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I bet if KJP was writing that article that mistake wouldn't have happened!

Man, really digging the Alternate Reality track. There's a couple bands besides them up in Cleveland doing the retro NWOBHM http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nwobhm (New Wave of British Heavy Metal) sound with its lo-fi production, horses-and-castles lyrics, standard metal song structures and guitar harmonies. What I dig about the video is that everything around them is over the top despite the band's understated look. They'll never get that big with lawyers in the band, though. Too hard for the record companies to screw them over. (cue MTS)

If that map was made in 1981 England would be bright red.

This is why lobbyists make such a nice living. Politicians have been studying this for years, in fact, there are several books written about this dating back to the 19th century. I'm not even touching political theory and how long philosophers have proposed that the educated control the ignorant via more ignorance. I kinda look at it as the educated jocks and Buffys hoodwinking the proles while the really smart people throw their hands up in disbelief.

Man, I just got a TV that takes USB thumb drives and plays .flv Youtube files. I can save all kinds of nutty stuff like '80s Italo Disco videos and old school monster truck races and put 'em on my TV!

I've always loved the idea that somebody would subject themselves to driving all the way from Downtown Cincinnati to Downtown Cleveland without stopping for food, bathroom breaks or to stretch like they were doing the Cannonball Run just to beat the train by 5 mph. And that's assuming that they never hit construction or traffic jams and don't get pulled over by the State Highway Patrol for speeding. Especially with children in the car. "Sorry kid, you just gotta piss your pants. I'm expressing my freedom to outrun a train."

While I certainly agree that, historically, equity market and non-government debt obligations rates of return have outpaced those in the government sector, a flight of SS monies to the private sector would be disastrous for the U.S. government and even the world economy. The value of and demand for government securities would plummet (though the current holders' YTM would indeed go up), crippling the nation's ability to raise capital and obliterating the value of U.S. securities held by foreign governments and individual investors both domestically and abroad. The U.S. government would be severely downgraded by the ratings agencies -- which would lead to all manner of horrors for the Dollar e.g. oil being delineated in Euros instead of Dollars. That's why privatized Social Security will never happen in the form currently discussed.

Columbus annexed it recently.

^ Yep. The worst of both worlds. My first apartment out of high school was like that. It was outside of Lancaster and it turned me off to that arrangement very quickly. I was cut off from everything. The only thing there was to do was screen stuff.

Say what? You have a link to an official document or website to back that up? There is no requirement other than being poor to get public housing or foodstamps. And once you're qualified for the program, the only requirement is that you stay poor. Able bodied, sound mind, no difference I'm talking about cash welfare assistance (General Assistance). I guess you haven't heard the radio and TV PSAs about it or know someone who receives benefits. And it's been like that since 2010. I'm not digging through government websites and long PDFs to illustrate this, but here's a Dispatch article that illustrates penalties states face when not enforcing the 30-hour rule: A worker at a neighboring business to mine nearly quit his job because the owners initially wouldn't sign the paper stating that the worker was fulfilling the requirement because they refused to believe that you had to work to receive welfare. After he was gone a few days applying to fast-food chains that were familiar with the requirements, he was able to prove to them how it worked and they signed it. It was something that they, as employers, needed to know. Food stamp and public housing requirements are different.

Many on the right have no idea that General Assistance welfare for the able-bodied no longer exists. In most (all?) states, you have to work 30 hours a week to receive assistance.

Right about Urkel an Full House MTS, but they still aren't living above a bakery or bank like the urban TV of the '90s and later. They lived in city neighborhoods, but in more residential areas. But, that still meant suburban to a lot of people when they saw it on TV, even if we on this site don't look at it quite the same way. Most scenes still took place in the home rather than on the street. And there was still a fair amount of "suburban" TV in the '90s. We're kinda splitting hairs, MTS. We all know what went on with a renewed interest in cities.

Back when I used to get hungry after drinking (I think it stopped when I grew out of pounding Natty Light from kegs), places like the Waffle House really did hit the spot. We used to hit up the American Restaurant in New Boston for salty, greasy booze-absobring sustenance.

Yes, they're doing it wrong. Pay attention to how "the suburbs as the place to live" are portrayed in TV and movies, especially ones form the '90s and before. They almost always look like Mayberry, Bexley, streetcar suburbs of San Francisco or Chicago (think of "Full House" and Urkel) or some walkable beachfront location. Functional places. Only when it's time to make fun of the suburbs did TV and movies show the kind of post-'60s sprawl development which makes up the majority of suburban/exurban development that exists today. So, for some reason people have associated cul-de-sac hell as equivalent to Hyde Park and Grandview despite their massive differences.

Welcome northsider. A big +1 for your post. A mix of chains and locally owned businesses is fine in my book -- that's what goes on in the big cities. Though TKILTBAG is easy to poke fun at and may not be there in 2027, it's still good news for Downtown. As far as the architecture goes, even if it does look a little cheap, it's not hopeless like the Eastern Bloc towers built here in the '60s or some leaky, poorly vented starchitecture monstrosity. The Banks could have little architectural flourishes and more expensive-looking exterior finishing added later.

Surface rail will probably suffice for Columbus except for the occasional bridge.

One time me an a buddy were riding up a hill in NW D.C. on our BMXs. It was a pretty long one, and I started getting real tired. He was riding behind me and was yelling something about my brake. I'm like, "aggghhh this is just a really tough hill, that's all" even though I could hear a noise. We get to the top of the hill and I am done. Sure enough, my brake pad had spun 90 degrees and was rubbing again the tire badly. We had to dip in to a bar so that I could recover for an hour with a beer.

Jeez David, where excatly did this happen?

I guess the vandals do like Taz, though!

It took me two months to get used to navigating the area.

^Increasing the density is what increased the profit.

"Lush" is old-fashioned English slang for an alcoholic in addition to its regular definition which is appropriate for a cosmetics store. Germans probably don't think of that. Sorta like when English speakers see a Back Factory in Germany and think that it's a chiropractor's office rather than a bakery.

Much of a hedge fund manager's compensation hinges on the return provided. Hedge funds are unregistered and unregulated for the most part, so it's up to the client to do the policing. But that article isn't about hedge funds anyway; the city is proposing firing people who are basically portfolio managers for the city's investments. A hedge fund is a more elaborate investment tool that aims to provide extremely wealthy investors sustained, elevated returns that aren't supposed to fluctuate very much.

Don't go looking for a job in Columbus with a degree from USC is all I can say. kidding...

Is "Lush" a bar?