My niece--a very bright young woman--was livid that her grandfather said women are no good at math & science. I asked her what sort of math & science classes she's signed up for in college. "None. It's too hard." I would've felt compelled to prove the old misogynist wrong, but hey, it's not my call. She's studying something to do with sports.

Science, technology, and medicine aren't sexy. They're not what the cool kids do.

And when you're in a society that happily turns its back on science (global warming), technology (outsourcing), and medicine (stem-cell research) in favor of people's "gut feeling", is it really any wonder that we're falling behind?

But as for Ford whining about not being able to get the parts, what did they really expect? It serves them right for not doing the work themselves.