Number of houses has nothing to do with housing prices. Housing is at once a need, an investment, and a commodity. It has never been a simple, direct number of items to number of people ratio. Supply & Demand is Reagan & Greenspan’s simplistic explanation of capitalism, not a real economic model for prices.

According…

This looks like something Calvin & Hobbs would make out of their cardboard box and all the aluminum foil from the kitchen.

“Uber and Lyft accounted for two-thirds of a 62% rise in congestion in San Francisco over six years...(from 2010-2016).”

Democrats should be repeatedly state that the extremes are no abortion versus forced abortion. The middle ground is safe accessible abortion available for those who want one without exception, limitation, or conditions.

Wishing is not the same as doing. People have been asking for safe and timely public transportation ever since transit authorities were invented. It hasn’t happened.

In reality, the poor take transit; the well off take ride shares. This has always been true. The fantasy that people will bike is just that. Few people…

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The very loud San Francisco Bike Coalition, the MTA, and the US Census publishes statistics on bike usage. Less than 3% of San Francisco city residents bicycle at all; of those only 1.2% ever bike part way or all the way to work; the rest bike recreationally, rarely in the city. None do it daily. (Worth noting that…

I went in for an ovarian cyst and came out sterilized. My female OBGYN deferred to the surgeon, who she described as her mentor, when he proceeded to remove my ovaries, uterus, Fallopian tubes, & cervix. “It wasn’t my place to challenge him,” she said after the fact. So be sure when you go in for any se organ surgery…

Messing has been trying for years to produce a biopic about Lucy.

This looks awful. I generally dislike biopics anyway, but this looks particularity rotten. I got to meet Ms. Ball and she radiated strength and acute awareness of everything around her. Kidman is far too slight a personality to carry the gravitas and emotional strength Lucy possessed.

Debra Messing at least looks the…

No, Lucilla Ball was not a “trained clown.” She trained as serious actor along with Bette Davis, but ran out of money and was told she didn’t “look like an actress” by her teachers, so quit. She got work as a model & took acting classes. Her training was from working in tiny theaters with ex-vaudevillians and from…

If you were disappointed in a show not being what you wanted, then you don’t know what a show is. An artist writes and performs a show, paints a painting, writes a story, whatever s/he does. Then, the audience watches, sees, reads, attends to the work.

It’s one thing to not like what’s presented, quite another to judge…

I am really sick of the virtue signalling by tech & finance workers. They came to & wrecked the San Francisco Bay Area to work for industries started and still funded by the Defense Department. These same employees complaining about their companies’ awful moral judgments & politics calculated the price for selling…

I went into surgery for an examination of an ovarian cyst and came out with all my sex organs removed. The surgeon “determined’ that there was danger of cancer, so although he did not wait for a pathology report, and I’ve no family history of the disease, no one in the OR - not even my own female OBGYN - challenged…

So Megan, sex is only for the beautiful and the young? And it’s supposed to be pretty? Love and companionship is for people who you imagine deserve it?

Golly, then everything real is wrong.

From an article & interview in The Cut:
“Everything that has happened to me has been either an accident or just me following my instincts,” says Wiener. “On the other hand, I’m aware that there’s like a certain type of person” — namely white and privileged — “who can get away with that.”

Detroit, Chicago, Kansas City, St. Louis, and New Orleans have all at one time or another been centers of creativity. There’s very little creativity in California; the massive corporate presence is less about innovation and more about uniformity, conformity, and stifling challenges. The fiction that tech began from…

Until the Trump administration gutted its offices, FinCen, the investigative branch of the IRS, was looking into five cities where money laundering was happening on a huge scale: Miami, Houston, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and San Diego.

There’s no magic dirt on the coasts. It’s just that rich people want to live…

Not just LA - all of California is now a money launderer’s dream. Within three blocks of my mother’s house in a once multi-ethnic, working class neighborhood, there are more than 20 houses bought by tech millionaires or their spawn or some LLC.

Gigantic white and black boxes with floor to ceiling windows and a huge…

This is the problem with “the big tent” theory. It means being manipulated by people who just want DNC money so they can get into office. Jones, Manchin, Van Drew, & Golden should never have been given any hearing or money by the DNC. Either you have and stand for certain principles or you don’t. These guys are…