So much oil-burning optimism, how do you keep your hopes up? I don't know that whining will do it, maybe if we whine via Twitter and Facebook... Actually, a semi-sporty euro diesel/manual hatch sounds almost good enough to make me to join Twitter and Facebook.

One person who's exceedingly happy about this: Ron White's rich, stuck up former brother-in-law... Now Mercedes does make a van!

@MarywithanM: as you were:

That was, hands down, the best comment all day. The story is great on its own, but the picture is priceless.

Part of me is disappointed that it's basically just a big cube made of Lego bricks... but the rest of me kicked that part in the shins then ran and tattled to mom that he was hogging all the tapered roof pieces.

Oh to be a drip-pan supplier in Frankfurt... everything seems to be leaking.

@H2H: I don't mean to look a gift horse in the mouth... but, source?

Sadly, they wont let us customize the college plates.

@Dhillaz 2.0: GTA (that's what we called it when there wasn't an II) came out when I was in college and we did not yet know who invented the internet... It was a whole new world for a naive small town kid with little money, I was not aware that there was a time when this game was not free. ;)

Shocked, just shocked. It's almost as if they make small, inexpensive, fuel efficient cars and the government was handing out thousands of dollars in cash incentives to folks wishing to reduce their fuel consumption.

@Ash78: Oh, the hours wasted jumping the bridge, crushing cars with the tank, and causing all manner of havoc with those RC car bombs... Judging by the screenshot with 31 ignored text messages in the interest of testing out the flame-thrower this version will be just as addictive as the originals.

Despite Cash for Clunkers, Chrysler still went bankrupt, called do-overs on lifetime power-train warranties, has an entire lineup of universally hated cars, and is lacking the fan-boy base of a 40 year production history to support the lethargic new Challenger... yeah, sales are still down.

@tempesjo:

The cord on my phone is neatly wound without kinks or back loops, it lays flat on my desk, it's adequate and not unsightly. But someone less anal retentive isn't going to pay attention to which way they twist and turn the receiver when they set it down, soon the cord loops over itself, the windings stretch out, it…

@3wheeler: Too bad I don't have your e-mail address.

@Unevolved has three moving parts.:

@ursa: There's also the whirlybird, which can hover and pump water out of a pond, lake, or river. I've watched a Bell 205 fill up in the bottom of a ravine less than a mile away from the fire. The average Chinook, Aircrane, or Blackhawk fills the same bill requiring only a marginally wider berth. But firefighting…

@MarywithanM as you were: +1 on the star congrats... things are getting back to normal.

@Al Navarro: Thanks for all the hard work Al. It's already made a great improvement, but it's also taught a lot of folks the spirit of the Ombudsman, the legacy of which carry on strong.

@GreenN_Gold: Congrats on your star, well deserved.