I'm on my high-speed rail bandwagon again...

To be more accurate, rather than climb onto a bandwagon, I'd rather be on high-speed rail without having to leave the United States. A couple of great posts recently on Huffington Post about this topic:

• Chris Matthews writes about how high-speed rail construction can help improve our crumbling infrastructure and provide vital construction jobs at the same time.
• John Robbins writes about how we Americans tend to thumb our noses at public transportation, which is a phenomenon created by automakers and oil companies conspiring to drive people from the rails to publicly subsidized and built roads and highways.