Everytime I think of old people and driving, I think of the movie Ffolks where Tom Selleck's old parents want to kill themselves and he sends them down the wrong way of a freeway, but they wind up unscathed because their cast iron car from the fifties beats the crap out of the new stuff on the road.  Instead of collecting on their life insurance, his liability gets pounded in the cornhole.

I loved them, too, but they were just as crappily constructed as anything else that's ever come out in the video game market.  People pump up the Big N's wares like they're made indestructible like Tonka trucks.  

Well, like the old Tonka trucks, which were actually solid steel.  I was very unpleasantly surprised some years ago when buying one for my youngest nephew.  I wound up sanding and repainting an old one of mine to give him, as it was still better than the half-plastic junk from the store.  

But that's neither here nor there.  The only thing Sony's added to the list of gripes is DRE, which isn't unexpected in that the PS2 wasn't that great hardware and design-wise to start with.  They can make good stuff, but they were in a self-imposed bind similar to that PSP faces now...need more units, so manufacturing goes to pot in deference to quality control.

Anybody who doesn't know the basic rules of the road (particularly those governing right of way) should keep their asses off the road for the good of all involved.  Driver's licenses should be harder to get and people should submit for retesting every year for the privilege of operating a motor vehicle.

Anyway, back to the bullshit.

I guess this is pretty random....

I fail to see how you figure Israel controls who we go after in the supposed war on terror.  Bush is determined to get both sides to agree to the establishment for a Palestinian state, which destroys any hope for peace there, as the Palestinian Authority is still committed to the utter annihilation of the Jewish state.  There is no compromise possible that saves both sides.  And you'd think a Christian as devout as Bush supposedly is would heed the prophesy of Joel 3:2 concerning the treatment of the land promised to the nation of Israel and the people He granted it to.

The reason Saudi Arabia escapes is three-fold.  First, they have as many or more investments in the U.S. than practically anyone else in the world, and the government always protects those who suck up to it.  Second, taking Saudi Arabia would completely end any chance of cooperation with all Muslims.  Instead of just fighting the Wahabbi sect, we'd wind up against all of them because of intrusion on soil they regard as sacred.  Third, the corrupt monarchy there is the only thing that prevents the nation from instituting an Islamic fundamentalist regime that would make Iran pale in comparison and only serve to institutionalize further the terrorism the world fears so.

But I doubt Kerry would support Israel.  He may well be of Jewish descent, but that doesn't mean anything to a lot of people in his shoes.

GayTPS?  Is this a reference to Peter's crappy job in Office Space?