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Asanga's path to perfection
Huh?— March 8, 2018 12:30 p.m.
Rogue docent theory on Torrey pines die-off
This is fascinating. There appears to be a huge die off in Torrey Pines over the last few years. It's very noticeable. I have hiked both the Preserve and the Extension since the late 1980s. I'd like to know what's going. This die-off appears more extreme than any that has occurred before. It would seem in the best interest of the Preserve to discover what is causing the die off. But perhaps it's something too extreme for them/us to deal with anyway, so best to pretend it's something we can control to make all of us feel better.— February 13, 2018 10:05 a.m.
The top ten trees of Balboa Park
Wonderful article. Thanks for writing it. It has inspired me to do my own tree survey on my next trip to Balboa Park.— November 25, 2017 9:37 p.m.
People living in cars and RVs stand up to city
What a nightmare. We are all trapped between this corporate oligarchy and a corrupt government that tries to extract whatever money it can off people (the vast majority of us) who are suffering immeasurably.— September 17, 2017 9:19 a.m.
Rancho Peñasquitos' Andy Wiess reviving Crown Books
"I found one of each of the last decade’s best selling self-help books by Dr. Laura Schlessinger, including 10 Stupid Things Men Do To Mess Up Their Lives. The chapter titles appeared to be relevant today." That's a joke, right? An unpleasant entity, who has taken on all the dysfunctional characteristics she attributed to her parents, and, during the 90s, inflicted them on anyone insane enough to listen (which, apparently, is enough people to make her very wealthy. Ugh. Insufferable, Schlessinger is. Just reading the bits and pieces in her Wikipedia bio makes me pissed off.— July 4, 2017 4:26 p.m.
Deep inside Doug Manchester’s money machine
We're living in the 19th century again, in terms of corruption, income disparity, lack of oversight, lack of democratic process with regards to how governments interact with corporations. Or is it even worse, due to the complexities of globalization?— June 30, 2017 5:32 p.m.
Morris Cerullo gets nod for Bible resort in Mission Valley
A perfect fit, for our money-laundering, tax-evading, neo-Calvnist culture! Who needs health insurance, or any social support at all, when you can launder money and be "healed" by "faith" alone? And, if you don't get healed miraculously or find money magically dropping out of the sky, you're not praying right, or, it's just "God's plan." Wow, "planning commission," is this really the best we can do? I guess so. No one left except fraudulent millionaire and billionaire takers to provide anything of real value to the American public.— June 26, 2017 6:28 p.m.
National City students least fit out of 42 school systems in San Diego County
After all that has happened in the United States over the past 30-40 years, are Americans still blind to the fact that the Horatio Alger myth (and our elites' infatuation w/Ayn Rand-inspired Calvinist neoliberalism) is so far beyond believable (and so far beyond resolving intractable class division; in fact, it increases class division) that it is offensive to even write articles like these? Of course there large numbers of fast food chains in South Bay, and of course the students in South Bay--west of the I-805--struggle more than most with functioning in an academic environment and with obesity (and probably, a great deal of food insecurity)! Of course they do! Our economic system is set up to ensure that they do, in spite of what anyone might say. Many kids in South Bay west of I-805 do not come from families blessed with the built-up class privilege/leverage necessary to produce the faux appearance of "accomplishment" so common in most of our elites' families. No, what these students get is a heavy dose of popular culture, a popular culture that with its increasing social liberalism still completely glosses over the failure of our economic system, instead promoting the very same conservative economic mythology of "self-made personhood" that it purportedly blames are societal "regressiveness" on. Might we not be better served by acknowledging that multigenerational poverty creates layers of mental health and other problems that makes movement out of one's social class near impossible, and that to pretend that it is mystery why kids in South Bay are struggling academically and with obesity is an offense to those dealing with such overwhelming issues? I say this not to criticize the writer of the article, but to promote the idea that we as a society need to examine some of our foundational myths to determine if we can continue to build a functional democracy by maintaining them with such blind rigidity in adhearing to them but pretending that they do not exist at the same time. In my opinion, we cannot.— June 18, 2017 1:10 a.m.
Scategories with Wolfgang
"...in the 18th Century the 99 percent had no political life whatsoever. The ruling class was exactly that — a class which ruled based on heredity." I think we delude ourselves if we think things have changed that much. All of these toys, but so little power. The 1% (those with the most money) still "control" much of what occurs in our world. Certainly, we have the ability to "ignore" it more, or at least it seems that way for those of us with a modicum of financial stability. But I'd argue that America's political system has been riddled with leaders based on heredity.— June 9, 2017 4:11 p.m.
Angle parking for North Park may hang on who decides
This would create more parking spaces, right?— May 20, 2017 9:32 a.m.