In other news, Dr. Van Horn is currently running second in at-large voting for Detroit City Council.

Any airline-based "worst" list that doesn't include Delta domestic is incomplete. Their employees have no fucks to give and their aircraft have no amenities.

The pasty isn't a Michigan thing, it's an Upper Peninsula thing. I've honestly never seen a single one of those for sale south of the 45th Parallel.

That's OK, the city wasn't too crazy about him either.

Knight Industries beat them to it.

My neighbor's father did this for Chrysler (minus the computer imaging) 30 years ago. They'd drive the cars for a bit first, too. He'd come home with interesting cars all the time, because they did the occasional exotic as well as mass-market vehicles. Got my first Ferrari, Porsche, etc. rides out of that.

"Good artists copy, great artists steal." — Pablo Picasso

Appropriate that the Browns, Jags, Bills, Dolphins, Lions, Eagles and Rams are the logos looking "backward" by having their subject oriented to the left.

It might be the first time someone in Gilbert's position — a top-ranking, non-partisan business leader — has expressed concerns for the neighborhoods outside the MidCorkDown radius.

Having spent too much time dealing with GM communications, if this is true I feel about it the way Ron Burgundy did about Baxter eating the wheel of cheese — "I'm not even mad. That's amazing."

The idea that something this not-safe and not-bland could make it through their process, or even that people there would allow…

My stock answer: "Detroit is not bankrupt. The city government of Detroit is bankrupt. There's a big difference."

I'm sure the main reason the USMNT won was the capos imported from Seattle by AO to show the Ohioans how to cheer for soccer.

A steal is generally considered to equal .3 runs. So, add 10 runs to Trout's total offensive production (and one to Cabrera's). Then subtract four runs for the six times Trout was caught stealing. Trout's baserunning has added a total of five runs over Cabrera's through 130 games. (TL;DR: Baserunning is massively…

MLB umpires need to take a page from, well, virtually every other official in organized sports and learn to ignore shit that doesn't involve directly challenging their authority on the field. When was the last time you saw an NHL ref hand out a penalty for something a player said when facing the other way?

I'm assuming that Detroit's middle-of-the-road rating (101st out of 198) is only because you can't get the police to actually file a report on an accident unless at least two people are killed, so we're pretty heavily underreporting.

This is a city that used to put up signs that said "The light is red for a reason, so…

I'm not a massive soccer fan (other than my hometown fourth-tier Detroit City FC, where we went through more than 800 smoke bombs last season in the supporters' stands) but we've had at least one if not more TVs in our house tuned to NBC channels all morning the past few weekends just because they're doing such a good…

L'Académie Française ne s'amuse pas.

I didn't intend it as a "Don't do it," was just noting that things were already congested downtown this weekend. The gravel lots on Woodward near Temple where the NewJoe is going to be were charging $40 for parking at 11 am and were already filled with drunks wearing new straw cowboy hats. We went to Downtown Detroit…

Can you imagine the shitshow that would have been downtown this weekend with Dream Cruise, Kenny Chesney at Ford Field and the Tigers game all competing for Woodward between, say, Grand River and Temple?

The real issue with high-speed rail in the US (and with rail travel in general) is that things are just much further apart in most of America.