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more about #jalopnik more comments → El_Gato: According to the NY Times story, Biden learned about the crash after taping the show and called the officers to see how they were doing. Technically, ... more » katastic: Wow- it's pretty fucked up that you used his wife and daughter's deaths to make a 'funny' point referencing Nostradamus. Very low. more » NcSchu: So...by the 'John Stewart show' do they mean the Daily Show with Jon Stewart? more » pegolas71: This is depressing. When I see a post on Joe Biden, I don't want depressing; what I want are photos of his glorious, glorious teeth, all shiny and wh... more » noasalira: Biden's wife and daughter were killed, and his son almost died, but somehow because you can't think of anything to write about you decide to turn it i... more » Magister: At least he's not still riding the train. #joebiden more » Froggmann: I never wanted to go to Detroit to begin with. For me it's right up there with prison. Except I would likely survive prison. #charlieleduff more » badasscat: 2nd Amendment! #charlieleduff more » Mr.choppers - Delenda Carthago Est: Is there a Green Zone? #charlieleduff more » onehotjuggler: How bad is it, that read the headline as "Murder, Death, Kill" What an awful movie more » Michael Bauser: Another fun "How violent is Detroit?" factoid: Half the City Council plans to be carrying concealed weapons next year: [www.freep.com] Even the mini... more » A Message To Rudy: I would pile on more on Detroit, but I live in Chicago, so... #charlieleduff more » AndPreciousLittleofThat: It bears repeating: "Robocop" was a documentary. #charlieleduff more » that ain't the way to have fun, son: But you can buy houses for $500!!! Yeah, but then you live in Detroit. Crack pipe... Literally in this case. Probably a pile of used ones on every... more » AliHajiSheik: This just reinforces the stereotype that its so cold in the D. #charlieleduff more » -
#apocalyptic
Joe Biden Has a Car Curse
The vice president's motorcade was in a midtown Manhattan crash last night, their third in one week (three means trend), one of which caused a fatality. More » -
#journalismism
Detroit: Murder Murder Murder, Kill Kill Kill
Rugged personality-possessing newspaperman Charlie LeDuff can typically be found roaming Detroit in search of frozen hobo bodies and colorful raccoon hunters. Today, he has a more serious topic: Enough violence to make you...well, never want to go to Detroit. More » -
#distracteddriving
'Stripper-Mobile' Proves Every Las Vegas Stereotype Correct
Just read an article about a truck that drives around Las Vegas with a stripper dancing in it, and boy are my preconceived notions about that place tired (from being completely confirmed.) Whatever happens in Vegas, is ridiculous in Vegas. More » -
#recessionomics
The New Corporate Compact (Car, To Live In)
The Way We Live Now: In a new way. Which is not to imply it's a worse way. It's just new, and different. Corporate America hasn't been doing so well. They need...a "new deal," if you will. More » -
#parochialnews
Bloomberg to Make it Easier to Park the Car You Live In Now
What is our billionaire Mayor-for-life up to, today? Oh, he has some great ideas for parking! He will make it so easy to park in New York, if you just give him one more term. Parking will be his legacy. More » -
#comebacks
Tesla's Precarious Reprieve
Huge infusions of money would seem to have helped Tesla Motors: the electric-car startup has escaped a bitter lawsuit from founder Martin Eberhard and finally sited a power-train factory — and that's just this week. But other fights loom. More » -
#dreams
Taxi Driving a Better Route to Success than Wall Street
This is the new path to success: quit Wall Street, drive a cab, and then make it big in the TV business. Are you listening, laid off derivatives traders? It works! More » -
#castingcall
We Aren't Seeing Transformers 3 If This Thing's Not in It
The Krupp's Bagger 228 is more than meets the eye. It is the world's largest digging machine, and it moves! If Michael Bay hasn't already ordered it up for the screenplay, he's not doing his job.
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#vanityplates
Suri Cruise is Riding Around L.A. on a Gold Lexus
A tipster in Los Angeles just sent us this picture, snapped from his car on Los Feliz Blvd., right up the street from Scientology's Mission of Los Feliz. So, who was driving the car? More » -
#facesquatting
No, You Cannot Be BMW (Or Any Other Big Corporation) on Facebook
Facesquatters beware: Facebook is coming for you. The social network rolled out short usernames less than two months ago, now it's starting to revoke the ones it doesn't like. More » -
#imagefile
Cambridge Cop's Unfortunate Vanity Plate: WHY-TEE
After Barack Obama said Cambridge cops "stupidly" arrested Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates on the front porch of his own home, the police said they "deeply resent the implication" anyone would think they're racists. Maybe clue this Cambridge cop in. More » -
#highwaytohell
NYT To America's Teenage Drivers: Stop Texing, Goddamnit!
You know you've done things while driving besides driving. Old ppl at the Times would like you to know: it's bad, shame on you, and you should play our video game to see how good at it you are. More » -
#shockers
The Transformers Sequel Is Loud, Obnoxious, and Loud
As it lurches toward us, metal gears clanking and whirring like Larry King at a mixer, early reviews of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen come trickling in. The word? Basically it's loud and garish and, worst of all, not fun.
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#deathride
Exclusive: Fox Newser Accused of Dragging Cyclist Through Central Park
In typical Fox News fashion, when we asked a Fox News writer how a Central Park cyclist ended up being dragged on the hood of his SUV for four blocks, he blamed the victim, calling the biker a "vigilante." More » -
#evilempire
Judgement Day: The Fast and Spurious Google Street View Car Finally Arrives In New York
Hey, New Yorkers - not neurotically self-conscious enough these days? Well, congratulations: you're next contestant on Bust Ass In Front Of The Google Street View Car. More » -
#charlatans
Glenn Beck Tries to Convert GM CEO Fritz Henderson Into Kookdom, Fails Miserably
Today Glenn Beck, Fox News' maniacal dildo, had GM CEO Fritz Henderson on his show. Beck attempted to rope Henderson into his anti-governmentalism, even mocking Obama's "yes we can" slogan along the way, but failed. More » -
#leaks
Tesla Motors Moneyman Revs His Mouth on Camera
A mysterious video of a Tesla investor talking about a rumored investment in the company has popped up on YouTube. Valleywag has identified the blabbermouth: Victor Morgenstern, chairman of a Chicago private-equity fund. More » -
#spacecadet
Elon Musk Adds Mars to His Improbable Dreams
The Red Planet beckons electric-car entrepreneur Elon Musk. He's hoping to put a man on Mars by 2020. Space fanboys are placing their dreams of getting off this rock on a slender reed. More » -
#elonmusk
Tesla Fanboy David Letterman Lets Motormouth CEO Off Easy
David Letterman loves his Tesla Roadster so much that he invited Tesla CEO Elon Musk onto the Late Show last night. The question he should have asked: How long will Musk keep his job? More »
