A measure of rage is appropriate if disaster is due to self-interest rippling and causing failure through the world. With foresight foreshortened, we had a financial crisis brewing for a number of years. Studying the current financial collapse, it's clear that the house of cards collapsing was not only predictable, but predicted; the house of ( Read more... )

That's with a question mark, there's that magical combination of skills and corporate/employer needs that spells "fit".  I finally have some decent interviews coming up- one on Tuesday and one next week.

( Homeless program )

I intended to make recommendations on ballot initiatives previously, and attended a forum at UCLA's School of Public Policy featuring my local Democratic Assemblywoman and one of the world's most evil and cynical republicans.  That was last Thursday, and I haven't had time to write up recommendations.

By fortune, my old friend
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I've been staying with my friends out in Pomona, it's been a good month. They are great hosts. I have my computer set up here and have mostly worked from here, which is great since my new boss hasn't found an office space near him in Santa Monica that fits both of us yet ( Read more... )

I'm an urban planner and I have done low income housing development, and this decision doesn't seem so far-fetched. Libertarians would tell us that this decision erodes the freedom and property rights of everybody, but the power of eminent domain is very constricted. It depends on State laws which implement and control takings, and there is ( Read more... )