1st issue- While watching that wonderful soccer game today, I realized that the name United States of America is just wayy too long. I mean U.S.A is almost like saying U.S.S.R. Why can't we just call it America? I mean it's not like South America even cares/matters? They have individual countries with individual names.

2nd issue- I've been looking at the cars recently and have realized, long gone are the days of speed. The fantasy cars I grew up with, the speed demons, lucifer's chariots, the Diablo SV, the McLarren F1 are just myths now. The days of thinking the red light was to rev your engine, yellow to rev your engine more, and green to let go of the clutch are completely over (in video games of course). The new car games are about running from the cops and being a gang member, rather than pure racing. Just watching F1 world champion Lewis Hamilton talk about how he owns a Merc GL and thinks of it as his "pimp cruiser" was just sad. All the kids are more focused about the ipod integration or bluetooth handsfree on their car rather than the engine. And it's not their fault. It's the price of fuel. It's the same reason why formula 1 races are slower, super cars are slower, and people are losing interest in speed. People aren't reluctant to buy expensive cars, they just hate filling it up every week and watching the numbers on the pump increase one by one and go all the way up to $60- $70 -$80. But how can car companies fix this issue? The quickest fix is to make smaller cars with more features. Till now all the smaller subcompact cars are completely stripped of any luxuries. Take the toyota echo for instance- crappy steering, plasticy everything, shitty stereo. Compare that to another small car with luxury features such as the bmw 3 seires or the Lexus IS. Clearly those sell far better and are much more profitable to the car companies too because people do not mind paying more for a smaller car as long as it has the features of premium bigger saloon cars. So give me a civic with laser guided cruise control, a decent engine, RWD, and a bang&olufsen stereo, and I will be happy to pay 30k for it.