Safety doors wouldn’t be so simple to install. You’re talking about a system that dates to the early 20th Century —when land in Manhattan was so cheap, they could simply dig a trench and start putting down rails. Try doing that kind of construction today, you’d go bankrupt just trying to condemn the property of a few…

That’s because BART is not serving an equivalent niche to the NYC subway. BART’s a commuter railroad to go from the outlying areas into the city center. The NYC Subway is designed to only be the city —it doesn’t cross a single county line outside of the five boroughs of the City of New York.

Separation of powers, tho. The DOJ and FBI is nominated by the president, but it serves as part of the judicial branch. There’s always been intrigue that plays off this tension. In essence, it’s always “career” guys vs. “political” appointees.

Anthony Weiner and Donald Trump are a classic case of familiarity breeding contempt in both.

Christie was questioned by the FBI in 2015. I think the only way he gets prosecuted on this is if there’s pile on of obstruction/false statement charges on top of anything for Bridgegate and Port Authority.

According to the guy who has literally written the book on Christie, that was not the only time he threw a bottle at someone:

Until I Googled it as part of replying to this story, I didn’t know “Thank God for Mississippi” is so common an expression that it has its own Wikipedia page, but it’s worth checking out.

That’s not all that’s withered or messed up about Giuliani. From his bout with cancer in 2000:

Since you mention it, I’ll miss Turntable.fm for one simple reason: it gave me a chance to listen to other people’s taste in music and hear them out. Spotify is almost too good at figuring out my musical taste. It’ll serve up the deep cut to that album I was listening to in 1994, but it doesn’t do a great job of…

It was simple at reader aggregation. What I really really miss about it, though, is that the sharing function generated its own RSS feed —so I could use it to boil down the day’s news into bite sized nuggets to do a day’s news clippings for my job using a simple script. And for some ungodly reason, nobody else has…

Ah, but beware of a particular evil of businesses with a contractor model (FedEx is another example in warehousing): in a situation as a contractor, you’ll get pretty badly nickel and dimed for things you responsibilities you wouldn’t think would be on you. Think about things like work equipment, on-the-clock time for…

I always imagined their conversations going like this…

Brian Dennehy or Brian Cox (the actor, not the dreamy physicist)

That’s an over-simplification. A big box store like Wal-Mart doesn’t just fall out of the sky. It usually comes into a community with lobbying guns ablaze, makes a lot of promises to develop vacant lots or otherwise abandoned shopping districts, and then steeply discounts merchandise. By the time a Wal-Mart is in an…

Rickey would like to thank you on behalf of Rickey.

This is getting a song stuck in my head. Someone call The Police!

I hate to be that guy but actually: plenty of unions are “international.” Like, the legal name of the Teamsters is the International Brotherhood of Teamsters for a reason. And U.S. and Canadian transit and transportation sectors —the Teamsters, the Amalgamated Transit Union, assorted airlines unions– have locals on…

You’re right that unions in themselves are not a panacea. But just about every solution that works for workers and acts as a check on managerial rights —whether it’s laws, persuasion, or simple brute force— has to come from somewhere. The only logical “somewhere” is a trade union that’s capable of agitating both at…

There’s a compound somewhere near Galt’s Gulch where she and Joe the Plumber are both living on foodstamps.