Reader John emailed to report some alarming news for Michigan motorists.
It seems that Rep. Roy Schmidt of Grand Rapids has introduced legislation that would bar the Secretary of State (Michigan’s DOV) for issuing or renewing licenses to people who have three or more outstanding parking tickets.
Harsh.
I’ve always viewed metered parking as a kind of cat-and-mouse game. [...]
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Should you lose your license because of a parking ticket?
American style tipping comes to London [progress]
As anyone who has dined out in Europe knows all too well, service in European restaurants is not exactly the same caliber that it is back in America.
Waiters are uniformly rude, slow to take your order and seemingly determined to serve you cold food. Once you do get your meal, they avoid checking in on [...]
The revolutions we like, and the ones we don’t
A few weeks back, supporters of the ill-fated Green Revolution in Iran petitioned to have the Empire State Building lit in green during the week of the United Nations General Assembly. The supporters wanted the lighting as a show of solidarity with the Iranian opposition during a time when the world’s leaders were gathered in [...]
General Motors is dead, long live Walmart! [polls]
There was a time when General Motors = America. This was true both in terms of corporate might and popular imagination. But those days have long past. Today General Motors is literally owned by America! But I digress.
With GM now lying lifeless on the dust heap of history, what mega corporation best represents America today?
According [...]
Don’t worry, Starbucks doesn’t expect you to drink its bad new instant coffee.
So the big news today—at least in the Starbucks at the corner—was that the new instant coffee VIA has finally arrived.
Seeing as I don’t have a coffee maker, I decided to pick some up and give it a shot. The verdict: it sucks, just like all instant coffee.
But that is OK because Americans aren’t supposed to like [...]
Remember when GM had balls?
Remember the good old days before General Motors was a government company?
When it purchased and dismantled streetcar networks across America;
When it fought tooth-and-nail against mandatory seatbelt legislation;
When it abandon its hometown of Flint, MI and laid off 30,000 people while making record profits;
When it led the charge to defeat new fuel economy standards, again, and [...]
The “Joe Wilson approach” to dealing with unscrupulous merchants
So, Congressman Joe Wilson (R-Confederacy SC) shouted “YOU LIE” in the middle of the President’s Healthcare speech last week, and his outburst has been pretty much the only political news story since then. Wilson, his Democratic challenger and the DCCC have all raised a boatload of money off the event, making “YOU LIE” the shortest, [...]
Should New York try running negative ads?
The AP reports that New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and London Mayor Boris Johnson have agreed to swap ad space on each city’s public transportation system in order to boost mutual tourism. London will be able to place a few dozen ads in MTA buses while New York will get poster locations in the Underground.
Of course, what [...]
Did the President say the Twitter guys are as important as the Founding Fathers?
I am not going to weigh in on the Obama school address “controversy” other than to say it is stupid. If the president wants to talk to kids on the first day of school, that’s fine. He is the president and that is his prerogative.
What I will take issue with is some of the parallel [...]
The Pay-Toilet Address
I wrote this as a memorial on the 18 month anniversary of the new pay toilet installed in Madison Square Park. It is one of two pay toilets that have been installed in New York by a Spanish company seeking to undermine the right to pee for free that was hard won by the Committee [...]
