Still, they have less loose trash than we have. Part of the explaination, I believe, is the fact that England has no trees, and therefore no paper.

When you go to a restaurant in England, they give you one (1) little bargain-style napkin (they call them, "serviettes"; in England "napkin" means, "diaper"). Even if you are eating messy food, that's all you get.

In England, they started the no-trash-can policy about fifteen years ago. Since then, nobody has left a bomb in a trash can in England, because they have no trash cans.

However, in the USA, we have had trash cans everywhere, for that whole period. And, how many bombs have been left in American trash cans during that time? Answer: Zero.

So.... Bullet-proof electronic ten-ton compressor/recycler trash cans may be one of those things that cause future generations to laugh at us, when they look back.

Short people rock!

Poster EconCCX, did you invent it? Cheers to whoever invented it!

Alan Keyes is a wonderful public speaker, head and shoulders above and beyond any other big-time political figure. Barack gets praise for his speaking, but Barack is just a semi-pro speaker. Alan is Babe Ruth or Doctor J or Jim Brown.

Alan just needs to get out of politics, and use his talent and expertise in speaking somewhere else. TV? The church? Somewhere other than politics.

What opportunities do short or small people get, where they have an advantage over tall people? The obvious answer is as jockeys.

What else? There must be others. I am not looking for joke answers here. I just cannot think of many real answers.

...And, earlier I posted something wrong about the Cleveland Barons. Until just now, I had no idea that the Barons ever played in the NHL.

The North American auto companies still sell more pickups than any other car model. These trucks still have an important place in the product mix. SUVs no, but trucks yes.

Many people need pickups for their jobs. The only thing we can do is step up efforts toward 30 MPG pickups and plug-in pickups.

Have you heard of Christian Aviation? I had a temp job working with a guy who was a student at the Grand Rapids School of the Bible and Music (GRSBM, "Grizbim," since renamed Cornerstone University or some such).

I asked this guy what he was majoring in. He responded, "Christian Aviation." I laughed, but he did not get it. Turns out he really was getting a college degree in supporting missionaries who need to fly over jungles and around mountains in order to spread the Gospel.

Andrew, you covered quite a number of topics in this post. Wow! Good job. Please keep on posting.

Back when the original Cleveland Browns were great, they really were great. If you are too young to remember Jim Brown, there is no way I can describe how great he was. And, the whole USA was different. Browns quaterback Frank Ryan lived a block down our street, and Sudden Sam McDowell lived nearby, in our ordinary neighborhood.

When I write "our," I mean us regular American neighborhood kids, who now are getting grandchildren, starting second-downsizing careers, well-retired, nearing the end of long prison sentences, or so on.

When sports stars used to live in regular neighborhoods, championships belonged to regular people.

P.S. What the heck are you doing including the Cleveland Barons with major league teams? By that logic, you could say the the West Michigan Whitecaps (single A) make Grand Rapids the greatest sports town in world history. Wrong.

And cute is good. It is not the only kind of good, but it is one valid good thing. Tall can be bad. Have you ever met a tall person who does not play basketball, and who is sick and tired of being asked about basketball, every day, by every single person he or she meets?

A short person in the land of the tall is king or queen. These gross nasty drugs are much worse than being short. The great love of my life was short and beautiful. If she had been an inch and a half taller, she would have been an inch and a half less beautiful.

Please stop with this child abuse.

Did you even know this game was on tonight? Ignominious, preposterous, dopey.

So long, baseball.

During Obama's speech, they play the last few innings???? Am I hering this right?

On what channel? Philly wins???? Odd. Kooky. Bye-bye.

No big deal, but entertaining. Nothing anybody might complain about.

Both sides could have left the tax cut issue behind after Clinton. They still would have found plenty of issues to dispute. Everything would be much better now.

But, no. The Republicans just had to keep it up, because they do not understand any real issues. We in the USA are dead. No chance of statesmanship now, only suicidal tax cuts ad infinitum.

The divide is where the accent changes. That is the middle of Ohio, the Michigan/Indiana border, and so on. Well north of Kentucky.

This is a thought-inducer for Americans, and an info point for Salonistas from other countries, who do not know our intricacies.

McCain is full of bull. Obama means well. Just vote for Obama. He probably would screw up much less often than McCain would screw up.

Big inspiration. (oof.) Please just vote and hope for better.

Isn't America great? Hanging chads and hanging effigies. Seriously folks, lynch-humor is back in vogue. Lighten up.

Or? Inquiring noses want to know.

...compared with other recent World Series games. But, King K. and I appear to be the only two people from anywhere other than Tampa and Philadelphia who still care, still watch.

Start the whole World Series earlier in October, with drastically shorter playoffs, to retain fan interest. Nothing we can do about the 8:30 pm EDT game starts. That is only 5:30 pm on the West Coast. Most of you guys still are stuck in traffic at 5:30 pm, no?