View from the North 40: Oh, rats, you know how to live right

That 2019 news about scientists teaching rats to drive a car is making the rounds again like it’s been cruising the drag and is coming back up the street.

I was going to sit at my stop sign and let the fast and the furriest drive on by without commenting or even waving. But, I don’t know, it’s a story about lab rats being happy about driving a car to a spot where someone brings food to your window like going to an old-fashioned drive-up restaurant where a carhop brings you your milkshake and a burger.

Sure, it’s not like they get to hit the open road and feel the wind on their fac...