talos

another reason to bike everywhere....

last summer, this guy was one of the three or four conductors on the G who regularly did the late-night weekend shifts. he always did that voice, and he redeemed many a voyage....

no need for flash, javascript would accomplish the same thing and be less proprietary (easier to code into the site, probably too). both would reduce strain on the server....

stop bitching about whether mcdonald's or whole foods is healthier and make your own damned meal. it ain't that hard, kids....

perhaps no one really needs that ring, necklace, handbag. perhaps if people realized this, they would no longer waste their lives working deadening wage labor that either creates the useless rings, n...

thank goodness mccain was so gracious as to accept public financing......

street fairs as they are now in manhattan are a franchised blight. always the same couple of crappy cheap foreign chotchkes/greasy manufactured food. open it up to the community....

and it should be even more for trucks. the hidden subsidy for tractor-trailer freight is obscene and encourages a lot of wasteful transportation....

thank god. that place blew....

in NYC, at least, the problem with the 21 drinking age isn't so much drinking & driving as the huge illegal fake-ID business it stimulates, and the bind this business puts clubs & bars who have to dis...

considering how big corporate headquarters often work as big advertising for the housed corporations, I think many of them would want to brag about how 'green' they are with conspicuous windmills - pe...

hey, I'm happy these chains are getting stuck with huge legal fees. they're merchants of death, oughta be shut down anyway....

why does this keep getting posted on various sites? it's a poorly-conceived and badly written apocalyptic puff piece. does anybody actually take this shit seriously?...

erm, rapid transit is very expensive. we don't publicly fund ours enough. this is why our stations & service are so pathetic compared to paris, moscow, london, etc. the american way is to cash-star...

kids, generally the advantage of privatization is that of competition. in infrastructure, unfortunately, competition generally makes no sense. notice how Verizon, Time Warner, Con Ed, etc. are all ...