melanarchy

"The girls were rushed by ambulance to a Westchester Hospital, and were treated and released." Seems like a senseless waste of resources and an absurd detour on their way to being grounded....

70K of "damages" is probably something like "not upgrading the linoleum countertops" "failure to install a jacuzzi bath" and "allowing wall to wall carpet to become downtrodden after 12 years of use" ...

Pretty sure it means "finger"....

In the world where you redefine "rush hour" to mean "the time when 2 F trains come within 4 minutes of each other"....

Arresting the "money mules" in this case is like arresting street corner crack slingers, it's easy, you can get the arrest numbers up, and it ultimately does absolutely nothing to stop the problem. ...

Where are the trees? There seem to be no trees or even greenery in front of any of those houses....

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2228/whats-the-story-on-diplomatic-immunity ...

Honestly, $5bn to build a subway line under an existing operating city with minimal disruption. I know people on 2nd ave might disagree but this project has involved significantly less disruption than...

I don't understand why they'd charge the driver. I imagine that the guilt of killing his friend is going to be much worse than any punishment as a result of those admittedly minor charges, but why pil...

The picture of the bridges shows the brooklyn bridge terminal station which is pretty cool....

Google maps shows a whole lot of Green on I-95 I think this is a report from someone who has never actually drive the route before......

If spirit treats their pilots 1/2 as badly as they treat their customers the pilots are doing the right thing here....

Forgot to include the link: http://www.ted.com/talks/irwin_redlener_warns_of_nuclear_terrorism.html...

There is a TED talk about the steps to surviving a nuclear explosion. Simple things like not looking at the blast, keeping your mouth open, and either going above the 10th floor or as far into the bas...

As soon as I read that this happened in Staten Island I lost interest. ...