USA: Driving Instruction Fail

Why aren't we providing decent driving instruction to new drivers in the US.  

Many call the passing lane "the fast lane" and truly don't know the difference, and stick in it causing traffic and accidents.

Many weave right before a left turn or vice versa as if they are driving an 80 foot tractor trailer, or have forgotten they aren't racing at Le Mans that day.

Many feel a red light or stop sign is a green/go for checking one's phone, despite being part of active traffic.

Wouldn't we save far more lives by adequately providing driving instruction to young and new drivers.  Better yet, what about a graduated system as in other Western countries?  

So many people feel they are better drivers than they really are, and given an instructor I've recently talked with, I can understand why this might come about. In my opinion, this instructor wasn't a good driver himself, having learned some rules from a book written long ago without relevancy in a world of smartphones, loud stereos and a majority of drivers that lack expected common sense in an "accident" scenario.

I will find data to support.

Confectioners on crack

What drug(s) were candy makers on when inventing some of the names of popular candies and chocolates?  Certainly some names come from another era when society's lexicon included these unusual pairings. 

I'll return to this one later with some findings on these to start...

Butterfinger

Heath

100 Grand

Snickers

M and M's

Twizzlers

Meteorologist Monkeys

What if animals were able to predict the weather like we do/guess through Lou the meteorologist? 

Would they be ever more efficient at life?

Have humans become more efficient at life, at creating comfort through fairly accurate weather prediction? I think it's fairly easy to argue yes.   So then would this additional this enable some animals to live differently and possibly extend their lifespan?

Are you one of those with the opinion that animals can predict weather?  I think all would agree that animals can feel pressure changes and notice those visible differences in the sky, oceans, and earth, but what about prediction that's more than a day in the future?  Do (some) animals have some senses we don't?  

Daddy Issues

American society falls one more bit behind other advanced societies every time we embrace an inane phrase and proceed to overuse it.  

An example I just overheard "She's got daddy issues".   I would be willing to wager that most don't even know what this phrase relates to, what it really means, and how insulting it is to both those who know what it means correctly and incorrectly. 

Related to this has grown adjacent phrases like "come to papa".  Seriously, break that one down a minute.  Imagine the same cro magnon moron who pokes fun at a woman for having "daddy issues" in the afternoon uses "come to papa" with his wife later that evening. Sick. Stupid. Stupid sick.