Ever wonder if you are allowed to take photos of something? Wonder no more. Andrew Kantor has a guide up on his website, and a new article at USAToday. Good info, I recommend everyone take a look. Let’s get the easy stuff out of the way. Aside from sensitive government buildings (e.g., military bases), if …
Yearly Archives: 2005
I’m a leftist puritan grinch or, buy your way to a merry Christmas
Tom is on a roll; another interesting These Days on KPBS. The topic for this segment is consumerism and the holidays. His guests were Kalle Lasn of Adbusters, the always entertaining Rev Billy Talen of the Church of Stop Shopping, and Philip Gay, professor and chairman of the sociology department at San Diego State University. …
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Big surf
Anna and I drove from La Jolla to Mission Beach yesterday to run some errands. A lot of people, but the sights were pretty impressive. The waves were breaking far off the coast, and were huge. Even though they broke, they still had enough energy to maintain a lot of power, all the way to …
Calgary sprawl
(This is an older post that I never got around to publishing) I certainly can’t fault Jim Kunstler’s view of recent development in Calgary – “..archetypal city of immense glass boxes in a sterilized center surrounded by an asteroid belt of beige residential subdivisions.” It is sadly, very true. The last 15 years of Calgary …
NewTithing
On These Days this morning they hosted someone from the NewTithing Group to talk about a new study. The group has just completed a study on quarter of a million individual tax returns. They looked at the charitable donations compared to a percentage of their assets, and the way that broke down into different age …