New York City is self-insured.  It comes directly from city taxes.

It’s telling that you posted this before your Fiero story. At least GM had a designer handle the bumper line in that car, albeit in the most 80's way possible.

Each of the bars has a hole at the front and at the back so you can run cord through it and tie things off or just use a standard bungee cord with the metal hooks. They don't show up well in photos unless you are very close. 

Could this route just be one leg of a longer route?  Like say maybe Albany to Brooklyn, or Albany to Long Island where Manhattan and possibly Brooklyn are just stops along the way?

These terms were also used during the Jim Crow era to determine who could marry whom under ‘anti-miscegenation’ laws and who could attend white schools and all sorts of other hateful nonsense.

Part of the basis for the appeal will be that a primary witness was a drug dealer and that information would have been relevant to a jury considering the veracity of anything that witness might have said.

I can’t even fathom how judicially problematic it would be for the questionable death of a key witness to open the door to creating a basis for appealing a verdict like this. It would become open season on witnesses everywhere.

In about 2006-2007 I once saw a base model Saturn Sky at the local Saturn shop in New Hampshire with a $10,000 ADM line on the sticker. That car sat there for a long time.

I found a way to make a coney dog salad sandwich work here. Mince the dogs, cook for a few minutes under medium/low heat until you have a little color, toss in some diced onions and the chili of your choice, simmer until you’ve cooked off most of the liquid, then spoon into a bun, add cheese and hot sauce as desired,…

There are two separate issues, if we follow the rules of Back to the Future. First, the prospective vehicle must be able to easily reach 88 miles per hour, using whatever on-board power source it has. Which means it has to be able to travel that fast over whatever road conditions might be available in whatever time…

The look is good, now if only they can get power to the correct set of wheels, it could actually be a decent car.

Voltron solved the key fob dilemma like 3 1/2 decades ago.

Part of the reasoning behind checking receipts at any of the big box stores is to check against cashiers working with customers to steal items.  The cashier rings you up, and either doesn’t ring up the big ticket item, or rings it up as something cheaper with a wink.  It’s not to prevent shoplifting, it’s to prevent…

I bought my last new car with 11,998 miles on the odometer. Two more miles and it would have had to have been sold as used. It had so many miles because it was a newly re-designed model that was fully loaded from early in the production run.  It had been used for several months by company executives and for publicity…

No, not it is not a ‘good deal’.  The ATS-V has the chintziest vehicle interior of any car north of $30K.  I was considering one until I actually sat in one for five minutes.  My 15-year-old Saturn has a nicer interior than a brand new ATS-V.

The moment they decide to put the LGX V6 in this thing is the same moment I start trying to find the closest Buick dealership.

Carpeting around the world is shuddering in horror.

Considering the ubiquity of artificial gravity, repulsors, and shields in the Star Wars Universe, it seems unlikely that any ship hull has ever been exposed to anything other than just one standard gravity level from the moment it was first turned on. Ships not seeing combat would likely survive practically forever,…

When are we going to get this with the proper LGX 3.6 v6 that it so badly deserves? If Buick expects to get grown-up money for this, they’d better be offering a grown-up engine for it at some point.

1985 Pontiac Fiero. It was actually a pretty good car for teaching how to drive in bad conditions because it was so skittish on ice and snow, you had to be sure before you did anything. It was so light in the front with wider stock tires than it really needed, it just climbed over snow instead of cutting through it.…