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• What do you think is the ugliest car?

  Thu Oct 8, 2009
  • I owned a Gremlin. It was a weird car to see (the designers quit designing it half-way back) and a weird car to drive (overpowered so that the rear end was always trying to pass the front end). It was ugly to look at and ugly to drive. But I loved it as only a parent can love an ugly child.

• Is NCAA's penalty against Alabama proper?

  Thu Jun 11, 2009
  • Other schools have suffered much more heavily for much more minor offenses. It is time to lean more heavily on those who do not monitor their programs adequately or we will increase the chaos in college sports that now exists.

• Motor City's woes extend beyond auto industry

  Sat Dec 20, 2008
  • There is no doubt that Motown is in trouble.  But I think the comments above are much too simplistic in their analysis.  I live in Detroit, and there are places I don't willingly go.  But there are also places which I am proud to show visitors to the city.

• UM coach wants to tell irate fans: 'Get a life'

  Tue Nov 18, 2008
  • I'm a UM fan and want RichRod to succeed.  But he does not seem to understand what it means to be "Michigan." 

• First-ever images taken of extrasolar planets

  Thu Nov 13, 2008
  • From J. B. S. Huldane, FRS:  "Not only is the universe queerer than we imagine, it is queerer than it is possible for us to imagine."

• Host of spam groups cut off

  Thu Nov 13, 2008
  • Note that much of the spam was not illegal, only the socially sensative areas like child pornography.

• Is the congressional compromise on the bailout bill a good deal?

  Sun Sep 28, 2008
  • It is very difficult to hear someone who is yelling. You might try to unlock your caps key next time.

• Is the congressional compromise on the bailout bill a good deal?

  Sun Sep 28, 2008
  • We have been told of the horrors of failing to enact a bailout plan. But I have heard no one address the problems which will entail if it is enacted. Some cures are worse than the diseases they address.

• Is the congressional compromise on the bailout bill a good deal?

  Sun Sep 28, 2008
  • I asked several people, including some experts, "What are the consequences of the bailout." We have heard stories on end of the terrors resulting from failing to act, but what horrors await us as a result of action? I might feel better about this if I knew that the cure wasn't worse than the …