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Cardiff's Torrey Pine comes down amid suspicions
Everybody's an environmentalist until it's inconvenient. In my neighborhood on the south slope of Mt Soledad, there's a Torrey, probably planted in 1960, maybe 80 feet tall. (Pacifica was designed by the late architect and landscape architect, William Krisel.) Neighbors plot against the tree because it drops needles and "blocks their view." Let's set aside the relative aesthetic value of a rare, mature tree compared to the sprawling, overbuilt and under planned area below, especially the glaringly lit car lots and golf course juxtaposing Mission Bay. The tree provides shade, cooling by transpiration, a sonorous windbreak. It's a community of wildlife like none other within a mile. But they want to chop it down after their devious plans to kill it succeed so it doesn't scatter pine needles on the pavement. The San Diego City Save-A-Tree program already got chopped. Multiple attempts to contact the arborist after submitting the application on the tree's behalf have failed. Trees cannot fight for their lives. We must.— September 4, 2019 5:21 p.m.
CaptainObvious: How about a little more depth? Is Beccera behind t...
So this is insurance covering criminal liability? Is there even such a thing? Or does it just cover the doctor's bills for people you shoot? Or if you're a criminal, is this like business insurance, so you can shoot people who might shoot you because you're stealing from them. Because the NRA is offering lessons in shooting people, I really have to take exception with shooting people recreationally, though. That's a good policy, especially when health insurance is so hard to get. What if somebody got shot recreationally and they didn't have insurance and the shootor (policy talk) didn't have shooting-other-people insurance? The shootee would be shit out luck. And if they shoot each other? Dead? Shouldn't they pay each other? Better insurance would be, don't have a gun. Let the stealer steal and then make a claim on your homeowner policy. You wanted a new one of whatever they stole anyway.— September 19, 2018 4:15 p.m.
Don Bauder: Psychodlzard: I adore the Adagietto from the Mahle...
Thank you for all those brave and careful stories and fair responses that followed them. You've lead the many who are less brave and chastened those who are less careful.— September 19, 2018 11:06 a.m.
Teens to flip Jack in the Box burgers gone
Your self-description has a tacit clue. You're experienced (aka "old"). Or as the quote from Mr Blair puts it, you've already have valuable (wage valuable) "skills" which actually are part of "attitude." Employers want robots that don't have ideas about what they expect in schedules and benefits, do things neither the right way nor the wrong way but the company way and most important of all, aren't as old as their parents. But you already know that. It's the unfairness and, more to the point as an engineer, counter-productivity you can't accept.— September 13, 2018 1:30 p.m.
Megafloods coming? Scientists uneasy.
It's good to get the public and responsible jurisdictions stirred up about threats, but saying "If such megafloods come every 200 years, the clock may be ticking…" is just wrong. The practical risks of flooding are extremely complex. Like other end-of-days predictions, when it doesn't happen, it's the end of prediction. In the spirit of gross over-simplification, if I flip 100 heads in a row, the chance of the next flip being heads is… same as ever, 50/50. So while it may be true that historic, regressive analysis shows trends and tendencies, modeling future activity on a much shorter time scale is pretty iffy. Ask somebody with Qualcomm stock. What were the chances a totally unqualified and dangerous clown could become the most powerful man in the world? Still, as my mom used to say, "plan for the worst, you'll never be disappointed."— May 2, 2018 3:13 p.m.
The trade war that could wallop San Diego
I'm going to be uncharacteristically optimistic here. No kid dreams of a lifetime bolting fenders on cars. Bring on the robots for all the repetitious, mind- and body-numbing jobs. Same with stoop labor and the uncertainty of farming, the lifework that industrial labor replaced. So what's next? Something better. It could hardly be worse. The pain of transition (let's call it progress) was worth it in the whole of history, at least as far as I've studied, which is frankly mostly Monty Python movies.— March 16, 2017 1 p.m.
Palomar College professor picket
Visduh, it turns out that being a boss is different, especially at a college. There's a reason to be interested in why somebody would want to go from being a teacher to being a boss. It may be a good reason. Often it isn't. Deans are relatively low on the management scale, and those jobs pay more than teaching, but for the most part teachers aren't working to get rich. So your idea that maybe right; it was a job for a lone ranger type, who shouldn't be surprised if they are expected to ride out after their work is done. (Teachers tend to teach until they drop, in the same room they started in often, while administrators climb from one job to the next, going wherever they aren't already hated.)— March 16, 2017 12:35 p.m.
Prime Healthcare charged for alleged false claims
Respect and admiration to Ms Berntsen, the reported "whistleblower," a silly descriptor for a serious individual. Blowing a whistle is fun, but being the one who has the moral strength to truly do their job is not. She is the antithetical hero to the sneaky, albeit alleged, villain who uses their job to unfair advantage. Rules don't work without people like Ms Berntsen. Hooray for her.— May 26, 2016 9:21 a.m.
Mission Hills/Hillcrest Library project may start this year
You ain't even kiddin', GaryAllmon. Of course, hiring the protection mob for their expertise would grease the way. If you can't beat 'em, pay 'em. Unless progress is in fact impossible and everything old should be eternal, in which case, let the righteous prevail! Onward to where we are.— April 29, 2016 7:22 p.m.
Hispanic entrepreneurs do best in Texas
We had a mayor who was going to open an office as the City of San Diego liaison in Tijuana. He didn't last long. Our metropolitan area is divided by more than an international border. Exceptionalism doesn't translate into any-friendliness. It's mutually impoverishing. What should we learn from those Texans?— April 28, 2016 3:10 p.m.