Rebecca Solomon, a 22 year old student was flying back to school after holiday break. She made sure she arrived at Philadelphia International Airport 90 minutes before takeoff, given the new regulations ( Read more... )

Thank God Bush isn't President anymore, when members of his administration would tell people to shut the fuck up about civil rights and such. Things like this:

[The Director of National Intelligence] also said criteria for adding people to the government's "no fly" list was too legalistic and rigid. And he said that in recent years there has ( Read more... )

When the government and banks are trying to convince you to do something because it's "responsible" you can bet that it's a bad deal for you.

Faced with people defaulting on their mortgages because it's the sensible thing to do financially, mortgage bankers and the Obama administration are telling people to do the "responsible" thing and pay their ( Read more... )

Art Clokey, the creator of Gumby and Davey and Goliath died yesterday.

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Check out this video on Detroit, the UAW, and decades of federal "support"

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And this story from the NY Times. It's about how the UAW is working to "save" GM ( Read more... )

Driving out to Lancaster, mizerychick and I pass a rather decrepit water park. It looks like a place Scooby & the gang would explore and find a guy in a rubber mask scaring visitors.
Seriously, check out an overhead view.Driving past it this year, we saw that it was up for sale. We thought we should buy it and rename it "Traction Park." We also found that ( Read more... )

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a guy stops purse thieves on a scooter by hurling a bike at them.

that you see what you really wanted to get from Santa.
Now I realize that I really wanted was this hilarious paining

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Yeah, NYC has the most famous Christmas tree, but only NJ can proudly claim a Christmas tree made from the flare stack of an oil refinery.
Move over Rockefeller, N.J. has its own Christmas tree and it doubles as a flame-thrower


It's like something out of the Blade Runner Christmas Special.

If you had gone down to the River Lot at Stevens to get your car (or, more likely, went down to the River lot to examine the hole in the pier where your car used to be) you probably noticed train tracks in River Street (now Sinatra Drive). I had always figured these were old streetcar tracks, but they are actually freight tracks.
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