I agree with everything you said, btw

No, that is the rose-tinted version of the past. The reality of Watergate was that the FBI was at war with the White House; Deep Throat (Mark Felt) himself was up to his eyeballs in corruption, having overseen COINTELPRO, and later convicted for it. Deep Throat was funneling information to Woodward and Bernstein for selfish political purposes.

Supposed hard-nosed "investigative journalist" Woodward now makes his living as a conduit for White House insiders who want to get their white-washed version of history into his hagiographic "behind the scenes" books. He is a total tool of the American political elite.

Right on, exactly what I was thinking, wish I had some mod points.

You know, there is this party called the Democratic Party? There is no "Democrat Party". I get tired of this, it is a mix of laziness and Republican school-yard taunting.

Please take a look at any of the major liberal blogs, such as Firedoglake.com or dailykos.com, and see how much cheerleading for Obama's assassination programs is happening. You won't find any; in fact you will find much criticism. OK, there was some cheering when Bin Laden was killed, but I recall there was also some angst over how it was done.

Liberals are held hostage; there is no liberal party to vote for, only a choice between the lesser of two evils. And the lesser evil is clearly the Democrats.

No, the Paula Jones lawyers (who were being payed by the billionaire-funded "Arkansas Project"), committed some ethical violation in sharing information about Lewinski with the Ken Starr lawyers. They wouldn't have known what questions to ask Clinton without that (and also, the information Linda Tripp dug up by pretending to be Lewinski's friend whilst secretly taping their phone conversations).

AD&D? Bah, we all play with our original 3-booklet D&D rules. We are still trying to find a copy of Chainmail though.

I didn't buy a Prius because I expected positive ROI via reduced spending on gas. It is a great car (kind of like a sized-up Honda CRX), and by using less gas, I'm causing less environmental damage. That said, after applying the rebates available at the time (both federal and state), my Prius only ended up costing about $3000 more than a equivalent non-hybrid. And if I had my shit together, I would have gotten one of those "drive in the carpool lane" stickers, before they ran out.

We own a 8 year old Prius, we get slightly over 40 MPG, something the author claims is difficult. When the car was newer, we got over 42 MPG.

To get a steady 40 MPG (let alone 50 MPG) out of any hybrid -- and I have driven all of them, extensively -- you must keep your speed under 50 MPH and treat the accelerator as if it were a Fabergé egg.

We drive on freeways like everyone else, routinely driving 70-80 MPH. I'm not a lead-foot accelerator, but I drive like most people. I don't practice any exotic hyper-miling techniques.

There are also hills. Hybrids work best on a perfectly horizontal plane.

We also happen to live at the top of a large, steep hill (Berkeley Hills), which we go up and down every day. And yet we still get 40+ MPG, unpossible! The hybrid engine is great for recapturing some of the potential energy that would otherwise be lost.

What I remember from accidentally using OpenJDK a few years ago... Apache Tomcat, one of the most popular servlet containers, did not work with OpenJDK. The first thing I do with any Linux server is remove OpenJDK and install the latest Sun (now Oracle) version of Java.

I don't know what the incompatibility was, and maybe they have fixed it by now. But I don't care enough about "freedom" to bother with OpenJDK.