I'd be remiss if I didn't point out that Google has a bit of a diversity problem, even though it has set up shop in a city that's mostly black and brown.

Patrick, "more dangerous to the people in power than it's ever been"? Surely thou jest! The Washington press corps has worked diligently as lap dogs to the Obama administration and most of the media that isn't avowedly conservative or libertarian, including the Gawker constellation, just regurgitates the narratives of…

Things just look different in real life than they do in even the best 3D or VR. I'm a big fan of 3D but it has its limitations. Also, since some of those changes you mentioned involve raising surfaces, not just shaving them, you have to add clay.

Much of the styling with clay models involves very subtle changes. It's a lot easier and cheaper to do the alterations and fine tuning by hand than to carve a completely new full size model via CNC.

I've probably taken about 20,000 3D photos of cars and while I think that 3D and virtual reality will be mainstream in a few years, things look different in even the most realistic 3D than in real life.

Aaron, you working the race on Belle Isle this weekend?

Aaron, agendas aside, the point that I took away from the Goobing Detroit images is that they portray the decline that's taken place recently, since 2009. I'm in the city a lot and have no illusions about how extensive the blight and urban prairie is. I also recognize the tendrils of growth in the Woodward corridor…

The whole world in its entirety is a very narrow bridge and the essential thing is to not be afraid at all. - Rabbi Nachman of Breslov

If he's such a good man why did he act like a child when I asked him about his wealth?

One of the craziest ideas was Preston Tucker and Harry Miller convincing Henry Ford to finance the building of 10 front wheel drive Indy racers powered by flathead Ford engines. They only had two months to build them so they didn't do much testing and found out that the steering box was too close to the exhaust…

So how much time do you think the Conyers spent cohabiting? He's been living in Washington for decades.

So if Conyers has so much influence over the Feds, how come they never indicted Young?

Raph, a couple of years ago the concours at St. John's (formerly Meadow Brook) honored Tom Gale and had the Atlantic on display along with some of the other concepts made under his direction. It's a dramatic car in person. Not necessarily to my tastes, but then I'm not a huge fan of 1930s French styling. More pics here

Coleman and Conyers were part of the same political machine. When the history of Detroit is written, Mayor Young will be seen as one of the bigger villains. He let neighborhoods burn on Devil's Night, destroyed a vital neighborhood to build the Poletown GM plant when there were lots of other options and he cynically…

Conyers has championed not only the well-being of Detroit, but also the well-being of its most famous industry.

Like I said, the U.S. gets good value on its aid to Israel, though plenty of free-market inclined Israelis agree that economic (as opposed to military, which is the bulk of the assistance) aid isn't needed anymore. It's true that Israel gets more U.S. aid than any single country, $3.075 billion in 2012. However, when…

Actually, the preemptive "anytime someone criticizes Israel they get called an anti-semite" functions as the same kind of heckler's veto that charging someone with a Godwin violation does. The people who use that gambit typically go on to apply a double standard to the Jewish state that they won't apply to any other…

I know that you want to deny that Jew hatred exists, but it's the Muslim Brotherhood and other groups in the Arab and Muslim worlds that can't let go of their Nazi beliefs.

More ad hominem without addressing the issues that I raised and points subtracted for playing the "racist" and "bigot" cards while simultaneously stereotyping Jews as childish and immature saber rattlers who unreasonably won't make peace with people like this woman:

Aegis, Torch or some other defensive system.