Congestion pricing for San Francisco? What a brilliant idea. Oh, except for the low-income people who can’t afford to live in San Francisco, but do have jobs there, and can’t use the public transit system because it is so poorly organized. Maintaining a DNA database of people who have never been convicted of crimes has …
Daily Archives: 5 December, 2008
The Verdict
The phone problem, which I have been fighting the phone company for over a year over? The intermittent connectivity? The slow connection speeds? It took the technician all of three minutes to replace my corroded phone jack and (hopefully) entirely resolve the problem. Now, why couldn’t the phone company have sent a technician out when …
The Magical Solution to the Economic Crisis
Given the growing magnitude of the depression economic crisis, I may have to add an “economy” category. I’ve been putting it off for several months now in the optimism that either I would stop having something to say about it, or that our all-powerful government would magically pull its head out of its rump and …