I asked for an example, and you give me someone who became a philanthropist in the twilight of his life. Half-credit. Did he really give a damn about his fellow man, or did he simply enjoy seeing his name chiseled in stone on public libraries and such? Nobody knows.

You probably don't recall the era when the Defense Department was the world's sole consumer of computers, back in the era when they filled whole rooms and required power sufficient to light a small city.

About 3.78l/U.S. gallon. And you're right.

Clarify? OK. I want you to prove my rant wrong, since you're such a believer in faith-based economics.

Since new cars are murder, Joe_Limon says in reality, most Hipsters are driving something similar to a 90's Corolla.

A beat-ass Seventies Mopar. Not a muscle car, not a luxury barge like an Imperial. A Duster or a Dart with the slant-6. Bench seat for obvious carnal reasons. The automotive equivalent of Salvation Army t-shirts and Grandma's oversized sunglasses.

Provide one instance where it worked. With attribution. From a legitimate (non-right wing conspiracy) source.

Private capital has zero interest in electric cars. Does that mean they shouldn't be built? Private capital has one interest - profit. Government's interests are different. Promoting certain things that private capital cannot or will not do, but is in the public interest (we really need to wean ourselves off…

Could "oriental" flavor be cat?

Or Marlin fans suck, or something like that.

If it is indeed a showroom-fresh car, and all the vinyl bits need is a shot of Armor All, I'd say you could do a lot worse for nine grand.

It's the hops, or in O'Doul's case, the lack thereof. This is the thing that makes beer taste good, and the Germans know enough to not skimp on that if they're removing the only other reason people drink beer. So Beck's NA tastes like real beer, more or less, while O'Doul's tastes like horse piss.

Gobs of power, conservative but not dated styling, comfort while sacrificing as little performance as possible. It should be easily possible to make a luxury car that is whisper quiet, smooth as silk, fast (if you're into that kind of thing), easy to handle, and not boring. Given enough money, that is. These things…

Step 4 - return to the office and find a week's worth (or more) of work sitting on your desk, untouched. And you're expected to clear your desk by the end of the day. You go home as if you never went on vacation at all.

We actually get three, but we have to take sick leave out of that. So we save it up. If we catch something particularly nasty, we don't get to go on vacation that year. Yep, Europeans bitch about going down from six weeks to five, or whatever, but they've got to be shaking their heads at us.

Just once, I'd like to go on vacation for a week or ten days and not go anywhere. No plane trip, no shitty rental car, no "what are we doing today?", nothing. Just sitting on my front porch watching the grass grow. I realize we came up with a word for that during the Great Recession of '08-'09, but I never got one…

You can always tell a German, but you can't tell him much. LOL ;-)

Don't go to DeCA on military paydays (1st and 15th of the month, for you civilians who can't go there anyway) unless you love standing in line, listening to everybody else's screaming kids (up to age 5 or 6 - discipline is oftentimes surprisingly lax in some military families, and don't flame me; I know this from…

There will be four trim levels, but all 2014 Corollas have LED lowbeam headlamps with LED daytime running lights, an in-glass AM/FM antenna, color-keyed outside door handles and outside mirrors, a 60/40 split fold-down rear seat, power door locks with automatic locking feature, power windows with driver-side one-touch…

Snazzy. A vast improvement over my wife's '09. Does every Corolla get this, or is this just for the S version?