Comments on: Democrats Announce “Love Train”

By: Matthew

Matthew — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 20:42:35 +0000

“So the Republicans warn us of this train in vain”

on a plain in Spain? in the Rain?

By: James Wimberley

James Wimberley — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 17:02:23 +0000

Why be content with mere magnetic levitation? The Love Train must run on spiritual levitation, inspired by ancient Tibetan lore. Virtuous passengers may as a bonus be transformed into eagles; the wicked risk reincarnation as whores catering to Republicans.

By: JP Stormcrow

JP Stormcrow — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 04:35:16 +0000

You’re not saying the train would run both ways, are you? Well maybe two different trains. This train don't carry no arbitrageurs, this train. This train do.

By: jacob

jacob — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 23:53:31 +0000

You’re not saying the train would run both ways, are you?

We’ll have one long railroad just going east, and one even longer going west. And one more going nowhere, just for show.

By: Friar_Zero

Friar_Zero — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 22:09:20 +0000

Oh, great. Now I’ve got that song stuck in my head and every time I hum it i think of the moonlight bunny ranch.

By: Michael Bérubé

Michael Bérubé — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 21:29:33 +0000

There can never be too much love for a Love Train thread. But that City of New Orleans . . . I dunno, I think that train’s got the disappearing railroad blues.

By: rosmar

rosmar — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 20:33:33 +0000

I love this post and the comments that follow it more than I should.

By: Ken C.

Ken C. — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 17:59:50 +0000

Lawmakers have been urged not to “forget New Orleans, the home of the blues,” but Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal is apparently cool to the idea.

Isn’t there already the train, they call, the City of, New Orleans ?

Will the Middle East Love Train compete with the train to Jordan? I hear you don’t even need a ticket for that one.

By: Michael Bérubé

Michael Bérubé — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 13:46:30 +0000

See, that’s the problem with this short-term HSR planning. If we had built the Love Train instead, there never would have been a Proposition 8.

By: addtree

addtree — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 11:53:28 +0000

“Responding to Republican charges that President Obama’s proposed budget includes $8 billion for a high-speed, magnetic-levitation train that” just because Amtrak (or other train provider) promising more people to be delivered

By: Kenny Easwaran

Kenny Easwaran — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 05:42:08 +0000

One thing I’m proud of us Californians for is that even as my fellow state-dwellers voted away my right to get married, we also voted in $10 billion of spending on high speed rail, which is more than those congressional people could do even in the biggest spending bill ever. I would have been much sadder if Props 8 and 1a had both failed than with both passing, because at least Prop 8 can be voted out some time in the future, while I think that high speed rail would have been in much worse shape if it hadn’t passed in 2008.

By: mds

mds — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 03:00:10 +0000

Yeah, where’s the love for the Mojave National Preserve?

Hang on… Has anyone ever seen Michael Bérubé, Chris Clarke, and Harry Reid in the same room?

Because if they were all drunk* and wearing clown costumes at the time, that would be awesome.

*Yes, yes, Latter Day Saints don’t get drunk. They also don’t seek funding for direct night trains to brothels, but that doesn’t seem to have stopped Harry Reid.

By: Perezoso

Perezoso — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 00:34:03 +0000

an add-on: the Villaraigosa Desert-Zephyr Metrolink, like on some old freight rail, with a few switches, one ending at the edge of the Boron strip mine, every few months launching the suckas out into empty space for a few glorious seconds. Heh. And some boo-coo kickbacks when the peoples got to rebuild the mutha-f-er.

By: Michael Bérubé

Michael Bérubé — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 21:40:45 +0000

I was thinking the monorail was more of a Shelbyville idea, but . . . all right, I'll tell you what I'll do. I'll link to Brianz's idea!

By: Mo MacArbie

Mo MacArbie — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 20:49:51 +0000

So the Republicans warn us of this train in vain?