I hate to break it to you, but Smart cars have been on sale in Canada for a couple of years now. There are loads of them tootling about the streets of Vancouver, and they seem to do just fine out on the freeway too.

Personally, I think the Fortwo is daft, but they make a nifty four-door and a really nice looking sports car.

But the best show OF ALL TIME???

What about (here we go)... Northern Exposure? Lou Grant? The Smothers Comedy Brothers Hour...?

Mr Blumenthal and countless others have been writing articles like this for years now. I can't imagine anyone who frequents this web site disagrees with any of them.

And yet, nothing changes...

JFK was murdered on 22 November 1963 -- not the 23rd.

This Orientalist discourse, he maintained, is racist, condescending, controlling, dehumanizing, feminizing and "essentialist"...

I haven't read Orientalism, but I wonder if someone could explain what Said meant by "feminizing", and why that particular word would be lumped in with all those negatives?

If you really want to OWN a copy, go to Amazon and pay your $495, but if you just want to READ it...

http://www.whitehouse.org/administration/lynne-cheney-sisters-complete.pdf

And maybe our own views about capital punishment cloud our thinking here, but the news of how Saddam will be killed -- by hanging -- suggests just how far Iraq has to go before it's the hopeful, modern society Bush used to promise it would be.

You make it sound like a lethal injection would be acceptable. Whatever the method -- they're all barbaric. The American-sponsored regime in Baghdad is in no position to try anyone for crimes against humanity.

Not Maher Amar or Amer or whatever you called him.