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40,000 people in Shelby County? It's the biggest county in Tennessee. A million people live here.

And yes, the terribly corrupt Sheriff's department is fearmongering for DHS money. Like everybody else in law enforcement these days.

A few years back I got to see Prince perform my favorite of his songs "The Ballad of Dorothy Parker". If I get to see David Byrne perform "Life During Wartime", I could die happy.

I did something similar, too, only with Mechwarrior on the old Super Nintendo.

Yes, that's it! Thank you, scientiaobscura.

Wow! That was a flash of unexpected recognition.I had that book when I was a little kid. I wore it out! I wonder what happened to it.

I had another book that had a similar format, but it was like a military history book from the future that had spaceship paintings along with the history of their use in various interstellar conflicts. I have no idea what it was called or who did it, but the style of the art was very similar.