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The cost of housing in CA wasn't so divergent then from the national average (I actually think prop 13 contributes a lot to houses being way more...

" I got some real honest-to-god battles to fight, Leo. I don't have time for the cosmetic ones." Admiral Percy Fitzwallace in The West Wing.

I think that the Calif prop 13 property tax structure was inintiated due to the high cost of housing and what were pretty rampant rises in prop taxes...

My experience in dealing with human beings is that you're bound to be offended by them. Thick skin is your friend.

Don't sweat the small stuff and this is small stuff, IMHO.

This is going to be a huge inconvenience to N-S freeway traffic--the detours are circuitous and bound to slow everything down. I feel sorry for...

Okay I can see that. I guess saying it to me as a single parent just wasn't nice and sometimes people say crap that they do not think about, not that...

I'm not sure it goes to repair enough bridges or that the infrastructure is in any better shape but it doesn't seem that difficult to raise taxes to...

Maybe he did see affection modeled by his parents; maybe he saw it modeled by others. Maybe he's just a naturally affectionate kid. I don't see the...

Then how can we ensure that oldthinkers realize their crimethink is doubleplusungood?

There will be many things to say about government and infrastructure related to this incident, but I do think it was nice to have a little miracle...

So your supervisor ventured a guess about the living situation of one of your students and was wrong. Ok, people make errors. Since most...

I saw this too and it is absolute craziness! I am so thankful that no one got hurt...but it is time to wake up and start addressing the crumbling...

Congratulations! I am so happy that you are doing this on your terms and have a fall back to make money if you want to! Love serendipity!

It's amazing that no one was killed. Amazing!

http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/24/video-of-bridge-collapse-north-of-seattle/?hp

This is a bridge on the federal Interstate system, and as such the Feds pay for 90/95% of the costs. So I might look to blame Washington DC and the...

Well I recently started driving and it's based on seniority since I'm number 115 in a company of 120. I also want to spend the summer with my dds 13...

This was totally unacceptable. There was a show briefly on the Discovery channel called "The crumbling of America". It showed the magnitude of...

It was over 5 years ago that the bridge collapse in Minneapolis occurred, and they rated all the bridges in the state, and found that a huge...

Back to having weird sleep problems...been mainly on the 6am shift and I am having a real hard time adjusting everything. Going back to coffee has...

Maybe now those idiots in Olympia will stop all this silly business about "we can't raise taxes" and actually get back to the business of governing...

Yea crazy, for anyone not west coast familiar, the I-5 is THE major interstate running north past the Canadian border and south I don't know how far...

An architect friend posted this, after talking with a structural engine friend of his: "wow, sounds like an oversized load vehicle hit the...