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In Transition
Maybe it's time to stop subsidizing mass transit, and make it pay it's own way, like the post office. If fares covered costs, we wouldn't have to talk about outsourcing as a way to reduce them. It would also allow people to understand the true operating costs of these mass transit systems, and maybe the next bond boondoggle that appeared on the ballot would be looked at in a different light.— May 30, 2009 4:49 p.m.
Phil Spector and the Police (not a new band, new criminals)
What do you think of the O-side cop that had to shoot his own son, because he was beating up his Mom? And the other notable fact: The son was a former SDSU football player.— May 30, 2009 4:41 p.m.
A Picture's Worth 1,000 Words
Come om Fred, give us an example. I'm ready to be inspired.— May 29, 2009 1:42 p.m.
A Picture's Worth 1,000 Words
Kavya Shivashankar won the whole thing. To win they made her spell her name.— May 29, 2009 12:55 a.m.
A Picture's Worth 1,000 Words
In my nebulous opinion, suicides like this are either cries for help, or F-U's to society. I feel sorry for them either way, but I also hope I'm not the one stuck in traffic because of them. Neither way is rational. The rational example is the person who is dying of cancer and doesn't want to go through it. He does it like you said. He sees Paris like he always wanted to do, and then makes an appt. with Dr. Kevorkian. Just throwin' my rubber ball...........— May 29, 2009 12:24 a.m.
Parents Taking Care of Children
I don't flame threads, I provoke thought. Your first comment about the sex talk made me wonder if you were one of those parents who exposes their kids to material they aren't ready for, like in Josh's example about kids in movies they shouldn't be seeing. Hence my comment about parents treating their kids like mini-adults. I really believe that is the single biggest problem with parenting today. If it doesn't apply to you, good. I'm glad. You'll have to judge for yourself. Your comments in general made wonder if you had a kind of "laissez-faire" attitude about parenting. That your job is to educate the kids, tell them about the dangers of things (which is great if done at a developmentally-appropriate age), but then you're done. If they then run out into the street without looking, you're absolved of responsibility. You told them what to do. And I was trying to make the point that parents job is to protect kids from themselves. Kids aren't legally independent until 18 for a reason. Because they have bad judgement. They do dumb things. It is a parents job to make them safe in spite of themselves. Expecting them to make good decisions as long as they have the information is foolish. Now to me the only reason to be offended by anything I've said is if you think it applies to you. If you do, instead of being offended maybe you should be thanking me for making you think about it.— May 28, 2009 10:15 p.m.
Parents Taking Care of Children
I never called you a bad parent. You used your experiences as an example and I generalized from them. The only one who can call you a bad parent is you, if you think the shoe fits.— May 28, 2009 5:16 p.m.
Parents Taking Care of Children
Substance: "talking to your kids about sex "at an early age". Depending on what this means, this is bad parenting. Young kids aren't prepared to hear those kind of things. All you do is confuse them." Substance: "as a parent your job is to constantly be thinking about what that might be, thinking FOR the kid, because they're too young to do it for themselves". Substance: "This is the biggest problem with parenting today. Parents treating their kids like mini-adults. They're not." You can say my comments are "inflamatory", but the only thing "nebulous" is your intellect.— May 28, 2009 5:13 p.m.
Parents Taking Care of Children
Why do parents always react like this. "How dare you criticize my parenting" as they let their kid play in traffic. Either answer the substance of what I said, or let us all assume I'm right.— May 28, 2009 4:33 p.m.
Parents Taking Care of Children
Josh I may be wrong but from what I heard the Walters and Whoopi story was true. Now I didn't hear him talking on the radio, so he may have done what these right-wing radio guys like to do, which is turn everything into an issue that will fire up their ignorant listeners. Instead of reporting "I met Barbara Walters and Whoopi Goldberg on the train-they had to save a seat for them to protect them from the fans" his take is "those Hollywood liberals all think they're better then you". For instance I was listening to KOGO last night before you came on, and the host was baiting his listeners talking about some company that made it's employee take down the American flag. The response was predictable. The problem is I'm willing to bet he's not reporting the story accurately. This is the problem with all the people that listen to right-wing radio or watch fox news and think they're getting their news. Not only are they getting a biased opinionated version of the news, but they may not even be getting an accurate version of it.— May 28, 2009 4:19 p.m.