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Geez. This gets loopier and loopier every time some butt stoopid nitwit blogs about it, and then people read it, and because they read it on the Internet, by golly it must be true! HR 1388 was passed, and signed into law by Obama on April 21, 2009, but it's got nothing, nothing whatsoever, not...

The true meaning of this holiday is for the surviving comrades of Union soldiers to honor those who died during the Civil War by decorating their graves with flowers and other decorations. That's it. It was called Decoration Day until after WW II when the more fitting Memorial Day was used by...

Looks like I get to enjoy Memorial Day weekend two years in a row in beautiful Laredo. Weather forecast this year is the same as last year, too, triple digits, abundant sunshine.

The Detroiter is pretty crappy, and they no longer give you a $2 shower with any fuel purchase (used to be any amount, but now it's like 50 gallons or someting) but the people who work there are nice, and they have free Internet powered by OnTime Media. Yay! And like Cruzer said, there's a...

That was a little uncalled for, wasn't it?

...which Doug would then take personally.

The Supreme Court screwed the pooch on that one when they said "no establish of religion" meant, essentially, no acknowledgment of religion and a complete lack of religion. Like you said, it was put in there to prevent the establishment of a State Religion, not to disavow any and all religions...

No, Doug, they really aren't a violation of the rules. No one is attacking you personally. It is your ideas, philosophies and methods that are being attacked, and ridiculed. If you're going to put yourself out there and take a public stance in a public forum, you have to be able to take the...

The difference is, in post after post Doug has gone on and on about how, essentially, if there was no religion that the world would be a better place, and has scorned religion and the religious. In order to be consistent and not hypocritical, he would therefore have to scorn the reactions of...

Well, they gave him a standing ovation when he was introduced, but everyone always stands when the President of the United States is introduced, so I'm not sure how much you can read into that, especially if you read the entire article. And considering your position on religion, calling students...

It's about fifteen grand a pint whether it's going to the Space Station, the Moon or to Mars. If you can cut the amount of water needed to lug up and store by 50-65%, that's huge. That weight, and space, can be used for other things. NASA doesn't exist solely to make life better or cheaper for...

It costs about $15,000 a pint to ship water into space, then there's the storage problem. And yet it wasn't. The private sector has had a long time to develop this, yet they didn't. There isn't any immediate return on investment because they wouldn't have been developing it with profitability as...

I agree completely, Leo. Keeping track of other trucks is import when the fleet is self-positioning, but also in keeping moral up.

"Wow that's amazing - how many millions went into this one?" A scant $350 million. Cheap at twice the price. Took 10 years to develop, in a partnership between NASA and Michigan Tech University. The basic idea is the same, but distillation is a little different in a weightless environment. On...

Cheers! Crew drinks up recycled urine in space. HOUSTON - At the international space station, it was one small sip for man and a giant gulp of recycled urine for mankind. Astronauts aboard the space station celebrated a space first on Wednesday by drinking water that had been recycled from...

I've been hit once out here. I was sound asleep when it hit, and I was sure that I'd been run over by a snow plow or something. Newp, just yer average Walmart shopping cart, flying from one side of the parking lot to another, uphill, aided by 50 MPH winds off a frozen Georgian Bay in Midland...

Hey, you get what you pay for. You pay nothing, you get worthless in return. We're not a marketing and consulting firm here, ya know.

Starting a new carrier in this economic climate. Okay. How about Seppuku Expedited?

Too funny. :D A few years ago I went to renew registration and plates for the car, and got new plates, an Environmental plate, one with the bobcat on it. The number on the plate was 00666. I just looked at her and said, "You've got to be kidding."

The first major overhaul of the boards the solicited no input from drivers, and ended up with a Charlie Foxtrot that necessitated massive input from drivers, so they made some changes, but still left the boards in fine Charlie Foxtrot fashion. Based on that experience, you would think that...