Even if they didn't go to online-only and maintained their own dealer network, a significant number of jobs would be lost. Right now I'm living in the Midwest in a town of less than 50k. All of the major car companies have a dealership in town and they're all available at another in the next big town over which is…

The problem with manufacturer-direct selling is that it eliminates local jobs, not just salespeople at the dealership, but it reduces demand on the local utility grid, printers, local advertising, charitable contributions and it'll effect the restaurants in the area who serve the salespeople and their customers lunch.

I think it shows they're twelve years old. A mother cursing would be a scandal to them.

Bill Cosby is in the history books as a television pioneer and has been a revered member of American culture for almost a half century, while Azalea released her debut album around six months ago. Even if they had her on video killing children and eating their corpses, it'd be unfortunate for her and her victims, but…

For me, it was WQDR and Led Zeppelin. Now I have six presets in the car, but mostly I'm listening to the NPR affiliate or if there's one wherever I'm living at the time, the local community radio station. At the house, where I listen more than in my car, I regularly tune to an assortment of non-profit conventional…

In the 70s and into the early 80s, the vast majority of crappy, mostly-forgotten music was on the AM dial, while Joni has always been an FM kind of gal.

She may have a point in regards to radio. In her day, there were a lot more AOR stations and live disk jockeys who would play the stuff they liked, especially in the middle of the night when everybody was pretty buzzed. Now radio is more corporate and formulated, so there's less of an opportunity for something truly…

A couple of bloggers have tried to justify their complicity by claiming that the contents were news. If Sony were a tobacco company and the emails contained schemes to cover-up negative health reports or if it was a Haliburton-like entity trying to rig bids, I might agree, but instead it's been jokes about how much…

They may not have felt emboldened enough to issue the threat, if their power hadn't been amplified by so many blogs and if no one was paying attention to the story, even if they had still issued it, few would have heard about their threat.

Clicking through from the "popular" widget, I thought it'd be a rump roast.

I'm sure it was a traumatic experience. Condolences, best wishes and everything, but from the incident description, I have to ask if the driver looked like this...

While I'm all in favor of anything supporting the Al Franken Millennium and I like everything I know about Elizabeth Warren, a Minnesota/Massachusetts ticket might not be the best electoral strategy. Separately, they haven't done that well in the recent past.

Clearly you didn't watch ABC's "World News Now" (their old overnight broadcast), otherwise you'd have fond memories of this gem (with Barry Mitchell).

I guess it's great that somebody found a clip and it'd probably be a service if someone would check to see if it remains in the show's official archive on screen.yahoo. Now that I'm reminded, I remember it, mostly because of the Kenan part, but I'm not really getting why her doing a bit on SNL is surprise or…

At first I was a bit saddened by the news that Burt was selling his memorabilia, but then I scrolled through some of the item listings and there are football trophies from when he was a kid, books others have autographed to him and random stuff he's accumulated. I hope he's keeping the best stuff for a Burt Reynolds…

The only real difference (and what prompted my reply) is that as I read the excerpted quote, it doesn't appear to have anything to do with Taylor Swift, rather her involvement in the title and the original post is something similar to me saying to my wife, "the Dairy Queen we used to stop at after the kids' swim meets…

The source article is behind a paywall, so I'm not seeing the quote in context, but based upon the little bit we have, it sounds like she's complaining about the book and how the character only looked like her. The Taylor Swift connection appears to be that she was attached to the film at one time, which may be how…

I believe Joni was describing herself as having "high cheekbones" and she was saying that it was the only resemblance between herself and the character in the book.

I'm seeing nothing on KCRG's site as of yet, acknowledging the video. I looked because I was reminded of the time in '04, when the Lexington Herald-Leader apologized for not covering the civil rights movement. (I'm not quickly finding the series which discovered their error — the existing links produce a 404 — but…

I hadn't watched it, but Jacob on Gawker's MorningAfter called it "awesome" and said Kate Walsh was having "a blast", so the other day when I wanted a mindless sitcom to stream on my second screen, I gave it a whirl. And yes, her supervising judge wanted her to file a motion, which didn't make any sense.