There are city parks in San Francisco with more scenic hikes than anything east of the Mississippi.

BMW 5 Series MLRS in Ukrainian service, sporting three rear mounted 122mm Grad rocket launch tubes.

The San Francisco Chronicle has a whole story dedicated to gaslighting people about the crime situation in union square. “Don’t believe your lying eyes, closed stores or broken car windows: Union Square is safer than 2018.”

Is this why Europe is poor?

Poll for Bay Area followers: Do you think union square is safer than it was pre Covid, like the San Francisco Chronicle says it is?

Your periodic reminder that heating homes in the Midwest and north east does way more climate damage than cooling them in Arizona.

Democrats are the party that benefits from lower voter turnout now.

There are city parks in SF with hikes more spectacular than anything east of the Mississippi.

Dear Substack - please bring back the old text to speech voice. It’s hard to take my newsletters seriously when every sentence sounds like an overwrought public poetry reading. The old robotic woman’s voice was much better.

Glenn Canyon park is apparently a lot more dramatic than I remember.

I’m beginning to think that Jill Stein might carry an entire dive bar in Bushwick.

There’s not some huge mystery here. US politics is largely polarized by educational attainment now and that shift started in 08 and accelerated in 16.

There’s no viewpoint I have less sympathy for than people who live in tourism economies complaining about tourists.

Can I say something without people getting mad?

Violent crime is obviously very bad, but what upsets people on a day-to-day basis is disorder. That’s why “ackthusly the murder rate is low” has been a wildly ineffective retort to complaints about rising shoplifting, fare skipping, drug dealing and other anti-social behavior.

There’s one obvious answer here and it’s not even close.

The city budget is $15b. $30m in that context doesn’t seem crazy.

It’s crazy to think that everyone born before 1977 had fetal alcohol syndrome.