It's a manual Mazda 3! We should give her a Jalop identification card.

Thats interesting. I would guess they want proprietary fueling to prevent foreign countries from getting up close? Or just more options.

There's at least one exception to that. The Navy's E-6 Mercury (better known as TACAMO) refuels via boom. And this fun little guy has the appropriate markings and shape for a refueling receptacle.

IIRC the solid boom is a USAF exclusive. The Navy and foreign militaries use the probe.

Seriously though, I tried to play GT3 on a Playstation 2 about a year ago but it was so pixelated I found it distracting. I remember that game looking so good but my standards have changed so much.

I think you analyzed it well — right down to the reason for the removal in Photoshop. Either that or their location scout found a reasonably shiny Gooney Bird chocked up at the end of a disused ramp somewhere while it awaited maintenance, and never really thought about this stuff. *

It was a lease, so I was only stuck with it for 27 months. The Ford Taurus X and Flex are so much better...

My dad bought a 1984 Escort Wagon with with a four speed manual (tan with the "woody" sides!) for his drive from the west Detroit suburbs to his engineering job at Ford. After college, I drove a 1993 Escort Wagon with a five speed manual (hand me down car from girlfriend's mom) from the west Detroit suburbs to my job…

This sounds about right. If that's true and station wagons are ascendant, then I should get a minivan NOW and I'll be ahead of the curve! Score.

beginning to suspect "princeton mom" is actually a robot controlled by a cartel of sentient polyester scarves

As someone who works in the anti-counterfeiting industry, I just wanted to say that your description of how the crime of selling counterfeit goods is simple trademark infringement is incredibly simplistic and just wrong. Finished counterfeit goods are just the tip of the crime iceberg.

I hate people who bring their babies with them on planes.

I submit for this equation the Nash Ambassador AirFlyte. A warm car in the rain with seats that fold into a bed to rest on under your blogger's duvet. All this with a front that, as Jay Leno points out, resembles Rodney Dangerfield.

Back in 1980 I bought my new RX-7 , I briefly considered making a bumper sticker that used the Japanese katakana phonetic alphabet to spell out "Hiroshima's Revenge".

There are differences in US and German labor laws, that make a direct offer difficult. A good place to start, if you are interested in how it works, is reading NLRB stuff.

When you consider the political position of IG Metall within the governance structure of VAG, you can see why they are looking for a similar situation here in Tennessee. It works over there. I'm not sure the Americans are ready to change to a cooperative Labor/Management leadership like we see in Germany, though. …

Eh sort of, Tyler. Here's how it goes (as I remember it):

Wow, reading the comments... I did not expect hate down here. That's sad.

I honestly think Warner Bros of all people has the right take on the debate