I recently bought a Chevrolet Aveo5 manual transmission. It gets 38 mpg on the highway, is affordable, nice looking, seats five, and moves a lot of stuff stowed through the hatchback with the seats down. It gets a lot of positive comments and I'm seeing more of these on the road.

BUT, this isn't a Detroit car—it's a rebadged captive import GM Daewoo Kalos made in Bupyong. And I bought mine pre-owned, so that didn't help GM out any.

If GM does go into bankruptcy I wonder what compensation those of us with warranties will get. I'm guessing "none" is a pretty safe answer.

Too bad the "Big Three" have forgotten how to make subcompacts in the States. There's still a lot of Geo Metros on the in with 200K+ miles on them. Those had the GM M platform and were manufactured in North America. If they could make them in the '80s and '90s why can't they dust off the old blueprints, update them to modern times and build the dang things? GM has been making cars alongside Toyota in Fremont since 1962 in their NUMMI plant.

Making nice little cars is not exactly a black art. These automakers have the wherewithal, the knowledge, the technology, the designs, the tools, everything they need. What is wrong with them?

List price is $89.99, on sale for $53.94 on Amazon, until recently it was offered there for only $25 for several days! I snapped it up at the low price.

This is a toy that you will find just as cool as your cats do. Put it in guard or autonomous mode and watch it chase your cats or your cats chase it. The interactions make for lots of youtube moments.

He can't be executed because there is no evidence he murdered anyone. Death penalty for assault (including rape) was abolished by SCOTUS many years ago now. As should all death penalty. Hasn't the government sanctioned enough violence?

But again, no sympathy for Graner. And again, shoddy journalism. He made his bed. His lockup conditions may be inhumane and may not be warranted, but he didn't get 29 months in lockup for forgetting soap. The man is a violent, unrepentant sociopath.

Your beloved Charles is still behind bars because he sexually and physically tortured helpless detainees. He should be in bars much longer than 27 months for such an act, as should his superiors. And if karma really was a son of a gun, you would be too. Is it that hard to figure that out?

1. Graner was regularly emailing the abuse photos together with sadistic descriptions of his role to his family. Yet all we get is a warm-and-fuzzy softball questions for them? They are responsible for this too. Yes he was family, but he was a little Eichmann in the family. They should have reported him or blown the whistle. Did they even tell him to stop?

If they had blown the whistle they might have not only stopped and prevented the torture of many Iraqi detainees but might have prevented Graner from getting anywhere near the level of punishment he ended up with. Failing to act in this case is not a crime but is morally repugnant.

2. Graner was in SHU. You are not sentenced to serve in an SHU (that would be "cruel and unusual"). You are put there for administrative purposes. The article rightfully bemoans the rigid SHU conditions, but does nothing to inquire as to how he got there. It only takes at face value his self-reported statement that it was for having one too many magazines or forgetting a bar of soap. This I find beyond belief, especially from a brutal man with a proven history of brutalizing those under his control.

I don't know much about military prisons. I do know in civilian lockup SHU is generally given to those who are so violent that they are out of control or those with a persistent history of serious infractions. SHU is abused and there are terrible cases of mentally ill individuals who are kept in SHU for years without treatment. But here we have no explanation. Salon does not have his disciplinary records and does not report that it even tried to obtain them. If it did I am willing to bet the farm that he's not in lockup for dropping the soap.

No sympathy for Graner here. I don't have that much sympathy to go around.

in the Oklahoma case at least. They picked a weak theory of invasion of privacy when the law in Oklahoma was not settled in that context. Surely they could have done better. A crotch-shot of this type involving a 16-year-old girl is certainly child pornography as defined under federal law, and would violate a host of federal crimes. Is Oklahoma's criminal code so backwards?

Agree with serai--if this "cartoon," as you call it, isn't the best Hollywood film of the year, what is? Tropic Thunder? Hulk? This hasn't exactly been a stand-out year in cinema, and I don't think "best of the year" is terribly hyperbolic in this context. Best of the century, maybe, or best animated film ever, but I haven't been hearing those.

You've largely missed the point on this film. It was artsy, cute, and beautiful at the same time while delivering a powerful but mostly non-preachy (show don't tell) message on the environment, consumption, and overpopulation, the last two being topics that are pretty much off-limits in the American media as a whole, to say nothing of animated films.

But pat yourself on the back Andy, you're better than all that cartoony stuff.