In Nashville, the government has just made it illegal to use city streets without contributing additional city tax dollars.

Here's how it breaks down. There's a very popular area of downtown which lends itself to an activity called "cruising". Cruising is simply driving in a certain pattern without a specific destination. Roads in Tennessee are funded by taxes on gasoline. This means that government loves "cruisers" right, because the burn more gas...nope. In the supposed interest of downtown businesses, they have now made sure that downtown streets will remain empty. I guess downtown just got too popular. We can't have that, now can we?

Students, those paragons of knowledge and insight into fundamental life issues, are protesting war with Iraq. I'm intrigued. I mean, if I can't learn from people who are still in school, who can I possibly learn from? You can't expect me to listen to someone who is older and has more experience....that's...that's just ludicrous. Give me the choice between a decorated officer in the US military who has specific knowledge of classified intelligence and a lifetime of service and experience or a screaming 19-year-old engineering student from the University of Texas at San Antonio who has a heart drawn on her belly and carries a sign that says "Wage peace", and I'm choosing the obviously enlightened 19-year-old every time. Who wouldn't?

Why I will never buy another Mazda or Ford product...ever.

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There's more. I've read it. Certainly, other automakers have occasional problems, but as you can see, this particular issue has spanned almost a decade. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.