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Cringely:

My Davis is an all-aluminum two-seater with an 85-horsepower engine. The engine was built in 1946, the plane in 1982, and the whole thing cost under $4,000 at the time, though today I have more than that invested in the instrument panel alone. The plane weighs 625 lbs. empty, 1125 lbs. loaded, has a top speed of 140 miles per hour and can travel about 600 miles on its 24-gallon fuel tank.

Why can't I buy a car like that?

The common belief is that the GOP favors the rich and the Democrats favor the middle class and poor. In reality, the GOP favors small business and entreprenours while the Dems favor big business and big unions. The Dems are favored by the very rich (> $30M). If you've been around a while, you know why:

I miss my RX-7:

AP on the Chuck Norris appearance below:

That's what the local newsradio guy here in Seattle said about the reaction to Joe Torre leaving the Yankees. I prefer FireJoeMorgan.com:

lboros at Viva El Birdos sums up the case for letting Eckstein walk:

Finally, if you add the wage loss of $350 billion to the net [GDP] gain of $30 billion, you get how much employers benefit--almost $400 billion. Of course, some of the gains made by employers eventually trickle down to consumers. But surely employers must keep an important portion: why else would they spend so much trying to lobby Congress for a never-ending supply of cheap labor?

Sarkozy is suggesting that France should pay immigrants to leave.

They're talking about $8000 per family. If Robert Rector is correct (PDF) in saying that low-skilled immigrants cost a net of $20,000 per year, then we could afford to offer even more.

Q How cynical do you think Gore is?

Divorces are never a time for celebration.

Cameron Mills blames fans that expect too much. I agree that there are a number of people with very strange priorities (if you can raise $5 million in 48 hours to buy out a basketball coach, you need to straighten some things out), but — in spite of what I've said before — Cameron is wrong.