Uneasy Rhetoric

I’m a pretty liberal guy. Line up all my political issues and interests and you’ll find my boat listing to the left. But when the President is in town, you won’t find me on a freeway overpass waving a hand-painted sign about Iraq or anything else. I won’t be the guy on [...]

Office windows are a mixed blessing. I have one, and I can look outside at sunshine, blue sky, and green trees and think “I’m already distracted and burnt out enough at work. I don’t need this.”
So I’m breaking my no blogging at work rule to tell you all. That is all.

LivingInUrbanSac comes up with the goods. In two posts this week, he outlines some upcoming potential changes to the R Street corridor that virtually make me swoon:

The R Street Market Pedestrain Walkway and Plaza
The Pearl of California - R Street Corridor

I grew up close enough to R Street that I can still remember it, [...]

If there is one thing that is changing faster than the global climate, it is the rate at which scientists (and by “scientists” I am most definitely not including economists) and even nonscientists are abandoning the stance that global warming may not be at least a partial byproduct of human activity.
In today’s Bee, Dan Weintraub [...]

Given my recent discussion of commuting and transportation options, I thought I’d take a look at my commuting habits through history, starting with college. I should preface it by saying that I often walked home from school in junior high and high school. Even when I had a car.

1988-1992. I lived on [...]