Once a year PETA really turns up the crazy to 11. Last January they wanted us to call fish sea kittens, and now they want us to replace Puxsutawney Phil and Staten Island Chuck—and presumably the rest of the nation's groundhogs—with robots. One PETA activist would like for the animals to be brought to a sanctuary and replaced with electronic groundhogs, noting that the "large, screaming crowds, flashing lights of cameras, and human handling" are no way for an animal to live. Hmm... actually, maybe Chuck was trying to make this very point when he bit Bloomberg last year. more ›

Ah, the Second Avenue subway project—that mythical, subterranean Chimera that mayors and governors have spun tales about since time immemorial—is once again in danger of abandonment. With all the talk of service cutbacks as the MTA stares down the barrel of a $1 billion budged deficit, some are wondering if the transit authority should really be spending an estimated $3,000 every minute of every day to dig under Second Avenue at this particular juncture. more ›