In Okinawa, the weather is warm, it rains for weeks on ends, and everything is swept by salty sea winds. Rusty Toyotas were everywhere.

On Top Gear, the British presenters get a Toyota Hilux with 190k miles on it, and see how tough it really is. In three parts:

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The university's student paper, which I've been calling the "Tri-Weekly Bird-Cage Liner" for years now, runs a police blotter. Public Safety seems to spend most of their time mediating boyfriend/girlfriend disputes, collaring drunk students, and taking note of stolen laptops.

In Wednesday's paper there was a doozie.

2/25 - A person used false credit cards for tuition payments.

Now, using stolen or forged financial instruments is certainly a bad thing. But leaving morals aside, there is a practical matter: if you think using a stolen credit card to pay your tuition is a good idea, then maybe you're not really college material to begin with.

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