Comments on: Inconvenient Moving, Prescient Postage http://todbrilliant.com/inconvenient-moving-prescient-postage/ Tue, 02 Dec 2008 12:43:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: todb http://todbrilliant.com/inconvenient-moving-prescient-postage/#comment-2135 todb Mon, 28 May 2007 19:28:24 +0000 http://todbrilliant.com/inconvenient-moving-prescient-postage/#comment-2135 <p>Chris, agreed 100%. Two point to address your concern:</p> <ol> <li><p>At times, I wish this was a political blog, instead of an eco-light blog as it would allow me to voice my real concerns and arguments in a more nuanced way. Alas, these discussions occur in my real life and not here for the most part.</p></li> <li><p>By "inept" I'm implying an ineptitude at fixing what ails. Whether that ineptitude is deliberate or not doesn't really change the fact that the U.S. suffers from terribly designed communities, coast to coast. Many elected officials are aware of this, while others view suburbs and the National Defense Highway System (our highways, modeled after the autobahn) as the Great Work that rescued the economy post-World War Two and therefore cannot envision the restructuring of this great public work. </p></li> </ol> <p>Thanks for chiming in. Convincing the masses isn't rocket science. It's really by the book and there are plenty of books.</p> Chris, agreed 100%. Two point to address your concern:

  1. At times, I wish this was a political blog, instead of an eco-light blog as it would allow me to voice my real concerns and arguments in a more nuanced way. Alas, these discussions occur in my real life and not here for the most part.

  2. By “inept” I’m implying an ineptitude at fixing what ails. Whether that ineptitude is deliberate or not doesn’t really change the fact that the U.S. suffers from terribly designed communities, coast to coast. Many elected officials are aware of this, while others view suburbs and the National Defense Highway System (our highways, modeled after the autobahn) as the Great Work that rescued the economy post-World War Two and therefore cannot envision the restructuring of this great public work.

Thanks for chiming in. Convincing the masses isn’t rocket science. It’s really by the book and there are plenty of books.

]]> By: Chris http://todbrilliant.com/inconvenient-moving-prescient-postage/#comment-2131 Chris Mon, 28 May 2007 14:03:07 +0000 http://todbrilliant.com/inconvenient-moving-prescient-postage/#comment-2131 <p>It's not that the two parties are incompetent... they are in fact very good at what they do. They convince people to vote against their best inerests in order to create opportunity for their corporate sponsors. It seems dangerous to downplay their carpet-bagging talents.</p> It’s not that the two parties are incompetent… they are in fact very good at what they do. They convince people to vote against their best inerests in order to create opportunity for their corporate sponsors. It seems dangerous to downplay their carpet-bagging talents.

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