I’ve been on high speed rail in China - it works like a champ. Loved blasting 150mph through the countryside, and it was more convenient than trying to fly. The high speed stations are often placed in urban stations where you can easily transfer around.

Bull shit. There are a lot of 4 to 6 hour drives I’d rather do by high speed train if it was available. I live in Charlotte, NC and taking a plane to D.C., or Atlanta is too much trouble for the short flight and the time at the airport. Shit, I’d take high speed rail all the way to NYC if it was available.

No, it’s not that. The problem with Europe is that it’s too small for sleeper services to work properly. The ones in the UK have to run slower than the regular schedule to allow an 8 hour journey, and it’s the same in other countries.

Trains are a great way to travel for other reasons too, but it takes a bit of a…

High speed rail makes a lot of sense, it’s just that you poor Americans have never really seen it. The Acela Express reaches the dizzying speed of 150mph for nearly 30 miles, but the rest of the time it’s not really any quicker than the trains that were traveling the same rails 80 years ago.

Many countries have trains…

Have you been to Europe or the northeast lately?

Nothing witty, I just hope he fucking dies.

Supposedly, Trump is writing his own speech, too!

What we’ve done instead of trying to surround him with what people consider A-listers is we are going to surround him with the soft sensuality of the place. It’s a much more poetic cadence than having a circus-like celebration that’s a coronation,” Barrack said. “That’s the way this president-elect wanted it.

I swear every morning since the election I’ve woken up and had the horrible realization that Trump is going to be president over and over. It’s like the movie Groundhog Day without the comedy.

Boyden could have published these books as someone who had a great affinity with First Nations Canadians who *might* also have some Native ancestry. No one would have had a problem with that. However, they might not have been as successful as they were being framed as from inside that Native perspective. That added…

Very Rachel Dolezal. “But I FEEL indigenous!”

So very sorry. There is nothing better than a good cat.

“Teen Vogue” doing what mainstream media critics aren’t willing to, Especially by name, and to the perpetrator’s face.

Yeah, in my email I told them I’ll never grace MSG or Radio City again, but I failed to mention that I’ve lived in NYC my entire 30+ years of life and I’ve seen the Rockettes once and I didn’t pay. The Rockettes are super talented but their programming suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuucks.

Yeah, this. Thiiiiiiiis. Dolan is a fucking idiot if he thinks the clucking public isn’t a HUGE issue. He’s just trying to bark away the naysayers. FUNNY STORY WE ARE THE ONES WHO GO TO THE “LIBERAL BASTION” OF NY TO SEE YOUR SHOWS, SOOOOOO. Good luck with that.

Reminder: this organization exists ONLY because “the public” who is doing this “ranting” thinks what they do is worth paying to watch.

Oh, as soon as I read his fucking name I was like “oh OF COURSE.” Good thing nobody is at the office today to hear my indignant chortles.

That would be the most amazing “fuck you” ever.

I hope they do “Springtime for Hitler.”