Forbes' list is skewed politically because it added taxes to the list. No one cares how much they pay in taxes as long as they get it back in services. I go around and around with people on that- you have a well-run local government with high taxes and great services and everyone's happy because it's cheaper than paying for the services yourself. Forbes should rerun the numbers without taxes added- it's a lie.

I know several rust belt cities in PA and OH that have horrible cultures, far worse than NYC, definitely on-par with Cleveland and Detroit.

I remember these from the early 1980s. The girlfriend of the guy who worked at the skateboard shop had these, she had a beehive hairdoo and popped gum all the time. I think she wished she was Debbie Harry. Seeing these again really takes me back to 1981-1982.

Jesus people, do you read the articles? The airport changed its flight plans recently. There were no planes overhead when he moved in.

How much do you bet that kid just lost every college offer he had coming?

The Philadelphia Mummers, the string bands, do a parade that mostly has people doing old minstrel songs and dances, but not in blackface. It's seriously awkward to watch.

I once worked for a company that hired a sociopath as a vice president. He was exactly the kind of guy you'd want on your side, fighting for the company- totally ruthless and aggressive and the company did great. Then he invented a web of lies about me and abandoned the four of us who made up his core team to focus entirely on this new guy, who was like his puppy. I quit as soon as I got another job. Suddenly weird stories made sense, the multiple wives, the kids he didn't know, the companies he had a grudge against. The guy is still a sociopath, but burned too many bridges to be successful in the internet age where his reputation has been besmirched on f*****company.com, etc.

Total Libertarian, of course.

Wow! This totally changes my view of Mercury. Ok, maybe not.

I too would choose the first option thinking that prices surly would be different when most people would earn less than me. As stated befire: When prices stayed the same i would choose option number two.

As Penn & Teller stated: PETA is Bullshit!

I hate to print this publicly, but my father always believed he had secured a deal from a penniless heir which made him the 19th Laird of [Scottish Island that I won't mention] through someone who sold him that title in the 1950s. My great grandfather was from that island, so it wasn't insane that he thought it could be done.

Needless to say the Scottish royal title, Laird, is meaningless akin to "landowner" and no Scottish/ British royal titles can be legally transfered by buying them, period. But there's no shortage of people SELLING them in the same way people sell star names and bridges.

They absolutely used the term lynch in the old west. One thing to keep in mind is that after the civil war, many confederate veterans spread out an worked on ranches in the west. I'm not a young guy and my father is very very old and my grandfather was born well into the 1800s. I heard many stories of lynching in Oregon and Washington state- one nasty one involving sheep rustling. This is the sad history we live with, but it's not all about the African-American experience in the deep south. I don't know how to say that without sounding like a creep, but it's pretty arrogant to presume that history is all about one people and lynching is not all about racism. Not remotely.

Heretics! You are making fun of HIM! HE is far more than that. Add a little bolognese.

As George Carlin said: You can make jokes about anything and anyone. You can use the words you want. Words are not good or bad. Only the teller of the joke can make them bad. If a racist tells a somehow racist joke its not good. If someone tells a somehow racist joke who is not a racist in any way is a different thing.

that is by far the nerdiest cake ever, beating out every star trek cake by a mile.

This is a joke I think. The only good thing about this picture is, that you can see how to do some serious relaxing...