark the anniversary of the Senate passage of the 1966 landmark National Traffic and Safety Act by riding his motorcycle without his helmet on. Ralph Nader will spend it mourning his lost youth and relevance (his book Unsafe at Any Speed prompted the law), while the Republican Party will spend the day plotting to scrap automotive safety standards. "We're almost ready to decimate all the New Deal crap," noted a boomer-aged Republican strategist. "Why not go after this? Much cheaper just to show young people the old black and white highway safety films. Those movies scared the bejesus out of everybody, and they didn't hamper the all-important job creators with excessive regulations."
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| "We need to go back to early sixties standards," said the strategist. "Back then we knew fast cars and fast girls both ended up in Hell, where they belonged," |
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