1886: Karl Benz patents the "Benz Patent-Motorwagen" in Karlsruhe, Germany, the world's first automobile with an internal combustion engine. * * *I was just thinking the other day that so many Democrats suffer from what I call “Yappy Little Dog Syndrome.” They bark at anything or nothing at all. As I recall, the Reich cartoon depicted a small male dog looking longingly at a big female dog with question marks in a thought bubble over the little dog. I must have known at the time that Reich was the little dog — maybe Berney explained it to me — and the cartoon has in any event remained etched in my memory…My own experience with this type of personality comes into play here. Like the yappy little mutt, he’s fearful of anything he can’t control, or at least intimidate, which, in its turn, leads him to fear a free and open economy, for example.