"Kellinger said Yelp told her they would move the negative posting to the bottom of her page. Kellinger refused to pay. "I felt like that was really unfair, and that they were holding me hostage," said Kellinger." - Larry Greenfield via Bookmarklet
"Industry opponents of the auction scheme contend it will not reduce delays but will jack up prices of airline tickets, and lawmakers in Congress are already pushing legislation that would short-circuit the Bush administration's auction plan." - Larry Greenfield via Bookmarklet
Is there an unbiased economics reason why auctions should be opposed? It seems to me that airlines object to them because the current airlines have something for free that's very valuable. Is there a reason as a passenger I should oppose them? - Larry Greenfield
It might depend on your willingness to trade off time spent waiting for delayed flights and possibly higher ticket prices or fewer routes. There's clearly a big externality that the Port Authority doesn't care about though. - Jim Norris
If there's a large contingent of people who put a low value on their time, wouldn't the airlines be scheduling flights in the middle of the night once auctions begin? The airports can't be that clogged with cargo, right? - Larry Greenfield
People might have irrational expectations about wait times or might even act risk-positive (risk-perverse?) towards them? - Jim Norris
"As the Bush administration lowers the value of life, the benefit from regulating pollution goes down. As we lower the value, we lower the regulation. Right on!" - Larry Greenfield
"In Amtrak’s Northeast Corridor, the railroad’s weakest link — a 90-year-old drawbridge across the Thames River in eastern Connecticut — was scheduled to carry its last train on Monday evening, as a four-day, round-the-clock marathon to replace the span was to begin." - Larry Greenfield via Bookmarklet
"We meet at campaign headquarters in Arlington, Va., in a conference room on the M floor - M for McCain. (M is one above 12. The whole floor was renamed and relabeled by the campaign, right down to the buttons on the elevators. McCain is superstitious, his spokeswoman explained; it's a fighter-pilot thing. But isn't M the 13th letter in the ... ? Never mind.)" - Larry Greenfield via Bookmarklet
"One of the charms of looking at cricket from this side of the Atlantic is the confusing nomenclature of the game and they don’t let us down this time, referring to switch hitting as a “reverse slog-sweep”." - Larry Greenfield
"It has long been the custom to compare a popular piece of legislation to motherhood and apple pie. Evidently, that is no longer the standard. Worse, Republicans are now confronted with a John Kerry-esque predicament: They actually voted for motherhood before they voted against it." - Larry Greenfield
(Like is for Mothers, or Moms as they're now fauxkishly called) - j1m
"take one randomly selected line from The Breakfast Club and then join it to a randomly selected line from Waiting for Godot. Or vice versa. It's always great." - j1m
