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San Diego killer drones for North Dakota
"Foreign" is a relative and fungible concept. "Pilot" is certainly an loose description of flying a plane you can't see, much less sit in. So whomever is playing with these nasty toys should think: "Never pick up a weapon you wouldn't want used against you. Sure as hell don't show others how to use it. The friend of their friend may not be your friend."— September 23, 2015 5:07 p.m.
No to Ridgewood Park eucalyptus cell phone tower
You can get busted in San Diego for holding a yoga class on a park lawn. There are reasonable arguments regarding park use when you have an entire park covered with yoga mats (Law St, PB) from which discussion I take a quick, if cowardly, exit. But a cell tower in a park or elementary school yard is clearly inconsistent usage with obscure consequences. How about your next door neighbor deciding their garage-based eBay operations could use a new income stream, so a cell tower thinly disguised as a palm tree pops up? Jealous over their income boost, your other neighbor cuts a deal for a tiny 30-foot wind power generator. You got power, you got communication. Bob_Hudson concedes whether it's legal or right, it's done. You also got a ding in property values, you got a humming noise and big trucks visiting, but that's progress. Legal or not, nature just slipped down another notch toward commerce, like planting a faux palm tree that communicates and makes money. (Not enough money to fix potholes, much less plant living palm trees, though.)— August 7, 2015 5:51 p.m.
Like SDSU, like Faulconer?
I'll rise to your bait, VISDUH: There's mission creep all up and down the line with public higher education, leaving vacuums where the various sub-systems were supposed to serve. The community colleges want to offer four-year degrees, the state colleges (which sometimes call themselves universities) want to do research instead of teach, and the universities popped over the top and want to be hot houses for international business. (Teaching is easy work, if you ask me. I've both worked and taught in my profession for 40 years, with excellent reviews from institutions and students. Just a bit of disclosure.) Your characterizations of the various sub-systems is fair, but another way to parse the duties would be: community colleges providing local jobs for local adults, colleges providing regional managerial-level support, and the UC system providing intellectual (and real estate) capital for the state. These basic charters make good sense, but there's no connection between good sense and common practice.— August 7, 2015 9:39 a.m.
Ales Spanos – beneficiary of public largesse
I'm not going to touch the relationship between stupidity and being a sports fan, but it may reduce the confusion to separate the phrase "sports fans" from "sports." Professional big league sports are entertainment. Those who watch have little relation with sports, which is an activity. Watching is hardly an activity. Too bad all the interest in professional "sports" doesn't encourage more "fans" to get off the couch and do sports. The difference between watching and doing may not be stupid, it may be perverse.— July 22, 2015 9:12 p.m.
Maybe they come for the low hotel taxes?
Using wages, especially minimum wage, as an exclusive metric for worker compensation makes an easy target for owners who cheap out on labor. They can shoot down a one dimensional stat with a bunch of other data points. Working conditions, career paths, scheduling, job security, a voice in continuous improvement of their duties and, as long as we're listing things, medical insurance, retirement, and paid leave have more to do with retention and job satisfaction than the first pay check. Ever since the days of tent cities around the Hotel Del, San Diego has been a cheap vacation, so we're locked in a position of being the destination for people who can't stand spending another summer day at home but can't spend much or go far. And once again, the room rate may seem high but they're basically getting a glitzy tourist class hotel in an overcrowded urbanized beach city, a couple hour drive from their very similar home, minimizing challenges of both distance and cultural dislocation. So they drive in, buy a hamburger and a t-shirt, get a sunburn and drive home, maybe a day or two later. Some vacation. Some tourist destination. That wall of big hotels along our waterfront has damaged San Diego in so many ways.— July 2, 2015 12:18 p.m.
In San Diego versus Chargers, is next move up to Beutner?
You elites can be so heartless. What aspirations will our children have after they've been playing in the million dollar plus football stadiums at their high schools, knocking their heads together until they can't remember their times tables, so they are unfit for anything but tailgating? Can't you see their disappointment when their heroes must play in a dirty old used football stadium where we pay for seats, occupied or not? Do you begrudge them the estimated billion dollars of taxpayer money for a nice new stadium, so they can learn the lessons of NFL and buy a shirt with somebody else's name on it? Do expect our children to play in sandlots with no uniforms, coaches, referees, or screaming parents? Do you expect our leaders to watch from open benches with no private bar? Football! You dare question the unlimited value of football? Communists!— June 19, 2015 9:08 p.m.
But what are we manufacturing?
There's "teachers" and then there's "teachers." Especially among college professors, way too many (according to state limits and good educational policy) are "adjunct" (aka, freeway flyers) who might show up on the first day of a semester and find out the class didn't fly, typically because they get the least desirable classes. In that case, the administration says here's a couple bucks for your trouble, thank you and good bye. Thousands of California's teachers are marginally employed (no security, benefits, seniority, standing in assignment of office space and support, etc.), especially in the eyes of a loan officer, so don't begrudge them getting unemployment compensation (which they pay into) when they are unemployed.— June 19, 2015 8:48 p.m.
Megan's Law, Step-Grandpa — deal with it
Interesting times. A majority of the population, of every stripe, "evolves" to accept homosexuality while prosecuting to the fullest extent of the law parents who let their kid walk down the block to a public park, alone. In recent local history, a woman who commanded military forces brought down a duly elected administration by saying somebody talked dirty to her. An article about a bad dog bite spins up more political energy than everyone getting hosed by its energy supplier. And Denny Hastert gorges himself at the public trough while attention is diverted to righteous warfare against godless infidels. He falls when it turns out he was spending his blood money to cover up allegations of wrestling a student outside the bounds of propriety. You couldn't make this stuff up.— June 1, 2015 3:36 p.m.
Famed architect unveils design for new Chargers venue
This column, the editorial mirror image of "native advertising," squanders Reader credibility. Read on a mobile device or glanced at in a busy day, the satirical intent does not prevail, demonstrably. The editors should decide if this satire feature is worth the ongoing misunderstanding. Snarky writing and diffusion on one hand, the only widely distributed serious journalism on the other. Both doesn't happen.— June 1, 2015 3:05 p.m.
Too much sexy times in Oceanside
It does sound like Oceanside has been recognized as an easy mark. My point is that this is a societal problem, driven by what appears to be good intentions and protected by mass psychological phenomena. The READER story playing concurrently about the poor guy that got trashed at SDSU shows the damage this excess of zeal causes. Let's all be careful in characterizing individuals, even those found guilty by our courts, with generalized damnation. Reputations are easily destroyed, rarely repaired.— May 12, 2015 10:55 a.m.