Day: October 28, 2009

Choo-Choo-Chooices

Turns out that Amtrak, forced to serve numerous unprofitable and underutilized routes, isn’t making money:

The average loss per passenger on Amtrak’s 44 nationwide routes was more than $32 in FY2008

By my calculations, we pay ~$300 per individual in the entire country to provide the Interstate Highway System. But, by all means, let’s continue treating it as some sort of Heaven-sent resource that we can all use for free while expecting every other mode of transit to earn a healthy profit…or else!

Federal Communications Commission Chief Diversity Czar Mark Lloyd wants the FCC to force good white people in positions of power in the broadcast industry to step down to make room for more African-Americans and gays to fill those positions. Do you agree or disagree that this presents a threat to free speech?

Zogby poll question

Well, I went to school in Ireland when I was a boy, learned the Three R’s and the Ten Commandments—most of them—made a pilgrimage to the Blarney Stone, received my father’s blessing, and here I am.

William Mulholland, on his qualifications to run the Los Angeles water system