m l,  exactly what I was going to say.  Hundreds of thousands of people getting their panties in a wad over a cartoon.  I guess there shouldn't be any superheroes either like Superman.  Leeth, do you really have to rely on cartoons to teach your kids dignity and self worth.  Not much of a parent, are you?

Read some of the comments like the one written by Omega.  Hawking is not saying humans are parasites and destroying the earth like so many strange thinking people are posting on here.  It's only been for the past 8000-10,000 years that conditions have been so mild on earth that man has been able to proliferate.  And th...more

Parents that have to spank their kids in public are parents who don't know how to be a parent.  All that is doing is showing you can't control your kid or yourself.  Kids that act up in public are usually just mimicking their parents behavior anyway.  My kids are grown up but when they were young I used to get quite a ...more

I'd call you out on it in a heartbeat, depending on the severity of the spanking.  I slap on the butt to get their attention is not a big deal.  A repeated spanking is.  If you can't control your temper in public please go get the mental help you need.

Rich people stay rich because they're greedy and cheap.  Especially the ones who did nothing to get their money other than being born into a family with money.

He shouldn't get any money for being detained but he shouldn't have been detained 25 hours either.  He made an off hand comment to his wife.  He didn't yell fire in a theater or anything like that.  Anyone who agrees he should have been detained for 25 hours is as big of an idiot as the TSA screener.  The TSA screener ...more

Go ahead and conserve all the gas you can so the rest of us who like our cars fast can keep driving.

Drill baby drill.

If that's the reason, pressing the brake and accelerator at the same time, then why wasn't this problem across the board and affecting all makes of cars?   Are you saying only Toyota owners would do that?