@fhrblig: And let's be honest, the reputation matters a lot. I dunno what that Fusion is going to be like in 20 years. I'm pretty sure the Accord will be humming along just fine at 250K miles, though. And the minimal depreciation on Hondoyotas is pretty hard to ignore...

I never met him, but I worked with some people who had the fortune to spend a bit of time around him while we were starting up a camp for sick kids a few years ago. He'd show up at these Hole in the Wall Gang camps to talk to donors or businessmen, but wind up spending most of his time goofing around in the…

Many people divorce because of the stress associated with having an unhealthy child or partner. Health is hereditary. They may also divorce more frequently if they're poor, alcoholic, etc. All those things get passed along to children and all those things are risk factors for health problems.

@dal20402: I love the idea of someone with a Volvo slamming American cars for being poorly built. I've known lots of people with fast Volvos, and none of them would describe their cars as reliable.

Shirvell is not stalking UoM. He's stalking Armstrong. Banning him from the campus does nothing to protect Armstrong that a restraining order can't do (indeed, considerably less once Armstrong's off campus). Barring him from the UoM campus is akin to banning him from an entire city. You're basically cutting him…

Matt, I came across a new site the other day: www.tumblr.com

@minjin: People have been distressing and applying patinas for as long as relics and antiques have been valued. ie, most of recorded history. This is not new.

@Dougiefresh91: ? Lowering tire pressure is common practice among off roaders, even on modern radials. Why do you suppose that is?

Having grown up around a lot of old English sports cars, I'll pass. My Miata cost $2700 with a hard top and 55K on the clock. This car's *only* advantage are its English good looks, which are horribly marred (not atypically for a Brit) by the hideous lumps on the nose and the ass.

@KillerRaccoon: You get about a 50/50 mix of people telling you you're the best dad on earth, and people telling you that you're the most horrible dad on earth. Everyone has an opinion when a baby seat comes out of a 20 year old miata...

@joshl: 2004, dude.

The 3 year old enjoys it more, but I figured the newborn should get a taste before winter (and before the roll bar wrap arrived...ugliness since remedied).

Does this make all large cuts of BBQ unsafe? Every piece of BBQ pulled pork or brisket you've had has spent anywhere from maybe 6 to 24 hours at temperatures around 225F, although it's held there for a loooooooong time.

"TSA, naturally, believes they are safe and meat "

It's a pity that people like him make it to the top. Every town over a hundred thousand people has a handful of artists just as talented as Kanye that simply haven't gotten as lucky.

Hard to argue with that list.

@Dab O' Swine: You can't say the TSA could do it "better and less intrusively", but you *can* say that their current methods are no better than the non-intrusive ones they used before. It'd be easy to prove with auditing. If they can't show that their invasive search procedures are making me safer, why are they…

You can keep your turbocharged audi wagons. This is moar RWD and cooler than the E39. Make mine one with the S38B38, thanks. Oh, and give me a couple spare motors, 'cause I can't afford rebuilds on those things.

He's wrong on a lot of stuff, particularly the ideal relationship between government and industry. He's made cars less fun. He jumped the shark a decade or two ago. He gave Bush the White House.

@arahman56: The iPhone has had a glass screen for as long as it has existed, as do most phones of that form factor. No plastic is scratch resistant enough.