That is totally not what I meant by "go pound sand."

"The mindset of drawing battle lines in terms of 'right' and 'left' is what has allowed politicians to move steadily into lobbyist pockets (like hermit crabs) for the past 30 years"

The mindset of viewing money as speech, and thus allowing 0.05 percent of the citizenry of the US to fund all political campaigns is what has moved our critters into the lobbyists pockets. The only practical solution to this is to legislate that all elections are State-funded, and any outside money found in any campaign is the end of that campaign. The problem is, how do you legislate this when the 0.05 percent of the citizenry currently funding campaigns opposes such reform quite loudly with their billions of dollars worth of "speech?"

I hear Zynga will be hiring soon.

Just out of curiosity, what else would you grown a beard with? Bees?

VW, Mercedes and BMW would take issue with that (incorrect) assertion. The sole reason most manufacturers don't sell their diesel cars in the US (this includes GM and Ford) is the perception that Americans won't buy them. A lie that should have been put to rest by the success of VW with their newer common-rail TDIs.

The only dancing the current Iranian government would ever want to see from the Shahs would be at the end of a rope.

That's the crusty, weathered December 2009 issue tucked into the back of the magazine rack in the basement men's room, isn't it?

Boner pills are a *great* example of drug companies profiting from publicly-funded research. Robert Furchgott at SUNY Downstate laid the foundation for this class of drug with his NIH-funded research. He won the Nobel for his work. But Pharma got the profits.

Fly car - must be the Fiat former fly girl J Lo is driving these days.

Dear crispy jeezus, really? You might want to take a remedial civics class yourself. DOJ is an Executive Branch office, run by an Obama-appointed cunt by the name of Eric Holder.

They are also in a very real sense our government. So what's your point?

A TDI will not last long on WVO. Biodiesel? Fine. Mostly. But WVO eats VW high pressure injection pumps for breakfast, and engines for lunch. Old Mercedes are much better for WVO. Those things will run on anything.

WTF is that? Rambo's homosexual African-American cousin, or some kind of Jewish holiday?

I think the word you're looking for is rochambeau.

Ron Paul does not want to start a war with Iran for no good reason, therefore he is unelectable.

Me gusta flautas!