Earlier this year I began to notice clumps of adults sleeping on the sidewalks of downtown San Diego and that’s when I discovered that sleeping on the city’s sidewalks had recently been decriminalized.
As for the second idea, that plastics are so valuable that we should recycle them, this connection is truly a difficult stretch of intuition. A valuable thing is meant to be kept around for years and eventually sold on eBay to someone who will pay too much in shipping to receive it.
In short, a small group of radio station owners now controls most of the radio stations in the country, and they use computers to send out the playlist to every station in their group. This results in the peculiar scenario that anyone who’s driven across the country has discovered: each city has all the same radio stations as every other city and their playlists are incredibly predictable.
Yesterday, NPR revealed that coyotes have been discovered hiding out in our cities, with one researcher estimating that more than 2,000 coyotes live undiscovered in the city of Chicago in particular. I’ve lived in Chicago myself, and the city looms in memory as a mass of brick, asphalt, and concrete, so it’s nigh unfathomable to consider that coyotes were my neighbors.
Can you imagine the founding fathers writing constitutional amendments to manage the United States budget? That’s the kind of thing that happens in California.
Major League Baseball’s problem with steroids has become a summer tradition as reliable as the sport itself. Every year we’re treated to stories about some big-name figure being outed as a former user of the drug. Lots of hand-wringing, further allegations, and sometimes even congressional hearings follow, but none of this is ever good enough to dispel the specter of steroid-enhanced performance that returns every year to hang over the sport.
