[Lady Lucky]

Talk show host Dennis Miller said, "I don't dig polo. It's like miniature golf meets the Kentucky Derby."

Leave it, fool. Polo demands enormous strength, agility, skill and guts. Save that simile for laments about your romantic encounters.

[PrincessB]

Nothing illustrates the superficiality of our times better than the enthusiasm for electric cars, because they are supposed to greatly reduce air pollution. But the electricity that ultimately powers these cars has to be generated somewhere — and nearly half the electricity generated in this country is generated by burning coal.

I've been calling Prius cars coal eaters for some time know. I got a work acquaintance all huffy when she heard me say it.