They're averaging in the rest of New York State. I would kill to pay $3.80 on average for gas. There are stations charging close to $5.00/gal for regular in Queens.

You have to also keep in mind that before photoshop, photographers were manipulating the images they produced through hundreds of subtle techniques. Playing with light, angle, perspective, depth of focus, cropping, color and saturation and so on and so forth, in addition to posing the model in such a way as to erase…

If only some other English-speaking country had a different word or word phrase to describe periods (the punctuation mark). Regrettably, the world may never know.

I was told when I was younger that automatics are actually better in pick-up trucks because they handle the stress of hauling loads better. Is there any truth to that?

Pshaw, just wait til you see the Hennessy numbers.

Well, she has apparently already wrestled boys, and some of them were able to bring themselves to beat her. I imagine that older boys will be able to do the same. Honestly, the competitive urge in wrestling is strong enough that I doubt her gender is going to make any difference at all.

It's not his skills. He decides beforehand whether he's going to softball it or gut the interviewee, and most of the time he decides to go softball because he wants people to come on his show, come back, that sort of thing, and the benefit of gutting them doesn't outweigh that. As has been pointed out elsewhere in…

Why wouldn't the BMW get hit with the same tax? Are you expecting BMWs with comparable performance to be that much more fuel efficient?

There's a difference between "rich guy who leaves money to charity" and Bill Gates. Bill Gates was The Richest Man In The World (and still occasionally is) and is responsible for a massive revolution via the spread of the personal computer. He's on a list of other people, many of whose names also adorn charities,…

It doesn't piss me off, I just think it's kind of useless, meaningless and disconnected from reality. It makes me a bit sad, I guess, because I think that you (and people like you) and I probably have largely overlapping visions of how the world should be. The left is full of people playing this game, and other…

I understand the argument better, although I think it is wrong. Saying things like "all men are sexist" strikes me as torturing facts and language to support a results oriented argument, rather than an earnest attempt to understand the world. Women can be, and are, sexist. Positing one gender, race or class as being…

I tacked on my qualifier ("particularly") because you're right, it is distinctive looking. But not Aztek or Prowler distinctive (to name two other coincidentally terrible cars). I would consider this a disadvantage relative to more distinctive looking cars, because they at least have that going for them. This blob…

I am familiar with its terrible center console. Your mother is a genius for getting $600.

Yeah, a lot of that going around these days (no pun intended).

I know some people are going to disagree, but fuck the 1996 Ford Taurus. Honestly.

Seriously, I thought this was actually kind of great. The giant Pentagon machine approaching gender integration with the kind of pragmatism and dedication that characterizes its better endeavors. You can see the initial powerpoint even:

"You have to realize that the reason for this racism and sexism is that it is INTERNALIZED."

"You have to realize that the reason for this racism and sexism is that it is INTERNALIZED."

So I think a lot of the danger here is in generalization, right? Is it that blacks and arabs are more likely to get in fights at clubs, or is it that in your area, and specifically your club, a disproportionate number of fights involve blacks and arabs? Further, why is that the case? Is it because they're getting…

I am almost certainly in the minority here, but I think you'd have to be more specific for any kind of answer. I mean, some stereotypes are reflective of statistical truths. Irish people are more likely to be Catholic, for example. They're not genetically predisposed to Catholicism or anything like that, but it is…