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My wife and I drink a martini every afternoon for the same reason . . . haven't been sick once in the last 10 years! Don't argue with science.

There would be a good thread to start . . . what is the nature of genius and why does it seem to reside in a single field? Why are geniuses quite often the most foolish people outside their own field?

I think I get where you're coming from. I have two cars, my wife's car, a BMW M3 for when I want to DRIVE!!, and my car, a Toyota RAV4, when I just want to get from here to there, and haul and few things. There's nothing wrong with either pick and, to be honest, we spend most of the time in the...

While I think Trump will win re-election, especially against Bernie, I believe we'll be surprised by the amount of support Bernie gets, especially in places likes California and Massachusetts. Too many of our youth are being taught that capitalism is a dirty word.

Yet other European car companies have made it here (in Southern California it seems every other car is a BMW or Mercedes). I think it's interesting that so many car companies have managed to sell a lot of cars in the US; Japan, Korea, Germany, England, and Italy, though the last two are not...

Irrational? I've always liked a manual transmission because it makes the driver a more integral part of the driving experience. I admit it is possible that I am irrational, ask my wife, ;). I am also leery of the multiple automatic features being added to cars: lane minders, attention alerts...

I think the Tesla truck may be another category, the cartoon vehicle. You might imagine drawing it (if you drew badly), but seeing it in real life seems absurd. I remember the first time I saw a Chrysler 300, its massive, over-muscled body topped by a tiny, squashed roof/windows, looked like...

Exotics are, of course, not practical (why would they be?). I remember a Top Gear show where, after filming a Ferrari, Lambo and McLaren in the Louvre courtyard, to avoid scraping off the cars' low-hanging front bumpers, the team had to build ramps to get the cars out on to the street. My wife's...

I have to admit being disappointed that no one wanted to talk about why a particular car might be seen as male or female. Is there a feature that makes you think that way, or is it performance, or is it function? My take is that there are at least four categories of cars, male, female, infant...

My father was always a quiet "sober" man, in both meanings of the word. He drank, but never showed it. My mom, on the other hand (bless her heart), was always the life of the party. I still remember joining my parents for some party, I can' imagine why I was invited, and after some drinking...

Yeah, that was my thought . . . And the last thing I want to do is get in a back and forth about what some candidate said (or really meant).

I am an atheist, full stop. But . . . I have the greatest respect for believers. The smartest, nicest person I ever knew was a devout Catholic. How could I call believers stupid or deceived with him as an example?

The French burned a lot of bridges (is that the right metaphor?) with the truly awful cars they exported to the US during the early VW Bug craze. The Renault Dauphine is a prime example. Those kind of cars did not survive contact with American highways. The French automakers have never really...

Stop, you'll make me blush . . . As far as why there are no more feminine lines in auto designs, per what I tried to say above, somehow we consumers changed. What we used to accept as simply beautiful (the XKE) is now rejected as not masculine enough. The circa 2000 Jaguar sold poorly as did...

It's interesting that Volvos, when they were ugly, were the favorite rides of college professors and social radicals. When they got pretty Volvo lost this audience, who now prefer Subarus (they're funky, you know).

In the past, if I may, feminine was defined by how the body contours of the car matched those of a woman. Thus a Jaguar XKE was feminine because its quarter panels mimicked the curve of a woman's breasts and posterior. I hope no one thinks that's sexist . . . The sharp creases in current...

I believe many of the Roman gods were original creations, but they subsequently got associated with Greek gods; Minerva and Athena for instance. Greek culture just over powered the Roman. I think Mars was originally a Roman god of agriculture and only later became a war god, like Ares. I've...

Interesting subject. I'm fond of a wide range of liqours but my wife likes gin, so winter/fall it's martinis or gibsons (I love pickled onions) and spring/summer it's bombay and tonic, usually with lemon (it's a great time to be a gin lover with a multitude of new small batch concoctions...

I think it's interesting how our ideas of feminine and masculine have changed. The original Jaguar XKE was and is considered one of the most beautiful cars ever designed. It was brought back in around 2000, in a larger format, but was considered too feminine in appearance (sold poorly?) and was...

Is that a humble brag? . . . :)