That's rather an overstatement, isn't it? Somehow I cannot see Rush being a handful down there...

So let me get this straight: you've dropped your phone and was upset that it was damaged. You've left it in a car hot enough to kill you but are annoyed that your phone was affected. There was one that "got a little damp" (as in, got wet?) and again stopped working perfectly. This is all clearly Apple's fault, right? Wrong.

I can see writing an article about the real problems with the iPhone: that if you don't have the latest one you can't have voice dial (when Apple is headquartered in a state that requires hands-free), or any of the 47 little things it forced me to learn to do rather than just do the way that I want. I can see writing about the Genius Bar, where sometimes you can be treated as if you were a four-year old with ADD and limited eye-hand coordination. I can even see complaining about AT&T and their coverage-from-hell. However complaining "I dropped it in the toilet/ran over it/ inadvertently baked it in a pie and it ceased to function so it sucks" isn't a consumer complaint, it's a whinge..

Free is more popular that pay. Who saw that coming?

She's evil for calling the murder of Shepard a "hoax" in front of his mother. The fact Judy Shepard managed not to at least spit on this despicable creature is a testament to her nature. Personally I wanted to throw up.

So what if we all just don't answer anything in the census? It will make some interesting reading when the population of West Hollywood and Chelsea is listed as 12.

I think we should all give a buck to the Obama campaign for every time McCain says "My Friends" in the next debate. Like a drinking game without the lethal hangover...

Well, why shouldn't we go from a President who can't speak to one that can't count?

You replaced antique hardware with Office Depot.

You deserve a straight son!

I didn't know that. Madonna's bony, veined hands turned me to man-on-man love. Glad to have that one cleared up for me.

I totally agree on "Partner Yoga". I actually quit a series of classes when they decided this was the new best thing. I'm sorry, I know I have issues but if I am going to be having some strangers sweaty junk all up in my grill then I need to do it the old-fashioned way: by picking them up in a dark bar.

What makes you think the church wants your daughter to indulge in that?

I would love it if that holiday could be imported here- can we do it beyond music? The last bastion of relative silence for me, the Los Angeles Metro bus system, has been invaded by something called "TransitTV", blathering out an endless stream of ads for clearing your credit card debt, quizzes, cheesy two-minute cooking shows and once in a blue moon, the news. I've gotten to the point where I have to use my own iPod to tune out the blather.

A day without someone else's soundtrack? Heaven!

Automakers could make the Smart car irrelevant in about 5 minutes by bringing in Diesel variants of the small cars they already sell here: Toyota's Yaris diesel gets over 50 mpg, and there is a Diesel Aveo in the offing. Of course those don't have the Prada Sneaker level of hipness that the ForTwo has, but they do have a backseats.

When I plunked down $1500 of so for my Key Lime iBook SE with the optional 20 gig hard drive my co-workers laughed that I would never fill it. Now my iTunes library is on an external drive and an iPhone would load slowly (since I have USB 1.0), but the coomuter itself is still running OS 10.4 like a champ, and hasn't given me a real reason to buy a new iBook other than wanting one.

Meanwhile at work I've gone through four PCs.

In Southern California, a used Prius that has the permits to use the carpool lane with a solo driver carries a $5000 premium over ones that do not. It does beg the question though, since these hybrids are using regenerative braking, wouldn't it make more sense for them to be in the stop-and-go traffic and the Hummer to be in the HOV lane, where it might crack 10 MPG at a steady 55?

As for Detroit turning it's back on eco-friendly cars, I believe that GM is committed to building the Volt by 2010, and are building hybrid versions of the Malibu and the bug SUV's. It would be nice if everyone did like me and took the bus to work, a Flex-car hybrid to meetings offsite if needed and my Civic only when I am going to be out too late to take 3 buses home. But some people can't do that. If they can get a Suburban that will haul their soccer team and CostCo trips AND get decent gas mileage isn't that a good thing?

and when there's a replay of the hurricane of '36 we'll be giggling into our non-fat soy lattes that his fat a$$ was washed into Long Island sound.