Ah, so the real reason people with kids live in different places than people without kids – it’s hard to find a three bedroom place in the hip parts of town. In Response To: “A Return to City Life After […]
Howard Ahmanson
Why I Could Never Be a Good Catholic
I think most anti-Catholicism is either based on rather outdated stereotypes or is the “anti-Semitism of the respectable” as has often been said. Nevertheless, there are several reasons why I would find it difficult to be a good Catholic [it […]
Moralistic Therapeutic Deism
Sometimes there are advantages to my advanced age. The World magazine article here from a few years ago was part of a major rumpus concerning something called Moralistic Therapeutic Deism that most of our adolescents, including many in evangelical churches, […]
Poll Shows ‘Sea Change’ in Californians’ Attitudes Toward Illegal Immigration
I personally favor some restrictions, but from a political view you can not win office by running against immigrants any more than Sitting Bull could have won the presidency campaigning against the white man. Yes, the average Californian is 30 […]
Who Are All These People on the Ballot?
Ballots nowadays are crowded with all kinds of names that one has never heard of, for offices one has never heard of. Originally the reason for all this was that these small local offices were closer to “the people” than […]
Proposition 14
I decided to vote for Proposition 14, which makes the general election a runoff between the two highest polling primary candidates even if they are in the same party. I decided that the effect of the proposition might be to […]
Girls Beat Boys: And Some Reasons Why Everyone Has to Have a Job Now
A lot of the gap between genders can be blamed on the fact that technology has made a lot of jobs physically easier and mentally harder. Women are still on the average physically weaker, so now a lot more jobs […]
An Even Better Butts Solution
I have long been an advocate that smokers should carry a little bag, like dog walkers, to clean up after themselves. But I saw an even better idea on a comment thread recently. That, like with bottles and cans, a […]
More Atlanta Oddities
The territory of Incorporated cities in Georgia is often circular, giving a stroking appearance on the map. They do not cover most of the urbanized territory. I would guess that half of Atlanta’s population of 5.9 million lives directly under one of the […]
Atlanta
As I take more of the tours provided by the New Urbanism conference I am attending, I get to find out some of the attractive and interesting things about Atlanta. It’s easy to dismiss: “Sprawlanta” When people from here want […]