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Actually, the cost of an average new car as a percentage of median family income is, I'm almost certain, as low as it has ever been. Certainly, it is as low as it has been in the last 30 years or so....

Shady,

I too try to take care in the terms that I use, but I am probably more in the language-is-descriptive-rather-than-prescriptive school of thought about how we use terms than you may be. Not...

Shady,

I think you missed my point, which was that what 'true Communism' is on paper is almost irrelevant - what is relevant is what it has been in practice. I am also fully aware that Communism...

RB,

I think your argument that Eastern Europe was never Communist is a wrong one. A socio-economic system like Communism is not just defined by an abstract theory - it is defined by how it is...

To address the parts of the OP's post that pertain to the subject line, if not to all of the body [[no time for long replies now), I don't know how marriage of any kind can be considered 'natural' as...

Peachlaser,

What are the connections [[I'm guessing you mean similarities?) that you see? I spent 10 years in Detroit and 16 in Atlanta [[albeit only 6 of those as an adult) and seeing similarities...

Hudkina,

I knew what Delta meant - I was just being silly.

O.

Detroit must have made it if it migrated from the midwest to the east coast :)

O.

Bats,

The current and previous-genertion Libertys are sold as Cherokees in most of the rest fo the world, but in the US, the Cherokee that was discontinued in the early 2000s or so was the same...

FWIW, the Cherokee was created by AMC, not Chrysler.

O.

Oladub,

Good post - but it may have had more complexity in it than bats can handle in one post ;)

O.

Slimshady,

"left libertarian" is an old descriptor, not something that Bats made up off the top of his head. perhaps you can do some research to learn what it means, eh?

O.

Clearly, everyone who disagrees with you is "go[[ing) wrong" and mentally defective to boot :)

O.

Looks like someone woke up on the nativist-jingoist side of the bed this morning! :)

O.

CK,

It sounds like you're referring to my post, so I'll reply. I did not have the text of your post in front of me when I wrote. I didn't remember whether you referred exclusively to specific...

I was going to say something like 'a bunch of cars that someone like Angry Dad wouldn't drive' but since AD has a Lotus, I will at least mention my Fiat Spider. :)

the 90s Elans don't get much...

If there are any travesties, it is that the other people, real or hypothetical, that you mentioned are in jail, not that she isn't.

O.

Darwinism'c comment about small cars is a common sentiment in the US, and a large part of why small cars have occupied a relatively small part of the market. Not all markets think the same way about...

"Home On The Range" in Japanese, with a pedal steel and yodeling.

O.

Ray,

Not so hard!

http://thenehrings.com/funny/Car%20loaded%20with%20plywood.jpg

;)

O.

I also liked the Parts Galore on the east side [[they have another yard on W. Warren), though it's the only yard I've been to. I don't remember seeing much in the way of old Mopar cars, though. They...

The bizarro dealer hours are a Michigan-only thing. I found it sort of inexplicable when I first moved to MI that most dealers were open mostly only when people at work. Seriously, who's going to...

Bats,

Your next assignment will be to show how Don Quixote and La Recherche de Bon Temps Perdu reinforce capitalist principles.

You have a remarkably single-minded view of, well, everything, it...

Pup, I later read the LAT article linked, and I can see your point in his case. I do not see a conflict of interest [[Friendman is an op-ed writer for the NYT, not a reporter) but accepting the...

Bats,

Not sure if you're responding to my post or another one, but sounds like maybe it's mine.

No, VEBA is not "organized labor" either. Do you know what VEBA is and what its function is? Do...