Word Smatter

He's back at it again. Who? That founding councilman who keeps observing how we've been deceived by city hall. Now that the bureaucrats at city hall are busy crafting a vision statement to their liking, he's pointing out the obvious: they're undermining everything this city was supposed to stand for. 

Now you might defend these bureaucrats by suggesting they're not word-smiths. Maybe. Maybe not. As the founder points out the original vision statements, the ones founded by the promoters of city hood, were proscriptive, somewhat restrictive and easily used to hold city hall accountable. Bureaucrats are having none of that. So they are crafting vision statements that are vague, easily [mis]interpreted to suit their needs, and the needs of the developers and other outsiders they serve. As the founder points out, they are boiling frogs, and it will work, as this mayor and council will dutifully sign off on whatever these bureaucrats shove under their noses. 

You voted for a city and you may have thought it was your city. It isn't. It belongs to unelected bureaucrats  and developers.

Targeting Target

As predicted (by lots of folks) now that Wally Whirled has left town the local Target is suffering the Dunwoody Shrinkage Effect. Seems some budding entrepreneurs tried to walk out with over $2400 in cosmetics. After many lies, including their ages, assumably in an effort to be treated as juvies, the perps copped to the theft. The justification: the perp wanted to start a business but didn't have the "capital" for inventory. Well, one could suppose that fencing stolen goods is indeed a business. Since they seem to be "operating" in Dunwoody, the next question is: are they paying their occupational tax? 

Maybe the Lords and Ladies should be less fervent in their drive to high density and pay a little more attention to driving down crime. 

Let The Show Begin

Tonight's City Hall Goat Rodeo should be more entertaining than most as there will be discussions of needs and greeds as well as where does the money come from? Just under $100K (wanna bet that is a magic number?) for facade lighting at the Beige Palace. Really? And, as one person with a brain who's been around a while has pointed out, this is the kind of happy horseshit that wouldn't be allowed on any building but a government building. That's because our Lords and Ladies of the Order of the Sleepless Nights are not subject to the same laws they gleefully impose on others. Aren't we blessed to be in their presence?

Great Awakening

Those running city hall have been feeling their oats, for quite some time, but are they one toke over the line? They seem to have aroused some sleeping giants. At a recent DHA meeting a mega-apartment complex to be built at the Life South site, and rest assured it will be built, was discussed. There were some heavy hitters in opposition, particularly to this project, but seemingly to whatever the hell is going on at city hall that resulted in a favorable view in the first place. By heavy hitters, we mean one of the two big guys: Dan Weber, who as a state senator pushed the whole "let's have a city" party through the legislature. Is this what seller's remorse looks like? 

The more important question is whether or not the DHA has had a rude awakening. Is it possible that they are spurred to action, that they will re-acquire the moxie to stand up and fight for the community? The mojo they lost when the city referendum passed. Apparently this odious issue has been a wakeup call to a number of founding councilmen and now even one of the two state-level advocates. 

And is it really odious? Absolutely. The initial stench is from the unadulterated bullshit of "55+ community" with one unabashed proponent of the project claiming that because it was said that it would be restricted exclusively to residents 55+, well then that's that. Well, what that really is, is bullshit. Some lip flapping at city hall means nothing in the face of federal law. Even today. And everyone knows it, including the proponents who pivot quickly to an affordable housing rant, with no shame at supporting this with a "end justifies the means" argument. Nothing matters but what they want. 

And as all things social media do, it devolved into ageist and racist rhetoric on the part of the project advocates. Did you know that the folks in Deerfield East are the recipients of generational wealth? Or that Dunwoody is just a bunch of old white people. Oh, and before you ponder that, it was meant as a "bad thing." And if there are folks in Winterhall who think they got where they are in life through hard work, prudence and good choices, well, park your privilege, preferably at the base of one of those Dunwoody Dildoes. 

Let's bottom line it. What Dunwoody needs to do is support creation of high paying jobs so people can afford to live here, instead of driving our community towards Section 8 housing. 

Dropping Like Flies

After a recent $40M judgment against a DeKalb Hotel on allegations of supporting human trafficking (AKA prostitution) another hotel has settled a strikingly similar case to the tune of $6M. Quite a savings. This does call to mind the Dunwoody PD's falsified police reports justified on the basis of protecting local hoteliers whose properties may, or may not, be hotspots for human trafficking. Is this aiding and abetting? Are these kinds of judgments and settlements headed to Dunwoody? Does anyone wonder if a jury might find the city liable should a case present itself? Are any of those wonderers at city hall? Is it at all possible for the police department to ever do the right thing, and do that thing the right way?

No Will?

A certain founding councilman is at it again, this time proclaiming that what is sorely lacking at city hall is the will to act, to re-imagine and re-create Dunwoody as a sustainable center of innovation. As he has been, he is absolutely correct, but there is much more missing at city hall than mere willpower. 

Dunwoody has no vision because they have no visionaries. The founding councilman points out that we do not, we should not, invite outside consultants to create a vision for us. Correct again. But if not these outsiders, then who? None of the unelected bureaucrats have any vision that is not handed to them by these consultants, or by folks waving grant money under their noses, or developers who have them on speed dial. Either way, vision is that of outsiders. The elected cheerleaders are no better as the only vision they have is what the unelected serve up. 

The other thing in desperately short supply at city hall is creativity and original thinking. This has been the case since day one. Whether a motto, logos or an artist's IPR, city hall has been a den of plagiarists and thieves. The irony of the original motto/logo being on a recycle bin should be of no surprise to anyone.

Plano Texas...Meet Walmart.

Without creativity, without originality, without thinking, there will be no innovation, no matter how strong the will. This city is a bunch of children trying to spell "G-O-D" with all the wrong blocks.

What's Wrong With Us?

As in, what's wrong with us, with us being us? There must be something. We hear it all the time. Coming from city hall and all those folks who run this city. The city we voted into existence.

We're a suburban community, a bit upscale but not posh, always have been, always liked it. Still do. This was never a community of "starter homes" and even the smaller houses have always been priced at a premium. And what's wrong with that? EXACTLY what is wrong with that? Is there something wrong with those McMansions being built across from the Fire Station on Roberts? You know, the ones starting at $1.6M. Who's going to buy those? Well, that would be the same kind of folks who bought their Redfield four-four-and-a-door thirty years ago: people buying their step-up home, perhaps their forever home, and very often transplants with a good relo package. Not some mid-20's kid who's just starting out and who, if you follow the science, sports a frontal cortex that is not fully formed. So, in a normal mind, what's wrong with being an upscale community?

We've also never been fans of density. Why? Because density brings crime because density brings people. More and more people. And there is not a peer-reviewed study, even one funded by developers, that shows  that increasing density decreases the per capita rate of crime. Therefore: more people; more crime. This ain't even maths, this is arithmetic. Real. Simple. Arithmetic. So exactly how is it wrong for Dunwoody to not want more crime, to not invite more crime into our community?

Let's talk apartments. Dunwoody has always been against apartments. And by Dunwoody, we mean the community of folks who built this place and who in a moment clouded by enthusiasm, voted this city into existence. They have a very good reason for not liking apartments: schools. Certainly this is DeKalb and touting the school system as a whole is a precarious position to take, but there is no doubt whatsoever that folks pay a premium to get their kids into Vanderlyn, above and beyond the Dunwoody premium. It's a tight community (within a community) and apartments bring (more) overcrowding and transients. Not community stalwarts. Dunwoodians like their schools and they want them to be better, not worse. What's wrong with that?

Our "development" has always been organic, especially around the Village, Orchard Park and Georgetown. Dunwoodians like it like that, in no small part because they don't like things forced upon them. Someone wants to chase their life-long dream of running a restaurant? Fine. If it's any good, if it suits the community then they will do well, even thrive. If not, well...next. Mellow Mushroom has done well for quite some time, as has Village Burger. NFA is winning awards. Vintage has been a few places: Pavillion II; Corner Bar; MudCatz. Steak & Grace is the third steakhouse in that location. You do what you do, you do it well, you respect the community, and you will thrive, and...you're welcome. This is the essence of organic development. Dunwoodians like that. They really, really like when someone from the community, or coming to the community, tries to understand and serve the community, yet somehow that is seen as wrong.

Yeah, we like our streets paved, but more than that we like safe streets, and back in the day we had them. The referendum sales job would give anyone the impression that DeKalb North Precinct officers flocked to Buford Highway, but the fact is, if you reported speeding or other traffic violations in your neighborhood, DeKalb PD would send out a patrol and put a stop to it. We expected more of that and the definition of disappointment is "unmet expectations." We're disappointed. But it is hard to fathom how we're wrong, wrong to want speeders and red-light runners off our streets. 

We were told about "local control," because we really, really don't like outsiders telling us what to do with our lives, with our community. And we really didn't like Decatur telling us what to do or how they, as outsiders, seemed to be ruining our community. So we were told things would certainly be better when our elected officials were nearby neighbors, as certainly they would not screw over another neighbor, someone you might see about town, at church, or shopping. What they didn't tell us was that would be because they really cannot do anything, good or bad, and they neglected to tell us that unelected bureaucrats would be running this place, and they are so far removed from the ballot box that vox populi is on full mute. By action, since the very beginning, we're being told there is no local control, and in fact, we were wrong to want it, and to expect it. 

These bureaucrats have no interest in listening to us or in understanding us. Instead they understand and listen to those who best advance the bureaucrats' interests, and they are more than willing to sell Dunwoody out from under us. That's why we get a unanimous vote in support of a developer's damp dream of making a fortune building hundreds of (unwanted) apartments on Ashford Dunwoody. In further support, they'll tout the "over 55" nature of the development, suggesting no impact on schools, knowing full well this is neither rigorous nor enforced. Not by Dunwoody bureaucrats anyway. They will do their obligatory "soliciting public input" sessions but any public pushback will be ignored and all comments will be cherry picked in support of what they were going to do all along. They don't care what we want or what we like, and they don't even care to find out. They cater to outside interests, be it developers, or grant funders, doing what these entities want regardless of what the community wants or even needs. And they are so profoundly, completely banal. We have a logo that looks like someone spent all of five minutes cruising Google Images and settled on something more commonly associated with places on a river. Not Dunwoody. Some son of a son of a bible salesman sold them on "place making" so they join in the Sign Wars and we end up with Dunwoody Dildoes scattered around the city outskirts. Here's a clue for the mental munchkins at city hall: we ARE a place and we always have been. Then we simply must pave interstate lanes all across our residential areas. Why? Because everyone else is doing it. So the rule in this city is: we cannot be ourselves, we must be like everyone else, because being ourselves, well that's just plain wrong. 

And why is Dunwoody, our Dunwoody, the one of our making, so reviled at city hall? Why do they cater to outsiders rather than us? It is as if they are trying to destroy us, destroy our community. Think of it this way: if they were really trying to destroy Dunwoody, what would they do differently?  And, if you could vote all over again, would you vote differently?

Kudzu. It's The Answer.

Folks have been looking for some good use for kudzu since its invasion in 1876 and no one has come up with anything. Until now. Thanks to the brain trust at Dunwoody City Hall, we now have a wonderful, humanity saving use for kudzu. You see the city installed some of the most gawd-awful, butt-ugly "signs" around the outskirts of town. It's more than an eyesore, it's a challenge. And that challenge has been met. A small group of "resisters" have decided to plant kudzu around these monstrosities and train it to grow up and all over these odious phalli-a kudzu kondom. Some say that English Ivy is more appropriate for Dunwoody, citing its hardiness. The band of merrymakers see this as trying to put lipstick on a pig, and will start with kudzu as it is a southern tradition. And, did you ever think you'd be glad to see kudzu?

The Dunwoody Velodrome

If you spend time walkin' daVille, as some do, you probably noticed the survey crews marking some territory. 

Not Utilities

Hieroglyphs

All Marked Up

Tagged The Trees Too

TOD reached out to the city for comment but they were incommunicado, unlike the Shining PATH Foundation whose spokesperson, Seymore Siemenz, was quite the chatty Kathy. 

TOD: Hi Seymore, first thanks for speaking with us. Do you know what is going on in the Village...the Funwoody part?

Seymore: My pleasure. Yes, we're preparing, with enthusiastic support from the city, to install trails around Funwoody. If you've seen the wonderful trails recently completed at Perimeter Mall, then you know what we're bringing to the village. 

TOD: So, to be clear, this is adding, not taking away, so the current sidewalks will remain?

Seymore: Absolutely right! We're going to have an additional twelve foot trail alongside the existing sidewalks with a bit of grass setting them apart. You're going to love it. 

TOD: I can't tell you how wonderful I think this will be. So the trees...the ones that are tagged...are going?

Seymore: Well, the great thing about trees is that they are inherently a renewable resource, but yes, tree removal is an essential part of the installation. We're confident supporters will be quite pleased with the results. 

TOD: And these supporters, who are they?

Seymore: Some of the most ardent supporters are the bicycle crowd, you know, the Lance-a-lot wannabes, Now, they may not be the largest group, but they currently own the political megaphone down at city hall, so they have been key to the effort. You know, the smallest bird has the loudest chirp. And we're going to give them what they want. When we're done Funwoody is going to be the infield of a velodrome.

TOD: Does that mean "only left turns?"

Seymore: Not at all. We'll have a line down the middle for two-way traffic. In that regard we're politically neutral. 

TOD: Well, Seymore, you've been very helpful. Thanks for all you do.

Seymore: No worries. It's been a pleasure.

So there you have it. Bikewoody is coming to daVille.

What Lost?

A little context...

Looks Right

Just Put It Down

Not Right

Definitely Upside Down

Then we are treated to...

Smart City? NO!

Some have remarked these...whatever they are...are phallic. Others have noted this makes it look like you're entering a business park. They are either new here or simply haven't been paying attention. Dunwoody IS an office park, beholden to developers and businesses and very well isolated from residents and the ballot box. 

Here's something to ponder...

You know that some overpaid folks chose these signs and they were presented with other options. Yet THIS is what won. Don't you wonder what the losers looked like?

Hasty Retreat

Why is it that city bigwigs must run off somewhere (other than here) to talk the big talk and plan the big plans? Is that because there'll not be very many citizens OF Dunwoody there? Of course the big, if not the biggest topic was how they take more of your money. Does greed know any limits?

Apparently not.

Their biggest debate wasn't whether to pilfer your purse or not, but rather how to do it. One proposal was to simply raise the millage rate by removing the current limit by ordinance, IE: without your vote. The other was to create "special" tax district, in an effort to disguise a tax as something else. One is what we're accustomed to, politicians raising taxes, and the other a bit more clever, raising taxes by adding a new mechanism, and allowing the political prevarication of staying under the millage limit. Wait until they disclose this is not either-or and they do both. 

Unlike Atlanta where Dickens has asked for departments to report on the impact of 5%, 7.5% and 10% budget cuts, Dunwoody fixates on higher taxes. Clearly, city staffing, operational costs and mission has expanded without much in the way of  restraint. And why should there be any restrain? Spending OPM is fun, and gives staffers increasingly valuable connections. And we, as voters, have been asleep at the wheel, electing promise-breakers who are addicted to spend-then-tax. Shame on them, but not without shame on us. 

But there are other options, ones this city would consider their kryptonite, but should be up for discussion nonetheless. How about we stop giving enormous tax breaks to developers? After all we're sitting on some of the hottest property in the southeast, and they should be competing for the chance to build here. In fact, they should be paying. It's called "impact fees," and developers should be paying for the costs their, highly profitable, development imposes on existing taxpayers. Have you heard mayor or council suggest anything faintly resembling this? Didn't think so. 

Frogs And Oceans

Incrementalism is an effective tool when the goal is to impose something on "the people" that the people don't really want. It looks a lot like intentionally pushing folks down the proverbial slippery slope, but more subtle. The undesirable changes need to be added much more slowly so as to be as imperceptible as possible, so that in the end no one can figure out how we came to a terrible end. What started out as a warming bath became boiling a frog, a frog that never new it was what's for dinner. 

It turns out you cannot un-boil a frog. Just cannot be done. The only option is to boil the ocean, radical, dramatic change, done with urgency and purpose, the purpose of throwing out that pot of water and the frog it cooked. Now a lot of folks will say "you can't boil the ocean" and these folks would be incrementalists, who'd much rather boil a frog and further insist that no one else should be allowed to do anything else. Then along comes someone who can, and will boil the ocean. 

That's where we are.

While we can only watch what is happening at the national level, at the local level we may, only may, have time. Maybe not, but we have a little time to find out.

There are voices on social media touting expansion of our local administrative state, advocating mission creep, costs and financial consequences be damned. Well, to be clear, there is one outspoken voice harping on "investing in ourselves" without offering any credible notion of ROI. That voice is shrill, delving into insults and ageism, often targeting the very voters who voted FOR the city referendum, without which this voice would be mute. Or at least totally irrelevant.

What's missing is a bit of history, and a decent respect for it. Before there was a City of Dunwoody, there was a marketing effort, a damn good one, to get voters to support the referendum creating the city. The Big Tent of this effort, under which all other issues were discussed was Local Control. The three rings in this big top were: zoning; police; and paving. Notice anything missing? Like parks, and interstate lanes paved in other peoples' front yards paid for with other peoples' money? What the electorate was sold was zoning to slow apartment development, police that wouldn't start every shift driving down to Buford Highway, and fixing our pothole riddled streets, backed up by the CVI study saying this could be done on $18M ($27M in 2025 dollars). That's what 81% of the voters thought they were getting, and that's what they still want. 

Now that is not what they got and what they actually approved was a mini-me of a the federal administrative state which has followed the lead in mission creep and bureaucratic expansion. And the water will slowly, inexorably heat, until we must confront the necessity of boiling our own little ocean of rancid frog stew. 

Unless we do something now.

Urban

Initially it seemed ludicrous when Dunwoody set up a team focused on "urban renewal" both because it relabeled a suburban bettendorf and because we surely had not been urban long enough to "renew" anything. Clearly it was a money-grab going after federal funding.

That said, perhaps that IS the definition of urban: how addicted to federal dollars is the local government?

Andre Dickens, mayor of Atlanta, urban by any definition, fears the federal funding D-T's. He's worried about water infrastructure, saying "because the size of the problem is in the billions, and we can't expect local governments to repair billion-dollar infrastructure on our own financially." He should be worried as this comes across as entitlement. Here in Dunwoody, the city made a commitment to install turf on a school's field, and now is claiming unexpected poverty. The mayor quoted in the blue bag rag says, "The fact that the bond failed, we’re now in a really big period of uncertainty because we don’t have any idea if there will be federal funding for infrastructure." Wow. Grass is infrastructure. Perhaps that is what you have to call it to get your hands on OPM. 

So here's a thought exercise: what would happen if a particular local government, say Dunwoody, were instantly weened from the federal money teat? What "right-sizing" would occur? How? Would entire activities be shuttered? Everyone takes a haircut? The more dramatic the change, the more urban the government. On the upside, perhaps it would remove the outside influence of "free" money, putting an end to the political prostitution we suffer today.

Shame Shame Shame!

Been There For Days

The Two Tales Of A City

Remember High School English class? Of course you do. Particularly Lit classes, where you'd read something that you'd never otherwise have read, and the teacher would want you to interpret the deeper meanings. Correctly. 

Well, we're back in High School, specifically in the cafeteria where there is a cool kids' table and everyone else, only now the "school" is virtual and it is actually a FeceBook group where the cool kids hang out. We'll label this group "D" which will become obvious soon. Now "D" started as an open group, anyone could see, anyone could comment. It is reported that a ghostly canine, residing at the rainbow bridge, actually commented on multiple occasions. Then "D" went private, members only, allegedly in anticipation of the chazerei around the November elections. Then came the flying monkeys led by HearNo, SeeNo, and SpeakNo and any monkey who crossed die Fuhrungsaffen were summarily excommunicated: no hear; no see; no speak. No longer allowed at, or even near, the cool kids' table.

This resulted in the obvious. The excommunicates created their own FeceBook group which we'll label "D-Prime" as it is a derivative of the group "D". Yes, we've jumped from High School Lit to High School Calc, but we will circle back. In "D-Prime" the monkeys are unleashed, saying and doing what they will, with the understanding they may be taken to task, perhaps with limited tact and no decorum. You lay out some bullshit and someone is likely to call bullshit on you. They may pile on, so you should proceed with caution and Nomex is advised, as this is the virtual world version of the playground where you learned social skills. You're gonna get some bumps and bruises, but you stand a chance getting smarter, stronger.

Inevitably "D" found out about "D-Prime" and die Fuhrungsaffen were pissed so they invaded "D-Prime" as "D-Prime" is open to all. You've just got to handle the heat. Turns out, the first interloper withered like a jellyfish on a hot beach because the excommunicates still didn't like the condescending, self-righteousness of the "D" monkeys, so they beat it back to the safety of their cushy, padded echo chamber, regaling die Fuhrungsaffen with the horrors of "D-Prime". Yet "D-Prime" saw an immediate surge in membership. Something was happening. Something the cool monkeys didn't understand. Because they're monkeys.

Let's get Lit. If this were something you had to read in that English class, what would this story really mean? Well, you'd have a poignant commentary on contemporary society and politics. There is one troop of monkeys that holds itself above all others believing they wield power over any and all others, and they freely share that belief. With all these others. They are the superior monkeys, or so they say, so they believe. Until a whole lot of the other monkeys quit believing. Then die Fuhrungsaffen could not deafen, could not blind, could not mute very many monkeys because they had driven them away. 

Today we call die Fuhrungsaffen Democrats.

In The Crosshairs

The "Police Blotter" is one of the best features of the Blue Bag Rag, but it could do with a layout change. Since the Wally Whirled Freak Show folded tent and left town, Shoplift Nation has targeted, well, Target. And they're hitting them up multiple times a week. Just recently they got hit on December 19, December 21 and December 26 (Happy Boxing Day). Maybe there should be a section in the Police Blotter dedicated to "shrinkage" at Target. This need not be permanent as Target is likely to follow the trail blazed by Wally despite having superior Loss Prevention personnel and procedures. 

And these perps do bring entertainment to the community. First, they ain't from around here. Not sure if that is a comfort (your neighbors aren't thieves) or a concern (we're being attacked from without). We're talking Marietta, Clarkston, Lawrenceville and Duluth. What, do these places have no Target? And before you get all "It's MARTA" about it, in at least one of the cases the perps drove cars, a Genesis G70. How may Targets did they drive past to get here? Or, did they stop at every one?

Then, it is somewhat interesting that, at least in these three cases, all the perps are women. In a couple of cases they didn't act alone. One woman brought her kid, a four year old boy. Never too young to learn. The perp was hauled off to jail but not before granny came for the kid and the perp's personal effects. 

Lady Genesis had a crew of three (all women) of which two were arrested. This crew was particularly interesting in that the car was searched, drugs were found as were checkbooks, credit cards and IDs belonging to someone other than these three ladies. Oh, and a handgun on the front seat. Here's the kicker: the driver claimed complete ignorance of the contraband saying it wasn't even her car. You gotta wonder if the car was stolen, and if so, why the Flock didn't descend upon it. With all this, only two of the three were arrested because the third woman wasn't on the Target security footage, but she probably had to Uber home because the car was impounded as the driver had no license. 

Stepping back a bit, you really have to wonder what it is about Dunwoody that attracts thieves. They ARE making quite the trip to get to a Dunwoody Wally Whirled or Target. Do they know something we don't? Maybe Loss Prevention should be a bit more introspective. 

Slap Happy New Year

The year end edition of the Blue Bag Rag included self-congratulatory back slapping by the mayor and some New Year's resolution from Top Cop 2.0. Only a politician can tout spending money as an "accomplishment" when most of us have tightened our belts and success, for us, looks like fiscal prudence. But hey, this is government. 

One "accomplishment" the mayor and TC2 both spoke to was the "Real-Time Crime Center" serving as a "sports bar" where cops get to watch crime as it is happening. Wonder if they get popcorn. The mayor declared this a "game changer" without any reference to exactly what that game might be, who keeps score and who is the ref. Yet the claim is this expenditure "improves emergency response and aids in crime prevention and investigation." Wow. "Improves" in no way suggests a metric for emergency response consequently providing no assurance that this "improvement" is adequate. Relativism is the tool of political obfuscation. "Aids in crime prevention?" How so? We'll never know. Investigation? Sure, video evidence is admissible. 

TC2 chimes in with commitments to further integrate RTCC with "community safety programs" (we'll ignore the "regional partners" we're subsidizing with this effort). To what community safety does he refer? Certainly not community patrolling for enforcement of traffic laws. But maybe they'll get a kick out of watching red light runners on the big screen. TC2 hopes to ensure this system's "benefits" extend across all neighborhoods and businesses. The "benefit" seems to be "surveillance" so we, the taxpayers, should expect a bill for more cameras. Coming to a street corner near you. 

Maybe if they spent less money and time with their high tech (and soon to be outdated) toys and more on time-tested conventional police work, where community engagement means police patrolling our streets to keep us, and our children, safe, we might be better off. We will probably never know because it will probably never happen.

Student Driver? Driving Students?

Why do they do this? It isn't as if they free up an entire lane by blocking the bicycle lane. 

Do The Bicycle Fascists Know This?

Does make you wonder sometimes, doesn't it? What exactly would have to happen to actually get police patrols in our residential areas? 

Have We Gotten This Petty?

That appears to be the case. 

Torn Apart Over Trump

The sad thing is that it is likely the person who did this is old enough to vote but clearly not mature enough to make a reasonable choice. Of course that doesn't matter because we're not being offered a reasonable choice by either of the two major parties. Yes, yes, that statement will piss off the partisans, both red and blue, but about a third of voters don't drink either KoolAid and they're kinda pissed at the crap candidates curated by these parties. Vandals and vandalized, it doesn't matter. They both suck. 

What Are They Fighting About?

Spend, SPEND!                RESTRAINT!

Tax, TAX, More Taxes!          Just Stop It!

Pave It All!                   Save Paradise!

Give It To Developers!        No, It's OUR City!