Friday, January 31, 2025

"You say you want a revolution" repost -- I missed one

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  This definitely should have made the list: Johnnie Tallent is a callous young mod who lives with his elderly, invalid grandmother, Alic...
Thursday, January 30, 2025

I promised we'd get back to the goats.

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Let's be honest. The main reason I'm posting this is because it's a fun story and we don't get many of those in the wildfire...
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Wednesday, January 29, 2025

A bit of a brisk start to the new administration

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This is Joseph. Well, this news has caused no end of concern today. I am not sure exactly what is happening and it seems like everybody is ...
Tuesday, January 28, 2025

We'll come back to the Goat Fund Me proposal later

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As we have mentioned before, the reporting of NPR along with Propublica, Reveal, and Marketplace looks really good in retrospect. Perceptive...
Monday, January 27, 2025

Rain

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 We finally got our first real storm of the winter. Nothing torrential but a good steady rain stretched out over a couple of days. The snow ...
Friday, January 24, 2025

Getting your takes on California from publications with "New York" in their name may not be the smartest play

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The following comment is from David Wallace-Wells. It is part of a conversation he had with Jared Diamond in 2019 published in New York mag...
Thursday, January 23, 2025

NYT's cigarettes and cocaine reporting on the LA fires

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Here's how we defined a cigarettes and cocaine argument back in 2020: The basic form goes something like this:     Our household spendin...
Wednesday, January 22, 2025

Birthright citizenship

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This is Joseph There was a recent executive order seeking to limit some classes of birthright citizenship going forward. It seems likely th...
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Tuesday, January 21, 2025

Tinder Bundles

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From a commemoritve booklet produced for the community’s 125th birthday, Nov. 3, 2012. Altadena is an unincorporated community of Los Angel...
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Monday, January 20, 2025

We're just going to have to ride this one out.

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At this point we have to accept that we are in for a rough stretch. This doesn't mean we should give up, quite the opposite. This is the...
Friday, January 17, 2025

Fire and Ice

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Things remain extremely dry here in Southern California with no snow or rain in the forecast for the rest of the month. Hopefully, we'll...
Thursday, January 16, 2025

At least they didn't say it was more important than 9/11 or the Civil Rights Movement

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I talked yesterday about how most of LA was getting back to normal but how the demographics of the fires (or more accurately, of one of the...
Wednesday, January 15, 2025

Mundane Monday

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I had lunch outside on Monday. Airnow.gov said that the air quality was good so I took the opportunity to enjoy the sunshine and walk down t...
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Tuesday, January 14, 2025

AT&T Archives - The Viewtron System and Sceptre Videotex Terminal (1983)

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Seriously, though, "when there's a real demand for specific functionality, it will express itself as soon as (and sometimes even be...
Monday, January 13, 2025

You'll see a lot of finger pointing in the coverage of the fires but almost no real coverage of the mistakes that got us here.

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I apologize for the all the reposts, but this has gotten very relevant. Monday, December 28, 2020 The handling o...