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G.M. Plans to Close Saab After Talks Collapse
Just pausing for a quick farewell to the family car of my childhood. Back in the ’70s, Saab didn’t have such a yuppified reputation, and was just a weird European brand that few people drove. My dad thought they were very cool, however, and from […]

Be thankful for your blessings this Thanksgiving, and reflect on the less fortunate.

The Post-Standard ran a story this past Sunday about the odyssey of a local Glock pistol, known to local police as “9 mm No. 1″ which was involved in 13 shootings and one armed robbery in the Syracuse area alone until its confiscation recently from its latest user, a 23-year-old man. (As one […]

Check out the “new” New York State license plates we’ll all be forced to buy starting in April 2010!

How appropriate… since we’re already headed back to the economy of the mid-1970s.
(I gotta confess: I’ve missed the blue and gold.)
Updated: BuffaloPundit is right…

Feel the excitement!

Whatever activities a hierarchy undertakes initially to bond a population to itself… often thereafter becomes de rigueur, so that further bonding activities are at higher cost, with little or no additional benefit to the hierarchy. The appeasement of urban mobs presents the classic illustration of this principle. Any level of activities undertaken […]

Brian Cubbison of the Post-Standard has a new blog called Future News, which is going to look at ways that newspapers will be able to use things like RSS and Twitter and Facebook and other tools that will show great communications promise to generations of journalists yet unborn. He points out that the world […]

Everything worth reading about is on Wikipedia by now, right?
Well, no. You still can’t find anything on Wikipedia about Stanislaw Kaszynski, the municipal official who was executed by the Nazis for trying to tell the world about what was going on at the Chelmno death camp in his jurisdiction.
Nor can you find […]

I can’t believe the news today: yet another CNY motorcyclist is the victim of a driver who turned into his path. This comes on the heels of two fatalities last week. If you know someone who rides a motorcycle, you might have had the experiencing of reading the breaking news about one […]

An article worth reading, although it’s not a new complaint: Manhood for Amateurs: The Wilderness of Childhood.
Though the wilderness available to me had shrunk to a mere green scrap of its former enormousness, though so much about childhood had changed in the years between the days of young George Washington’s adventuring on his side […]