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Gotta Keep Movin’ in O.B.
Terrific piece - thank you. I feel like I was with you and your dad on your Newport Avenue stroll. And your dad seems like a classy fellow. "I gotta keep movin'." Words to live by.
— February 1, 2009 9:05 p.m.
Neighborhood Blog Contest
here's how to enter: 1. on this page, click the link "Find your neighborhood or campus" 2. change the "Select your neighborhood" box to your neighborhood 3. scroll down, and click the link "Create a blog." This link is in the second column, about 1/3 of the way down the page. 4. log in to your SDReader account, if you are not already. Then fill out the form that creates your blog. I hope this helps. Good luck!
— January 31, 2009 4:38 p.m.
Is Moores Jumping Out Just in Time Again?
It ain't just Republican politicians who are part of the problem. I like Barack Obama a lot, but it breaks my heart when, after being asked if Bush's numerous crimes should be investigated, he says this: "I don’t believe that anybody is above the law, but we need to look forward as opposed to looking backwards." You know what they say about the more things change...
— January 16, 2009 2:24 p.m.
Is Moores Jumping Out Just in Time Again?
The Chargers must be kicking themselves for trying to squeeze more blood out of the San Diego turnip instead of jumping ship before the financial mess hit. Ain't no way this city is going to be paying for a stadium any time soon, and given the economic crash, public subsidizin' is a lot less likely to happen elsewhere, too. So if a new stadium is still the goal for the next few years, the team likely would have to pick up its own tab. What a concept! When it comes to the personal seat license deal, I don't have any objection. Owners of businesses should have the right to set prices as they wish. Of course, it does strike me as rather crass for teams to extend middle fingers to fans who supported the teams for years. I happened to be at this year's home opener of the New York Giants, who are going to a new PSL-heavy stadium next year...one of the team's owners took to the field at halftime to give a speech to the crowd over the PA...and his entire spiel was drowned out by boos. And given the new zeal for thriftiness that seems to be sweeping America, this seems like a tough time to start catering exclusively to wealthy clients. For example, the New York Jets will be playing in the same new stadium as the Giants, and in October, the Jets held an online auction for a small slice of the PSLs. Management has spun the auction as a success, but it is telling that, just prior to the auction, the number of auctioned seats was scaled down by 2/3.
— January 15, 2009 4:09 p.m.
Teachers and Bumper Stickers
Is society really getting more violent? I don't have any numbers in front of me, but I'm pretty sure they would support that 100 years ago, random murder was much more prevalent than it is today. And 200 years ago, it was worse than 100 years ago. And so on. You're much safer in the modern era, Ms. Grant, than in any other era you can zip to in your time machine. Same goes for rudeness, actually. Intuition tells me that the average person was much less concerned for the feelings of others than he or she is today. Sure, we got lots of jerks these days. But we got lots of nice folks, too. And I bet the jerks-to-nice-folks ratio has steadily declined over the centuries, just like the murder rate. Actually there is a great book on all this, The Progress Paradox by Gregg Easterbrook. The author gets into the numbers to argue that life today is better than ever before - longer life spans, more leisure time, more education - pretty much any metric you can think of shows you're better off in today's world. But the paradox part is that people's self-reported level of happiness hasn't really budged, at least not since it started being recorded in the mid-1900s.
— December 30, 2008 3:37 p.m.
Top 25 Movies of the Year
i guess brokeback, like all movies, works for some people and doesn't work for others. but for those who get it, brokeback really seems to pack some power and meaning. so it has to get props. i haven't seen it, but the debate above has sold me on checking it out. and i feel stupid for my Romeo & Juliet comparison above - brokeback certainly seems to have a whole lot more going on.
— December 12, 2008 6:22 p.m.
Just For Men
Happy b-day, Mr. Brizzolara! My gift to you is the suggestion that you see the movie Synechdoche, New York. I really really really think you might like it. Still playing at UA Horton Plaza... I appreciate your thoughts on the big 5-8, in all its glory, and lack of glory. Thanks for the frankness and honesty. Interesting that you put the birthday "base camp" at 35. I just turned 31, and 35 has become the first birthday I find myself dreading. Seems like the point where I can't deny adulthood any longer. Where the fantasies of what might lie ahead begin to be outweighed by the realities of what really does. So base camp is a great label for 35...it's where the real work begins... I also loved the line above about your tendency to rehearse your age 10 years in advance. I think I suffer from the reverse: a tendency to be about 10 years slower than average in my personal development. For instance, I recently figured out what my college major should be. But I graduated with a different major back in 1999. Oh well.
— December 12, 2008 11:04 a.m.
Top 25 Movies of the Year
Brokeback Mountain is like Romeo & Juliet, only with gay cowboys instead of rich teenagers, right? Love forbidden by the society of the lovers, and whatnot...yeah, yeah, yeah...been there, done that. I think Tropic Thunder would have been a great Saturday Night Live sketch...there are about 5 minutes of funny in there. The other 1.5-or-so-hours are 1.5-or-so-hours of your life you can never have back. I gotta see Burn After Reading...I love them Coen brothers, and if the Crasher made time for 3 viewings, it must be good. BTW, Josh, I'm going to go out on a limb and say Doubt won't interest you. Except maybe if you have a man crush on Philip Seymour Hoffman, or your parents were cruel enough to send you to Catholic school (which would likely be correlated with your man crush on Philip Seymour Hoffman). On the Dark Knight, my favorite line on that movie was from
someecards.com
, "the only thing creepier than Heath Ledger's performance was the studio's exploitation of Heath Ledger's performance." And whatever happened to Christian Bale's arrest for assaulting his mother and sister? I always wanted more details from that story, but the details never emerged. Where are the tabloids when you need 'em?
— December 12, 2008 9:49 a.m.
Andrea Tevlin, San Diego's budget analyst, too busy to talk
Response to post #21: Don and Fred, thanks for your points on deflation. Sounds like it may prove to be a big enough problem on its own to preempt the problem of long-term inflation. Almost feels like deflation is arriving already, with current sales on the goodies at the store, and the price of gas back below two bucks a gallon. And I guess what the Govt is doing right now is trying, rather desperately, to pump money supply into the situation, in the hopes of fighting deflation and instead bringing about the lesser evil, inflation. So I guess it's if the Govt gets it done, we get inflation. And if the Govt doesn't, we get deflation. I think I'm getting it now. But I'm not sure I like what I'm getting!
— December 7, 2008 9:58 p.m.
Andrea Tevlin, San Diego's budget analyst, too busy to talk
I'd say the author of post #1 is on to something, at least sort of. True crisis only hits pension plans when obligations must be paid but there isn't enough money in the kitty. Luckily, the City has some years before inability to pay becomes an issue - and in the interim, high inflation could very well come to the City's rescue. Inflation screws lenders (like employees who are owed pensions) while helping debtors (like pension plans) by reducing the real value of the money owed. If inflation ratchets upward significantly in the US over the next few years - which economic theory says it will, given the mind-boggling amount of Gov't spending going on right now - nominal prices of the City's pension assets will climb big time, while the City's obligations to pensioners stay flat. Voila, funding levels up, and insolvency avoided. Of course, the losers are the City retirees. They will still get their pensions of $30,000 or $50,000 or $80,000 a year. But by then, McDonalds employees will be making $100,000 a year, and Big Macs will cost $400 each. In fact, this is the scenario that will likely unfold across America in the years ahead. Inflation will enable us to pay all the bills out there, from mortgages to the national debt. But at the same time, it will eat away our purchasing power relative to our counterparts in India, China, and everywhere else. So enjoy your I-Pods and your Escalades while you can, folks!
— December 4, 2008 1:50 p.m.
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Gotta Keep Movin’ in O.B.
Terrific piece - thank you. I feel like I was with you and your dad on your Newport Avenue stroll. And your dad seems like a classy fellow. "I gotta keep movin'." Words to live by.— February 1, 2009 9:05 p.m.
Neighborhood Blog Contest
here's how to enter: 1. on this page, click the link "Find your neighborhood or campus" 2. change the "Select your neighborhood" box to your neighborhood 3. scroll down, and click the link "Create a blog." This link is in the second column, about 1/3 of the way down the page. 4. log in to your SDReader account, if you are not already. Then fill out the form that creates your blog. I hope this helps. Good luck!— January 31, 2009 4:38 p.m.
Is Moores Jumping Out Just in Time Again?
It ain't just Republican politicians who are part of the problem. I like Barack Obama a lot, but it breaks my heart when, after being asked if Bush's numerous crimes should be investigated, he says this: "I don’t believe that anybody is above the law, but we need to look forward as opposed to looking backwards." You know what they say about the more things change...— January 16, 2009 2:24 p.m.
Is Moores Jumping Out Just in Time Again?
The Chargers must be kicking themselves for trying to squeeze more blood out of the San Diego turnip instead of jumping ship before the financial mess hit. Ain't no way this city is going to be paying for a stadium any time soon, and given the economic crash, public subsidizin' is a lot less likely to happen elsewhere, too. So if a new stadium is still the goal for the next few years, the team likely would have to pick up its own tab. What a concept! When it comes to the personal seat license deal, I don't have any objection. Owners of businesses should have the right to set prices as they wish. Of course, it does strike me as rather crass for teams to extend middle fingers to fans who supported the teams for years. I happened to be at this year's home opener of the New York Giants, who are going to a new PSL-heavy stadium next year...one of the team's owners took to the field at halftime to give a speech to the crowd over the PA...and his entire spiel was drowned out by boos. And given the new zeal for thriftiness that seems to be sweeping America, this seems like a tough time to start catering exclusively to wealthy clients. For example, the New York Jets will be playing in the same new stadium as the Giants, and in October, the Jets held an online auction for a small slice of the PSLs. Management has spun the auction as a success, but it is telling that, just prior to the auction, the number of auctioned seats was scaled down by 2/3.— January 15, 2009 4:09 p.m.
Teachers and Bumper Stickers
Is society really getting more violent? I don't have any numbers in front of me, but I'm pretty sure they would support that 100 years ago, random murder was much more prevalent than it is today. And 200 years ago, it was worse than 100 years ago. And so on. You're much safer in the modern era, Ms. Grant, than in any other era you can zip to in your time machine. Same goes for rudeness, actually. Intuition tells me that the average person was much less concerned for the feelings of others than he or she is today. Sure, we got lots of jerks these days. But we got lots of nice folks, too. And I bet the jerks-to-nice-folks ratio has steadily declined over the centuries, just like the murder rate. Actually there is a great book on all this, The Progress Paradox by Gregg Easterbrook. The author gets into the numbers to argue that life today is better than ever before - longer life spans, more leisure time, more education - pretty much any metric you can think of shows you're better off in today's world. But the paradox part is that people's self-reported level of happiness hasn't really budged, at least not since it started being recorded in the mid-1900s.— December 30, 2008 3:37 p.m.
Top 25 Movies of the Year
i guess brokeback, like all movies, works for some people and doesn't work for others. but for those who get it, brokeback really seems to pack some power and meaning. so it has to get props. i haven't seen it, but the debate above has sold me on checking it out. and i feel stupid for my Romeo & Juliet comparison above - brokeback certainly seems to have a whole lot more going on.— December 12, 2008 6:22 p.m.
Just For Men
Happy b-day, Mr. Brizzolara! My gift to you is the suggestion that you see the movie Synechdoche, New York. I really really really think you might like it. Still playing at UA Horton Plaza... I appreciate your thoughts on the big 5-8, in all its glory, and lack of glory. Thanks for the frankness and honesty. Interesting that you put the birthday "base camp" at 35. I just turned 31, and 35 has become the first birthday I find myself dreading. Seems like the point where I can't deny adulthood any longer. Where the fantasies of what might lie ahead begin to be outweighed by the realities of what really does. So base camp is a great label for 35...it's where the real work begins... I also loved the line above about your tendency to rehearse your age 10 years in advance. I think I suffer from the reverse: a tendency to be about 10 years slower than average in my personal development. For instance, I recently figured out what my college major should be. But I graduated with a different major back in 1999. Oh well.— December 12, 2008 11:04 a.m.
Top 25 Movies of the Year
Brokeback Mountain is like Romeo & Juliet, only with gay cowboys instead of rich teenagers, right? Love forbidden by the society of the lovers, and whatnot...yeah, yeah, yeah...been there, done that. I think Tropic Thunder would have been a great Saturday Night Live sketch...there are about 5 minutes of funny in there. The other 1.5-or-so-hours are 1.5-or-so-hours of your life you can never have back. I gotta see Burn After Reading...I love them Coen brothers, and if the Crasher made time for 3 viewings, it must be good. BTW, Josh, I'm going to go out on a limb and say Doubt won't interest you. Except maybe if you have a man crush on Philip Seymour Hoffman, or your parents were cruel enough to send you to Catholic school (which would likely be correlated with your man crush on Philip Seymour Hoffman). On the Dark Knight, my favorite line on that movie was from someecards.com, "the only thing creepier than Heath Ledger's performance was the studio's exploitation of Heath Ledger's performance." And whatever happened to Christian Bale's arrest for assaulting his mother and sister? I always wanted more details from that story, but the details never emerged. Where are the tabloids when you need 'em?— December 12, 2008 9:49 a.m.
Andrea Tevlin, San Diego's budget analyst, too busy to talk
Response to post #21: Don and Fred, thanks for your points on deflation. Sounds like it may prove to be a big enough problem on its own to preempt the problem of long-term inflation. Almost feels like deflation is arriving already, with current sales on the goodies at the store, and the price of gas back below two bucks a gallon. And I guess what the Govt is doing right now is trying, rather desperately, to pump money supply into the situation, in the hopes of fighting deflation and instead bringing about the lesser evil, inflation. So I guess it's if the Govt gets it done, we get inflation. And if the Govt doesn't, we get deflation. I think I'm getting it now. But I'm not sure I like what I'm getting!— December 7, 2008 9:58 p.m.
Andrea Tevlin, San Diego's budget analyst, too busy to talk
I'd say the author of post #1 is on to something, at least sort of. True crisis only hits pension plans when obligations must be paid but there isn't enough money in the kitty. Luckily, the City has some years before inability to pay becomes an issue - and in the interim, high inflation could very well come to the City's rescue. Inflation screws lenders (like employees who are owed pensions) while helping debtors (like pension plans) by reducing the real value of the money owed. If inflation ratchets upward significantly in the US over the next few years - which economic theory says it will, given the mind-boggling amount of Gov't spending going on right now - nominal prices of the City's pension assets will climb big time, while the City's obligations to pensioners stay flat. Voila, funding levels up, and insolvency avoided. Of course, the losers are the City retirees. They will still get their pensions of $30,000 or $50,000 or $80,000 a year. But by then, McDonalds employees will be making $100,000 a year, and Big Macs will cost $400 each. In fact, this is the scenario that will likely unfold across America in the years ahead. Inflation will enable us to pay all the bills out there, from mortgages to the national debt. But at the same time, it will eat away our purchasing power relative to our counterparts in India, China, and everywhere else. So enjoy your I-Pods and your Escalades while you can, folks!— December 4, 2008 1:50 p.m.