Boxer / Obama 2008 Bumper Sticker
The cure for traffic chaos? Remove the signs, lines, lights.
By Mark Rice-Oxley :: Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor
I would love to experience this firsthand. The US is so pedestrian unfriendly that I think that this would either solve our problems or fail utterly. On the path that I walk, there are three street crossings and despite the very clear pedestrian crossing signs, a frightfully high number of people actually accelerate while approaching those zones.
My favorite columnist, Maureen Dowd, has written some very vitriolic pieces lately, including today's column. It's great to see. Our administration is so incredibly corrupt in so many ways yet the press is not doing its job of telling us that. Maureen and Jon Stewart bravely tell it like it is, but these two voices are drowned out by the cacophony of right-wing Bushities disguised as (or labelled as) "mainstream, liberal press" journalists. Soviet Russia was Pravda and Pravda was Soviet Russia. See any connections between them and us? Perhaps we miss them so much that we are becoming them. The Cold War is alive and well and the Soviets are winning!! Even Marx must be befuddled.
Yesterday in the mail I recieved a Consumer Information Catalog put out by the government folks in Pueblo, CO. It's an index of guides for consumers, citizens, job hunters and small business owners that are available for purchase. Many of these are available free online. My favorite is For the Birds, a guide to attracting and understanding backyard birds which is located in their "and more..." section.