“Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.”

—Robert Heinlein

They added a definition of the word as an adjective meaning "alert to racial or social discrimination and injustice".

Republicans in LBJ's day did not typically march in party lockstep like they do now. Most of them would be painted as socialists by today's Republican party.

Or any more than you can have a right to force other people to pay for your defense. Or your collective ease of travel. So, in order to make this a "free society", you would privatize the military, fire, police, interstate highway system, and every other shared service we pay for collectively, right? No public parks, no public streets, no free education? Yeah, sounds like the kind of paradise that can only appeal to a true, freedom-seeking, Ayn-Rand-worshipping sociopath. Most people recognize that there are things which, when we pay for them collectively, benefit us individually. That's how we ended up with a regulated capitalist economy with some services handled by the commons. All proponents of health care reform want is for us to add health care to that commons, since for-profit health insurance is fundamentally flawed, and every other country with a standard of living meeting (or exceeding) ours has already realized this.

Actually, a lot can fit in a Prius. They are quite roomy.

I'm afraid that Merriam-Webster, Wiktionary, OED, and many, many writers of British English would disagree.

In British English—or, as the British say, "English"—"learned" is used in phrases such as "a learned professor", in which case it is pronounced with two syllables.
Either "learnt" or "learned" are used interchangably in phrases like "I learnt a valuable lesson today".

I'd hate to think that the sole litmus test for any scientific endeavor would become "is there any money in it".

True. I've never had reason to fault their build quality -- though I understand that others have -- but they do seem to place user serviceability waaaaay down on their list of priorities. The MacBook is a newer physical design than the Pro, so maybe they're changing. Then again, one point doesn't make a trend. Guess we'll have to wait for a MacBook Pro refresh to find out...