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Neighborhood hood gets a new look
It's a good idea to get rid of the "masked bandit" logo, which, far from discouraging crime actually adds to the "pride" factor in the criminal mind. I want to scream at the moon every time the news anchors and others refer to terrorist nerds as "Lone Wolfs," which feeds the ego of the twisted minds. Dumb anuses!— July 6, 2015 9:07 p.m.
Chariot of fire
Dorian, We need more links to sources and details, such as how the Jeep actually started the fire. Thanks, Twister— July 6, 2015 8:05 p.m.
California's farm economy "ruined"
The problem is that we are withdrawing more from the (fluctuating) resource than is being put in.— July 6, 2015 1:04 p.m.
California's farm economy "ruined"
With respect to "ruin," the fact is that the Great Central Valley was a paradise of wild game which, if managed "sustainably," have supplied the actual protein NEEDS for a large population. Agriculture ruined that first, then proceeded to ruin the river systems, and now is depleting (by pumping at a much higher rate than the recharge rate, thus converting it from a sustainable resource to a finite one) the aquifer under it so much that major subsidence already has occurred. How that might affect earthquake faults remains to be seen.— July 6, 2015 1:02 p.m.
California's farm economy "ruined"
Re: Don Bauder July 5, 2015 @ 9:13 p.m. It doesn't require "downside" planning, per se, only planning per se, which includes comprehensive. What we have here is a failure to plan, or at best, incomplete or faulty planning. At worst, it is intentional deception, unfortunately the most likely case. However, I do not doubt that there are staff people who know what they are doing, and probably doing it well. But they dare not reveal the truth due to threats to their jobs and effectiveness. Silent heroes who know that whistle-blowers are "iced." Find out what bar they go to on TGIF, and buy them a drink. Then listen.— July 6, 2015 12:53 p.m.
Young, black, and...hassled?
Race is an invented, bogus concept. Gangs form around similarities like colors, cultures, and badges. What we allegedly have here is an apparent case of authoritarian gang violence. "First they came for the skin tones, then they came for the socialists, then they came for . . . (look in the mirror)."— July 6, 2015 12:43 p.m.
In fact, there's not a doctor in the house
Opinion data (for what it might be worth) always is tricky. In the case instant, the fact is that people would rather complain than compliment, so you're skewed from the start.— July 6, 2015 12:34 p.m.
Pro golfer problems
Even colleges of public health often conveniently ignore vector ecology at the microscopic level. You can SEE a mosquito, a dead crow, a dead horse (which, you can see, I am beating). One doctor from a local college believes that most of the post-storm runoff contamination into the ocean is due to dog and cat poop. Said doctor also doesn't believe that aspirating gutter-dust stirred up by "leaf" blowers is hazardous to our health. How many times have doctors told us exactly WHERE we acquired the pathogen(s) responsible for our illness(es)?— July 5, 2015 9:24 p.m.
California's farm economy "ruined"
I long ago gave up posting to my own blog because it (and other non-staff blogs) is invisible to Reader readers, but I may soon write a longer piece on it, due to the space limitations here. Briefly, y'all are quite right about "drought" being misused, primarily as a device to blame poor water-supply management on God or Nature. What we have here is a failure to communicate. Or a determination to mis-communicate?— July 5, 2015 8:26 p.m.
In fact, there's not a doctor in the house
I have been vacillating about vaccinations. With all doo-doo respect to the Kaiser Nut-House on Pt. Loma, I have always left there more depressed than when I went in. The last time I was there the shrink showed up in unmistakable religious garb. It was a waste of a 30-buck copay. As I am areligious, I do not want to be "treated" by people who "believe" rather than think. At first I thought this is wrong, but after careful consideration, I believe that all shrinks and doctors should wear visible IDs revealing their religious or intellectual affiliations--in other words, not hiding anything. They know my "religious" affiliation; why shouldn't I know theirs? The Kaiser ER has saved my old butt several times, but I have been screwed up and screwed by, every other hospital I have had the misfortune to end up in. Alex is probably more right than wrong, but in today's medical system, you had better have a relative, friend, or paid knee-breaker (an new profession in these days of shrinking jobs?) to look out for your best interests. Kaiser "family physicians" tend to be over-ridden by management to the point of neglecting patients and using pattern-recognition as a diagnostic "tool" rather than analysis. And rolling pills, then rolling them back--little consistency in matters of drugs in particular, when there could be. Non-answers and evasive answers to straight questions is a problem. The MDs don't have enough time to get to know their patients, and over-rely on computer information. How are they supposed to keep up? Find me an answer to these questions and I might re-consider signing up with the VA--at least they are more involved in research. We just had a friend with cancer released from the most prominent local cancer treatment center today. So narrow are the specialists they seem to have forgotten their grasp (if they ever had any) of the whole organism and how things like nutrition are crucial in a functioning immune system (among others) and let this patient get behind the power curve, which may turn out to be a death sentence. Maybe she would have been off at Kaiser?— July 5, 2015 8:07 p.m.