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Cleaning Up California
I made a comment on Digg today about the state California is in. Someone posted that analysts think that it will take California until 2014 to recover, and I replied that if we recovered that soon, I was going to be -really- surprised.
That got me to thinking -- what would be a way that California -could- recover itself? My thoughts are below:
( Fixing California, after the jump ) -
Peace Prize Update: I was right.
Just wanted a quick 'I was right' shout-out about my opinion of why Obama deserves the Peace Prize. I said that it wasn't for things that he said he was going to do, but for things that he has -already done- which we Americans don't care about because we don't really give a shit about anything that happens outside our borders, but which the rest ( Read more... ) -
Why Obama deserves the peace prize
There has been a lot of talk over the internets lately about how Barack Obama doesn't deserve to have won the nobel peace prize. Certainly, some of it has merit. We're still in Iraq. We're still in Afganistan. Guantanamo bay has yet to close. On the surface, it would seem that Obama's prize is focused on things he would like to do, not on ( Read more... ) -
Things
How come every time I fall in love with a product, it gets discontinued behind my back ( Read more... ) -
Learning by fucking up
I learn by fucking up ( Read more... ) -
Nightmare
Had a really brutal nightmare last night. I don't want to get into the details, but needless to say, my subconscious, in its attempts to tear me down, went straight for the jugular. I woke up after sleeping for only four hours, and didn't go back to sleep, because I was afraid of it starting up again. I went through the day in a haze, not ( Read more... ) -
California: It's for the rich
Well, the state has already burned through half its firefighting budget fighting the big fire down near LA. A lot of the problem is that they can't just put in a good sized firebreak and let it burn, because there's a ton of houses built by people with no common sense out in the middle of fire country that the firefighters have to try and save, ( Read more... ) -
Guess what Sam's been up to?
In case anyone's wondering what Sam's been up to ( Read more... ) -
Outlay: A healthcare parable
There's been a lot of talk recently about Obama's healthcare plan. Is it necessary? Is there going to be some kind of bureaucrat standing between me and my doctor who is worse than the profit-motivated HMO bureaucrat who currently stands between me and my doctor? But mostly, people are asking: Will it cost too much? How can we afford it ( Read more... )