All the news and views fit to consume during your morning grumpy. 1. Keep it local, keep it just. That’s the goal of a new petition being circulated by local business organization Buffalo First. If public monies are to be used for waterfront development and our strategies are to be developed in a community-oriented manner, [...]

Grain Elevator by buffalogeek via the AV Photo Daily Flickr Group

The Mercedes-Benz 230 was built from 1965-1968, and was generally referred to as the Fintail, for obvious reasons. The 230 was the six-cylinder version of the four-cylinder-powered 200 and diesel-powered 200D. These cars were produced during the years when Studebaker-Packard was the official U.S. importer of Mercedes-Benz cars, and they were responsible for a good [...]

Check back on AV Daily on December 29 for Tom Tomorrow’s Year in Review, Part 2!

On Thursday, December 22, 2011 at 5:00 PM, the Lloyd Taco Truck will pull into Niagara Square to give 75 burritos and beverages to the Occupy Buffalo protesters on behalf of First Presbyterian Church of Buffalo. This goodwill activity is being funded as a mission project by the church. “The Occupy movement is a peaceful [...]

If I published an “Alan Bedenko Liberty Newsletter” that contained anti-Semitic, conspiratorial, and racist rantings written in the first person, I’d expect people to question that. For some reason, Iowa frontrunner Ron Paul believes that he doesn’t deserve similar scrutiny. The copyright was held by “Ron Paul & Associates, Inc.” He’s busy having hissy fits [...]

It’s typically Buffalo that we can’t just have one #Occupy group in town, but we have Occupy Buffalo in Niagara Square, and Occupy WNY in Lafayette Square. We love to needlessly duplicate efforts in almost all things.

Coming down from a high by Tom Mazur via the AV Photo Daily Flickr Group.

It’s the 1973 Dodge Coronet that Felix and Oscar won in a radio contest on the episode of The Odd Couple titled “The New Car.” (Not to be confused with a really awful movie I watched the other night called “The Car” which we’ll get to another time.) Perhaps the most difficult part of owning [...]

Councilman Joseph Golombek has circulated the proposed food truck law for the city of Buffalo reproduced below for review by his colleagues on the council and the food truck stakeholders and their opponents. It is a compromise measure that incorporates the only two complaints that really came up as legitimate concerns on the part of [...]

Camaro SS by BuffaloPundit via the AV Photo Daily Flickr Group. (This was taken as part of this ad for West-Herr Automotive): 2011 Chevy Camaro -West Herr Chevrolet from WNYMedia Services on Vimeo.

Since the downfall of the Soviet Union and its satellite colonies, the volume and quality of good, old-fashioned communist propaganda has diminished exponentially. I think this may have something to do with how easily and cavalierly people accuse, e.g., centrist Democrats of being “socialists” or similar.  There are only a small handful of remaining hardcore [...]

All the news and views fit to consume during your morning grumpy. 1. During the busy holiday season, sometimes we all need a little pick-me-up. I know that I’ve found myself waiting in a long line at a store, wishing I could hear some god damned Hall & Oates to cool me out. Well, the [...]

A while back we shared a photo of a Dodge Demon which looked to be in showroom shape. As you may know, the Demon was based on Plymouth’s Duster, which came before it, with minor trim changes. Well, for comparison’s sake, here’s a 1971 Plymouth Duster. I’d have to call it “not exactly showroom shape.” [...]

Click here to read how corporate “logistics” actually translates into nightmare jobs worthy of a Charles Dickens novel. Sprawling warehouses full of Asian goods are emptied and filled by under-paid, uninsured per-diem workers laboring under the constant threat of being replaced by the temp agencies that contract with retail giants like Wal*Mart. The pressure on [...]