How to read a book a day for a year.

Choose short/easy/audio books. Actually, I read a book a day and have for years — but it's an audiobook, and most of this reading is don...

"A deranged woman who told cops she detests Muslims broke into a maniacal fit of laughter as she was charged with a hate crime Saturday..."

"... three days after she allegedly shoved an Indian immigrant to his death in front of a Queens train." “Tell your client this is...

Edgy...

... edge avoidance.

"Photo of Man’s Imminent Demise Covers Front Page of the New York Post, Sparks Outrage."

"Abbasi claims that he was using his camera's flash to warn the train's conductor, possibly suggesting that the photos were inc...

"Drinking on top of the Ellicott City sign."

Tweeted — a last tweet — along with a pic of "bare feet dangling over the edge of the bridge as they sat just above the words 'Ell...

In CNBC's new "Top States For Business" rankings, Wisconsin goes from #25 to #17.

One year later, one year greater. Interestingly, the "greatest improvement [is] in the category of infrastructure and transportation, w...

The streetcar boondoggle.

Randal O'Toole explains in detail. ( PDF , via Forbes .) To put it briefly: Buses do better for far less money. Streetcars are the late...

"Put me in a room with a pad and a pencil and set me up against a hundred people with a hundred computers - I'll outcreate every goddamn sonofabitch in the room."

Said Ray Bradbury, in a 1998 interview , quoted in a new NYT op-ed , by the writer Tim Kreider, who says: [Bradbury] opposed the kind of tec...

California voters have "buyers' remorse" over over a $68.4 billion high-speed "train to nowhere."

"The project is still $54.9 billion short of what is needed, raising fears that the state will be unable to find the funds to finish la...

"Tom Barrett wants to spend $100 million on a trolley for Milwaukee..."

It's the new Scott Walker video . He's hitting the train button again. Here 's his ad from August 2010, aimed at the high-speed...

"Not even a busted state fisc can stop Jerry Brown's train to nowhere."

"Transportation experts warn that the 500-mile bullet train from San Francisco to Los Angeles could cost more than $100 billion, though...

Oh! I forgot to watch the recall candidates debate!

Forgot even to tape it. I did notice at one point that there was a debate and made a mental note to tape it. I had the motivation of wanting...

"If they began this project where they want it to go — between San Francisco and Los Angeles..."

"... they would run into so much opposition from the environmentalists, and from local politicians influenced by the environmentalists,...

The moon base is to conservatives what high-speed rail is to liberals.

It's an extremely expensive project that springs out of a man's boyhood passions. You're begging for a toy, and I'm one of ...

Russ Feingold: "The big lie is beginning. The big lie is that this is an out-of-state movement...."

He was speaking about the movement to recall Scott Walker at a rally in Madison, Wisconsin yesterday. "The big lie"? The "big...

California's high-speed rail project nearly triples in cost — to $98.5 billion.

And the new projected completion date is 2033, not 2020. Gov. Jerry Brown on Tuesday was expected to endorse the long-awaited plan, the firs...

The sleek modernity of train travel in Europe — now, with pee bags.

"Dutch National Railways is introducing emergency plastic bags for passengers to urinate in as part of its first-aid provision on some ...

"Eight new Dodge Grand Caravans, purchased 10 months ago with $186,192 in federal stimulus funds..."

"... are sitting unused in storage at a county park because Waukesha County has found no takers for its proposed workers' van pool ...

"Many people say I want to kill myself because I do this."

"People can say what they want. I do it because I want to be cured." Electric therapy, via lying on railroad tracks, in Indonesia,...

The love of high-speed trains.

I've been a big critic of the romantic enthusiasm for high-speed trains in present-day American political discourse, so I was fascinated...