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Hello Livejournal!
I am back from my 10 day trip to New England. The trip was a lot of hectic fun! I did get quality time with the dogs and with my family. I got to see many (though far from all) the people I wanted to see (*waves to all*). I hopefully convinced several people to come visit ( Read more... ) -
Please Come to Boston for the Springtime (and San Francisco for the Summer)
I just booked a round trip Virgin America ticket to Boston for $219 ( Read more... ) -
Always Everything at Once
I am back in school, am already overwhelmed, didn't feel the earthquake yesterday, and now am getting sick. :( -
Happy Pi Day!
Happy Pi Day! Today, we are packing up our apartment to move tomorrow to another apartment in the city. It's bigger, on a big hill, and has a really nice view of downtown! When I drive somewhere from it, I can imitate the car chase in "Bullit" going down the hill! What's not to like?
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Stimulus Stuff
Talking Points Memo, quoted entirely because I agree with every word:
This week, out on the broad wastes of cable news drekdom and the uplands of Beltway journalistic drivel, a simple fact has gone almost entirely unreported: virtually everything congressional Republicans are saying about the Stimulus Bill wouldn't cut it in remedial economics. Not ( Read more... ) -
Transit Subsidies
So this post from The Transport Politic discusses the rhetoric of "profitability" as it relates to transit systems. One justification provided for transit subsidy is that their are societal benefits in the form of social justice. While I don't disagree, I didn't think that was the strongest argument, so I posted the following comment. I'm ( Read more... )
