Flint native here. This is absolutely amazing and spot-on accurate. Flint’s place in civil rights history needs to be shouted from the mountain tops and spread all over the internet!

Part time cab driver here.

NYC blackout 1977

Not sure if anyone else commented on this (1,000 comments!) but this was actually a significant security failure which jeopardized the President of the United States.

This is fantastic, Jason. As a car guy (well, just a kid) in the 80's I started noticed these trends, and I asked my GM executive uncle who told me they were called “composite” headlamps. Not only were they flush against the turn signal, but did not indent in any way, making a “composite” single surface. It was quite…

The airport identifier for Kalamazoo is AZO hence the name.

As a hiphop historian QTip's tweets made my day.

Shoot I hope I don't come across as staunch per se. But LGA was never intended to be the hub of NYC; JFK was. People are just lazy and don't want to go to JFK, myself included. So no one cares to upgrade it because its the only game in town.

A family member worked in Detroit for decades at GM and he referred to it as "Detwat" which I still get a chuckle out of today.

In the industry it is known as "LaGarbage."

Please see my comment earlier about PANYNJ which gets its funding from the Governor(s) of NY and NJ. The people working there HAVE NO EFFECT ON ITS FUNDING.

Check out Interstellar and Dr. Mann's monologue about human evolution / selfishness. He's right, and it applies to the gate boarding procedure. I have been asking for rope ques for years. If you que up on the line and you are scheduled to board, when you arrive at the gate agent, s/he will send you to the end of the…

"It seems like 4 out of 5 people boarding an airplane or going through a security checkpoint are absolute morons. How these people function in everyday life remains a mystery."

I feel for you, but traveling with a "huge full bag of skis" is never going to be easy no matter where you are. Again, not the fault of LGA!

PANYNJ has never been told by any sitting governor to do anything with it. Blame the politicians you elected who didn't fund expansion or upgrades.

But why is LGA frustrating?

If there's a tragic irony here, it's when that guy is walking beside her for 5 minutes. As a result no one else harasses her at all.

Last remaining B-29 bomber (or any non-flying WWII aircraft that is being restored) > Gulfstream 550 trying to avoid bird poop.

Hi Paul, I can't think of the stall speed of an F-16 off the top of my head (and weight is a variable as you know), but I always wondered how jet fighter aircraft can "escort" a tiny recip single engine aircraft. Can they slow to 100 knots and fly alongside or what? A small single recip can chug along at 40 or 50…

How long do you think it takes to evacuate approx 27,000 cubic feet of air? Not a few minutes.