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Wednesday, October 27, 2010
 
Happy Hour Thread

Sorry, was busy. #cocktailweeniessuretastegood #notkeepingitreal

 
Afternoon Thread II


 
Afternoon Thread


 
Lunch Thread

enjoy.

 
Forgotten America

It's weird how we, on one hand, have some abstract nostalgia for small town America, but that we've completely forgotten what it was like. LaHood:
Q. So tell me, what does this concept of "livability" really mean?

A. This is something I've never really talked about, but growing up, I lived on the east side of Peoria. When I was growing up, I could walk to my grade school. We had one car, but we would bike everywhere we went. We could walk to the grocery store. In those days, we had streetcars and buses, which people used to get to downtown Peoria, which was probably five miles from my house. I used to take a bus to my dad's business. I grew up in an era [of] livable neighborhoods and livable communities -- what we're really trying to offer to people around America. When there was no urban sprawl, when you didn't have to have three cars, when there weren't houses with three-car garages, everybody had one car.

 
The Light At The End Of The Tunnel Is Just Around The Corner

Don't worry John, there won't be another Friedman Unit. Lindsey Graham said in December we'll, well, who knows, whatever.

"If, by December, we're not showing some progress, we're in trouble," he said. "And the question is: what is progress? Without some benchmarks and measurements, it's going to be hard to sell to the American people a continued involvement in Afghanistan."

And, yes, I know, come December no one will ask Lindsey about those benchmarks and measurements...

 
GOTV

Big signs popping up around the urban hellhole with pictures of Obama, the 2008 logo/colors, saying "Support Obama. Vote Nov 2nd."

 
Morning

Some days I feel like we're just reliving 1995 over and over again, except with a couple superfun wars.

 
Morning and Stuff

Echidne discusses the Selling of Youth Sexuality. Always worth a visit to her place.


Tuesday, October 26, 2010
 
Late Night Thread


 
Oh Well

As expected, Christie cancels rail tunnel.

Have fun choking on gas fumes in the Lincoln Tunnel drivers.

 
Poor People In Cities Don't Drive

Glad that housing authorities are realizing that there's no need to tack on a $15,000/unit surcharge for affordable housing so that tenants have parking they don't need.

In earlier affordable projects, Dunn said that he hadn’t taken the same zero-parking approach. At the nearby Myrtle Avenue Apartments, for example, zoning required that they build parking for 25 percent of the units, leading to eight spaces. At the price of $25 per month, there have never been more than two spaces rented, said Dunn. The company could have built a bigger playground instead of those empty parking spots. “We’ve felt bad that we built that parking every day since,â€? he said.

 
Good For Rendell

No natural gas tax, no drilling.

 
Afternoon Thread

enjoy

 
There Is A Muslim Problem

What's horrifying is that no one will be horrified by this discourse.


 
Brain Change

Walking around my urban hellhole today I'm reminded of how not owning a car really changes the way you think about the world. Obviously cars are useful things in that they let you basically go "anywhere" at relatively low perceived marginal cost (one problem with the way we pay for cars is that a lot of things which are really marginal costs are perceived as fixed costs by people). I think I've been car free for about 6 years now, and where I can go reasonably is dictated by where I can walk, where there's decent public transportation access, where is accessible by a cab ride I'm willing to pay for, or what's accessible by a carshare car that I'm willing to pay for. While there isn't a perfect mapping, carshare costs make perceived fixed costs (insurance, maintenance, car payments) into marginal costs to some degree. All that makes the accessible world quite a bit smaller. Not saying that's good or bad, just that it is.

 
The Sestak Surge

He basically won his race against Specter in the last 10 days, so no surprise that would be his strategy for the general too.

 
Price To Rent Ratio

I knew we had a massive housing bubble based on my knowledge of the fact that there just weren't that many people in the country who could afford $800K+ homes. But if that wasn't enough evidence, the fact that rents were flat as prices were rising should have been a tip off. And it was to dirty hippies, but not to Very Serious People.






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