No sweat, and thanks. Well-considered scrutiny from you guys can only strengthen this thing we do here. Read more

Pretty bad. Couldn't see the bird's nest until the day we left for the airport. Read more

Oops! FUBAR spelling, but right word. Yes, they use veneers. Read more

Sorry. My fault. It's four or five, depending on the options. Read more

We've said it before, but I don't mind saying it again. Read more

Yep, delete the case, save $615 and pop that free 12-oz Slurpee bastard in there. Read more

Enjoy the pointless, self-deluded victory. Read more

Simple. The 1920s suburban flight (that's right, I said "flight") was the very reason why the highway I was writing about in the article was built. Any other interpretation is you being needlessly argumentative 10 months after the fact. Read more

No, both points are just flat wrong. 1.) "The flight to the suburbs occurred after the war." False. Even if you forget that suburbs existed — and that people fled to those places from overcrowded cities — before the 20th century, the first major suburban explosion in NYC happened during the 1920s boom. Just because… Read more

Yes. Do you know the meaning of "incorrect"? Read more

Actually, we're not both partially right. Suburbs did exist, both in the etymology of the word (c. 15th century), and in practical use — as in the outlying parts of cities beyond the reach of municipal jurisdiction — long before WWII. The world didn't start when William Levitt turned Long Island into an NYC bedroom.… Read more

"I say, Bartelby. Alight from that fantastic contraption and climb down from there this instant!"

Indeed. It's tough sometimes, but someone has to be. Read more

As an academic, you seem to dip into lazy generalizations a bit easily, no? Read more

Indeed. Fixed and fixed. Read more

Hey, that's not bad. Read more

Chairman! My apologies. I didn't look in there carefully enough. You get the assist. Read more

Actually, I really, really like this idea. You win. Read more

Yes! Drag Vegas are the only ones left. They're great cars if you replace every single part, and then jam in a blown 427. Read more

Well, first, I'm just a little older than most young punks. Actually, when my dad was my age he had a 20-year-old. She was a stewardess named "Mindy" Read more