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Headline: Naked Woman Tied To Tree In Tacoma Park Not A Problem

Article:

Several police officers responded to a 911 report of a naked woman tied to a tree in Point Defiance Park in Tacoma. Spokesman Mark Fulghum told The News Tribune officers talked with the woman and a man Tuesday in [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

Touchstone – Byzantium Yet Fallen The Critical Lessons for Christians in the Long Shadow of 1453, by Paul J. Cella

Round about five and a half centuries ago, the Roman Empire was at last extinguished. By then the Empire was, of course, Greek, not Roman; Christian, not pagan; and no longer strong, but pitifully weak. [...]

Categories: History

I read this late Thursday night, Twittered about it, then woke Friday to find that RC2 had beaten me to it. And quoted pretty much the exact passage I was going to (but, predictably, I’d planned on quoting a bunch more). Her thoughts on the topic are here.

It’s a lovely essay and I recommend the [...]

Categories: Business & Media

View from the top of Burj Dubai Tower

I get vertigo watching that. That isn’t usually something that happens to me.

Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs

Clive Aslet last week, in the Telegraph:

They may cost £5m, but they’re worth it According to the Halifax, the most expensive address in Britain is Wycombe Square, Kensington. An average home there will set you back £5.4 million. Don’t be surprised if you have not heard of Wycombe [...]

Categories: Art and Literature

That’ll be “Phrases Spoken By My Generation After Hell’s Frozen Over,” Alec. Next category for the Daily Double: “Why do the homeless always have to ruin our cities?”

Bookworm Room – San Francisco as it once was

Union Square is no longer a grass covered and palm treed oasis in the middle of the City. [...]

Categories: History

I enjoyed reading this. Bits of it reminded me of some of Vanderleun’s stories, but of course in a later, less-charmed decade.

But I don’t have time to quote any of that so I’m going to skip to the funny bit.

The Awl – The End of the 00s: The Stupid Kids of 1999, By Will [...]

Categories: Business & Media

First, curtsies to RC2:

New Geography (reprinted from Forbes) – THE GREEN MOVEMENT’S PEOPLE PROBLEM, by Joel Kotkin

The movement needs to break with the deep-seated misanthropy that dominates green politics and has brought it to this woeful state. Its leaders have defined our species as everything from a “cancer” to the “AIDs of the [...]

Categories: Uncategorized

SF Weekly – The Worst-Run Big City in the U.S.<br/> Spend more. Get less. We’re the city that knows how.

Despite its good intentions, San Francisco is not leading the country in gay marriage. Despite its good intentions, it is not stopping wars. Despite its spending more money per capita on homelessness than any comparable [...]

Categories: Politics

This is quite depressing, but as we’ve been on the subject:

The Times – Doncaster was always a poor dreary town — but so much better off than today

But along with these municipal big boys, the product of £1.4 billion of central funding, Doncaster was reaching other highs: most corrupt council, worst child protection [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

I learned two shocking things today!

One! That Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis were born within blocks (in an early 19th century sort of way) of eachother in Kentucky, just one year apart and,

Two! That Steves Jobs and Wozniak gave birth to the first Apple Computer in Steve’s parents’ garage in Los Altos!

You lie, Illinois! You [...]

Categories: History

The Times – Unburied bodies tell the tale of Detroit — a city in despair

Unburied bodies piling up in the city mortuary — it reached 70 earlier this year — is the latest and perhaps most appalling indignity to be heaped on the people of Detroit. The motor city that once boasted the [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

What is it about cab drivers? Some cities, they’ve been everywhere, and some, they act like they’re doing you a favour for telling them where to go.

Anyway, regular programming to resume tomorrow.

Categories: People and Current Events

Telegraph – Olympics ‘biggest security challenge since WW2′

Hey man, the Blitz is still within living memory. Sign me up!

Categories: Sports and Leisure

The Open Road London (1927)<br/>

Final slide:

“And now – our tour is ended. For our final setting we have chosen one that assuredly breathes the romance of London into every corner of the Empire.”

And what do they choose? Parliament building. The times, they have a-changèd.

But then they end on a puppy so that’s alright [...]

Categories: History