Thanks for the Led Zeppelin insert.
Although my favorite is,’I’m only happy when it rains.’

Gas stoves are a health hazard so why not replace it? Makes sense to me. How about high noise volumes at rock concerts? Federal agencies might not yet have looked into it but any doctor will tell you that loud noise volumes are hard on the ear; that why ear plugs are required at noisy worksites. You don't have to stop concerts, just turn down the volume. What was that you said?

People do kill people. True. So let's make it as easy as possible for them to quickly kill as many people as possible.

“How much longer must we pay the price for previous generations of Seattle NIMBYs turning down federal cash for a real subway?”

That offering was in 1970, when Seattle was getting gut-punched by the Boeing Slump. Seattle’s population was in a steep decline, which would continue into the 1980s. (Seattle’s population would not regain to 1960 level until 2000.) Matching funds for empty subway trains wasn’t exactly a civic spending priority back then.

You want a real missed opportunity? Read it and weep:

“By far the most ambitious part of Bogue’s vision was its 90 miles of rail transit, something present in a handful of American cities at a time when streetcars and interurbans ruled city streets. The network spanned from Burien to Lake City and, when overlaid over a modern map of the city, has striking similarities to corridors part of ST3 and visions from modern transit advocates.”

(https://seattletransitblog.com/2017/03/07/bogue-plan/)

"It's easy to down trod a generation that you never had to live through."

Is this a sentence that makes sense to anyone?

@8 you have to be fluent in potato to understand

something to do with
'it skips a Generation'
tho who can truly say

"But
kudos to
your lack of awareness
and you self-centered view
on the world any everyone else."

scooter were you
Home-schooled?
are you still An-
gry over that?

@8: Sure, in a poetical sense. Such prose goes over your head but that's not surprising.

Atmospheric rivers. Thank you, Will, for the clarification. I knew I'd used the wrong term in a previous SLOG comment thread regarding regional flooding. California is not out of the drought woods yet and it's sad about billions of dollars in damage, but the rains are indeed bringing major relief after so long a dry spell. And thanks and kudos, too, for the classic Led Zeppelin tribute!! It's so true---my older brother got me listening to the songs of Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, John Bonham, and John Paul Jones at an early age. :)

@3 pat L: +1 Agreed. Houses of the Holy is a classic Led Zeppelin album. I love sunshine like anyone else, but a good rain sure feels good after a dry spell. :)

@7 Scooter pie: Did you just fall and hit your head on a rock, Mr. Word Salad? Seek medical attention if it starts to hurt.

@8 RogertheShrubber, @9 Brent Gumbo, and @10 kristofarian: Methinks Scooter pie has been "home schooled" on too much junk food and FOX TeeVee. That might explain why his brain has the consistency of a mashed potato.

@11: Poetical? raindrop dear, stop spreading the misinformation manure pile any further.

Fuck you, Exxon-Mobile, for knowing damned well what global damage you were causing. You acknowledged the prediction of climate change from human made fossil fuel overuse. Yet you chose to greedily profit from it.

And while we're at it....

Suck it and choke, Bezos! I hope you, the Orange Turd, Elon Musk, and Mark Zuckerberg lose everything you all so greedily reaped for your own selfish gain.

@12: You're a total bore.

auntie Gee 'boring'?
Clueless you are
dewdrip.

Go have a pickle Kristofart.

@2, @8, @9: Growing up, I knew my next-door neighbor had, once upon a time, hit the beach at Normandy. Beyond that simple statement, he never talked about it. Many years later, after I’d moved far away, I sent him a letter, thanking him for saving the world from fascism. He told my family it was the best thing he’d ever read, how he thought everyone had forgotten.

Americans in the 20th century defeated monarchism, fascism, and communism, leaving liberal democracy as the last system standing. Sounds pretty damned great to me.