The second map in this posting at Strange Maps says it all.

The murder was a "random" and "possibly gang-related" walkby shooting on the levee by Jesse Street (which is the next neighborhood across the river from here -- the one called "River Flats" which is our most notorious "bad" neighborhood now that Beach Flats is somewhat cleaned up. Zack lives in that neighborhood, and so did we thirty-some years ( Read more... )

From the NOAA site, we learn this ( Read more... )

The State Supreme Court just upheld Proposition 8.

They're leaving in the several-many thousand marriages, though.

I'm going to go vote against the whole shebang of propositions in a minute ( Read more... )

A fire started near Martin Road in Bonny Doon yesterday around three in the afternoon. By four, they had begun evacuating the residents (1400 or so of them: this is an area often referred to as "rural Bonny Doon," though its social characteristics are rather more suburban ( Read more... )

food porn ahead, I guess. Not quite irreproducible recipes. Almost ( Read more... )

No, it's not my Bay, that would be Monterey Bay, but it's our Bay. The San Francisco Bay is the outlet for the whole Central Valley and two rivers which may not look mighty on your world map but which deliver (where's my California Rivers book? It's usually right here) astonishing amounts of water. The Delta system begins at the bay (or ends ( Read more... )

Del's right: I was dazzled enough by the first site I came to comparing Homeland Security figures that I didn't look at it critically or go looking for a better presentation. The Federation of American Scientists has a PDF file with tables in it, and as expected, the situation, which looked plenty confusing before, looks even more confusing when ( Read more... )

Apparently, if you're going to post a poll, you have to post it before you put in the content that leads up to it ( Read more... )