When idling for a while, temperature gauge climbs up from very cold (where it usually is) to just above the middle of the normal range. At this point, the engine appears to be overheating: rainwater on hood vaporizes, and I lose a noticeable amount of coolant. The cooling fan does turn on at this point.

The coolant level is fine. I replaced the coolant temperature sending unit, but that didn't help. Any ideas?

robert deniro from taxi driver....they look a lot alike...what do u think?

Saw today some are advocating an 18% tax on non diet soda and pizza, which would result in the average American losing 5 pounds and would help to reduce health care cost. Since we are only raising taxes on successful people, we should only tax fat people, why should people who aren't fat pay the same penalty. This would be a big feather in Obama's cap as it would created jobs. All pizza delivery guys would be required to buy American made scales, and upon delivery would have the purchaser step on the scale to see if they had to pay the tax. All locations that sold soda would have the same requirement, but they need larger, commercial grade scales, that would require skilled technicians to keep them calibrated, creating even more jobs. In the grocery store, when an overweight person was attempting to purchase soda or pizza the clerk would be required to get on the PA system and announce, "chunko on eisle 6".

Keep up the good work Borat.