STRONG TOWNS, POWERFUL IDEAS. I recently connected with our local Strong Towns Poway Rancho Bernardo Group at Old Poway Park. Nice to see young people engaging in our local community. I learned a great deal. At first I thought Strong Towns was about more housing development, walkable communities, biking, mixed use development, etc. But I discovered those are secondary objectives. Ultimately Strong Towns wants to organize communities so local infrastructure development and maintenance can be financially sustainable. Greater housing density combined with attracting new residents to more integrated communities help provide a stronger tax base to fund infrastructure. Our local Strong Towns group is interested in starting with small things, such as bike racks at Old Poway Park and advocating for greater bus frequency. Nice to see. They have a strong message to share.
AM I EATING DOG FOOD? As I was unpacking our delivery of #FarmersDog I realized that the packaging was identical to our #HelloFresh deliveries. At first I thought, oh I wonder if these are packaged by the same company. But then I realized that they could be the same food company. We already know Farmers Dog food has chicken, beef, vegetables, etc. But isn’t that what I get in Hello Fresh? Wait a minute…. am I eating dog food? or is my dog eating human food?
HOT BLOODED, CHECK IT AND SEE. Foreigner was one of those bands that I did not fully appreciate back in the late 70s and 80s. Some of their music felt tired and overplayed on the radio. But then I remember really liking singer Lou Gramm’s solo album featuring the song Midnight Blue back in the late 1980s. That’s when I started to think differently about Foreigner. Now I find myself often going into YouTube rabbit holes watching Foreigner both with their old and new lineups. Will I have a personal reconnection with Boston or Foghat in the future?
TREMENDOUS TRITONS. I hope everyone realizes how insane it is that UC San Diego is #35 on KenPom right now. Mindblowing considering UCSD was D3 when I was a student in the 80s. They played tiny religious schools like BIOLA and elite academic institutions like the Claremont Colleges. Back then I was the PA announcer for the team when they played at the UCSD Gym. Good times. Really special what Eric Olen has created there in La Jolla. If they make March Madness in their first year of eligibility, I have to road trip to the game, right?
GOING POSTAL. It’s weird when “progressives” want to hold on to traditions while “conservatives” want major upheavel and progress. Consider the discussion of privatizing the USPS.
MURDER BY NUMBERS 1-2-3. Gotta admit that part of my fascination with sports has to do with numbers. Not just the stats, but the uniform numbers and scores. To this day I refer to “football numbers” as multiples of 7, multiples of 3, and combinations of 7s and 3s. Unusual numbers as football scores bug me. LOL
AOC ASTEROID. AOC said the world would end in 2031 due to climate change. Maybe she already knew about this asteroid that’s possibly going to hit in 2032. “Millennials and Gen Z and all these folks that come after us are looking up, and we’re like, ‘The world is going to end in 12 years if we don’t address climate change, and your biggest issue is how are we gonna pay for it?’ ” she said.
PRICES ARE TOO HIGH BUT WHY? Notice how “necessities” like housing, education and healthcare are all seeing huge increases in prices… and all three, coincidentally, are highly regulated by govt. Meanwhile, in industries with little govt interference prices often go down (computing, clothing)
GOVT LAYOFFS WON’T SOLVE THE PROBLEM, BUT IT HELPS SOME. The primary problem is not the size of the federal government workforce. The problem is the power of government and their associated policies which require so much funding and so many violations of individual liberty.
FEDERAL MATH. You could double taxes on Top 1% and still not solve the deficit problem.