"Hey, did you see the story [in the WSJ/on the innertube/in email/on 60 Minutes] about someone buying a Mazda lemon that turned out to be underwater in the Pacific for six weeks, BEFORE Mazda sold it? I'm never buying a Mazda again, if they're willing to sell those!"

Don't let the word "brand" let you sneer at Mazda's behavior. Mazda is worried about the reputation it'd get when someone purchases one of those things off a used car lot in good faith, and then wrecks in a fireball when a barnacle clogs up the brake fluid line and two car-loads of people die. A 0.01% chance of a) people dying and b) awful reputation ("brand tarnishing") == no sales -- all is much smaller than the cost and waste of a barge of cars.

Go sneer at something worthwhile.

Snarky note 0.

What's with all the creationist ma-roons here today?

You're woefully misinformed if you think:

- "Darwinism" is the same as evolution.
- that evolution takes any position on abiogenesis.
- that "species" is anything but a mental box we put things in that say little about the nature of critters. (Look up "ring species" for a pathological case.)
- that there are any compelling alternatives to what evolution explains.
- that there are any scientific alternatives to what evolution explains.
- that your anti-evolution propaganda machine is telling you the truth, re: transitional fossils, macroevolution, the nature of science, or what repsected scientists say about any of those.
- that creationism has done anything but Flunked its scientific tests. (It's not expulsion if you fail out.)

/me sighs.

My adopted city, Orlando, is so weird.