It's like the game of telephone, meaning gets lost. The original statement (Al Jazeera) was: " a sixth of all Asian-Americans share just 30 surnames and 50 percent of minorities share common last names, versus 30 percent of whites"

I didn't realize that's how the ratchet shifter worked; I guess I never encountered one. You learn something new everyday! I will say that visually the one from the article looks just like what was in my grandmother's mid-80s car, which definitely wasn't a ratchet.

It may look the same but it's not. Apparently after selecting your gear, the shifter *returns to the center position*. If you're in park, the shifter is in the center, if you're in drive, the shifter is in the center position. Poor UI if you ask me.

No problem. Simply search for the Virgina Battle Flag and you still find it. Censoring is still a bad move, but at least they're doing it halfheartedly.

Here's another source, perhaps more reputable than the DailyCaller

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/oct/25/armed-agents-seize-records-reporter-washington-tim/

20 minutes in line, where I could see about half of the voting machines screens in use. I couldn't quite tell what people were voting, but if I had better eyesight I probably could have. Maryland is still using the hackable, no paper trail Diebold Accuvote touchscreen machines.

It's important to note that polycarbonate is *not* used to line food cans; that is normally done by epoxy resins. It is true that epoxies are often made using BPA, but equating the risk of BPA from polycarbonate to the risk from epoxies, is simply an incorrect knee-jerk reaction.

Anyone else get a Verizon Wireless ad when trying to read the article?

That's delicious irony.

Where do you live?

Most places I've been to in the US have no tax on unprepared food (ie grocery stores), and always have taxes on books.

Also, in some states (like PA), there is no tax on clothes since they are necessities.

So 1 for 3 isn't that bad... in baseball.

The Iliad is pretty sweet. The eInk people came by last year to give a seminar and brought a Sony eReader, an Illiad and a prototype color eInk display. The sony version was the least cool.