BryanS

Finally, a common sense policy. Pay by the pound! ... You and your luggage get on the scale, and then out comes the price. Slide your Visa or MasterCard and done. You want to bring 4 bags? Go for it! 1 bag? No problem! If the bean counters are running amok now... I say just go all out and do it. Charge by total poundage.

AirTran fights back: ...but at the end of the day... airlines that try to compete with Southwest only seek their own destruction. 37 consecutive years of profitability.

Buy it for 46K. Don't put a dime into it. Turn it into a rent house. And we're done.

no...yes...no...yes... tow trucks... HPD... Place seems like too much trouble, to even bother.

Ruggles. The place you see down the street, after you're done eating at Baba Yega's. "Glad I didn't go there - looks like a parking nightmare" ... 12 years in Houston... never been, still have no desire to go.

2010 may be the last Saab ever made. Good riddance to a pathetic, European car maker. http://www.marketwatch.com/story/gm-totals-saab-2009-12-18 Destruction derby GM scraps once-proud Saab Several top government officials rushed to Trollhattan, home of Saab since its inception in the 1930s, to assure factory workers, suppliers and the community at large that all is not lost, though it's far from clear to anybody right now what can be saved. Hey Sweeden! Screwballs! Why don't you buy Saab, yourselves?! Because nobody wants it. Not even anyone in Sweeden.

It's amazing how we play God with mother nature. Beaver? OK. Nutria: Kill it. Poor nutrias. All they are trying to do is make it in this world, like all of us... and here we are, trying to annihilate their entire existence. I wonder what the conversation is like around the diner table in a family of nutrias: "Boy, it sucks being us... "

Our family bought one of these new - the 1989 model. It had a 150 hp Mitsubishi (I thought, but not apparently) V-6. And it was decent. 7/70 warranty. This was the "Last Rambler." AMC bought/partnered with Renault on the design of the car, taking design ques from Volvo (headrests/body style)... and then Chrysler bought AMC... and then rebranded the "AMC Premiere" as the "Eagle Premiere" in 1987/88. It was built in Ontario at fairly advanced factory - for the day. It was the last car AMC attempted to put its name on. The car had what was called "ground switching" electronics. Most electrical systems always have the ground/neutral connected at all times - and switch the hot (on and off). In the Eagle Premiere... the hot side of the circuit was always connected... it was the ground side that switched on and off. Backwards. Needless to say, we had issues with the electrical, as well as the transmission. And one time.. at a red light the car would not move forward. I had to push it through the intersection.... and then drive it home in reverse (on side streets) for that last mile to the house. I never drove it again. I saw an ad once: "For sale. 1988 Eagle Premiere. $2000 worth of repairs. Asking $2001 OBO." Our family should have bought the Maxima. But Chrysler cut us a deal that was just too good to refuse...

Even style-wise. It's just the same old junk, different decade.

Incredible. It still has 4 wheels, 4 doors, engine up front. Like every sedan ever created.

That is where Austin excels over Houston... I thought all we were allowed were a bunch of illegal taco trucks. But according to some, it is apparently legal to have street food vendors in this city... who routinely get clean water from a taco truck commissary every 24 hrs...

BryanS Yep. I'm sure every taco truck in this city is doing that. BRYANS

I think she deserves more than that.

What kind of life? Nothing says Montrose like a "Smoothie King" ... or a Bagel shop... What a waste.

...sounds like people want to turn Montrose into Midtown... there are already too many failed midrises in Montrose... and you want another one?

Excel. My step-mother used Peachtree, back in the late 80's? Maybe early 90's.

Yea! ... and what about cream-filled ... oh wait...

To all the moral purists out there... Your kids are absolutely going to hate living under your roof. And not in the good, healthy way. "Dad wants to go camping with us... AGAIN! For the love of God, why can't we just go out with our friends!" I've made several personal observations that kids who live under such regimes end up more screwed in the head than kids with normal parents.

I have rediscovered Twinkies, after 15 years of not partaking. I was at the grocery store, stumbled across them and thought: Hey! I remember these! I have one Twinkie, with my coffee, every morning now. Not a healthy snack - but yummy.

I'd say the opposite is true... You sound like someone who wants to have children that are driven winners. Maybe your kid(s) will be on the football team - star players. Or perhaps your girls will make the cut for the varsity cheerleading squad. They're gonna be enjoying quite a bit in life, at that age - doing things they like. They'll enjoy their extra-curricular activities (playing football, cher leading)... as well as gettin' it on with each other! BIG TIME! If their high school was anything like mine. ...vs... the fat, nerdy ones who stay at home, watching TV, playing video games. Their chances of scoring will be a lot lower than the other driven, popular ones. It just works that way. ...and I am totally confused on the thinking about sex less, and it "helping." It only takes one time... and unless you can purge all sexual thoughts from your kids minds, you are wasting your time.

What a timely topic... I was talking with the SO ... and it turns out that sex education - in this state - is not uniform. For example, we had "sex (education) day" in 7th grade. Actually, it was really a half a day. Prior to admission into the class, parents had to sign a consent form. Guess how many parents signed the consent form in my class? All of them. It is beneficial, to a limited extent, to have public schools provide such education. They explain all of the plumbing – way better than your parents ever could; however, they were too generic when describing the urge to “touch yourself” – and how that was normal. You eventually get that figured out, but a little more instruction would have been beneficial back then. They encouraged you to have the “moral” discussion with your parents; the class was focused on what was happening to your body, why it was changing, and why you have these urges. It was a win-win. But where the SO is from, they did not even offer the class. Both of us went to small public schools. I thought for sure if they did it in a school like mine, surely, they would do this everywhere. Sadly, that is not the case. In the UK… to combat the teenage pregnancy problem there… kids are told to “touch themselves” – DAILY. To get it out of their systems. That, and free condoms in every bathroom in every public school in the nation, is the only way to combat this problem. And for those who have moral objections… home school your kids. They may not be active sexually, but you can still be proud of the little spelling bee freaks.

No need to worry about keeping the paint clean. Simply don't clean it... Just leave it. Like I do. Nice car... what part of Houston did you take that photo? I sure would like to live in that spot...

What a lie. "The Leaf" must be plugged in. So that electric factories can recharge it. Doesn't look like zero emission to me.

Some of these: ...in yogurt. YUM! ... but DO NOT eat the grape-nuts by themselves. "You'll knock your teeth out." Said one of my fellow LA AFB USAF commissary Compton-area grocery baggers in 1990... who had no teeth. I will never forget that.