I love www.californiacoastline.org because I’ve spent so much of my life here, up and down the Southern California coast by foot, bicycle, car, and occasionally by fin (swimming)! Besides I must admit I like the idea of data-gathering with a camera, a powerbook, and a helicopter!
I put a bunch of my favorites on a webpage. Let me know if you find any I should add!
I just hope our company won’t have to resort to this:
(LA Times, 11/6/02)AND FINALLY…
Banking on Sperm to Save Their Factory
Workers at a Romainian car factory have decided to donate sperm to get the debt-ridden plant out of the red.
“Our feasability study shows that if 1,000 workers donate their sperm for several months, we can get enough funds to pay part of the plant’s debts,” said Ion Cotescu, trade union leader at ARO Campulung.
He said the decision was made after media reports said a fertility clinic in the western city of Timisoara offered donors $50 a visit. The plant’s debts are put at $20 million.
Yeah, I voted. So you can’t blame me. Especially because none of the candidates I voted for will win; the propositions I voted against will pass. This is how it usually goes. The money-spending, influence-peddling, swindlers will remain in (or in rarer cases, gain) power; the “voters wishes” will rationalize more and more public debt with little actual benefit to the voters, if any.
Oh, and a bunch of people I’ve never heard of, about whom I really should know something about whatever they’re doing in my local community, that except tax-wise affects me far more than state or federal offices, will continue doing their best, I can only hope. (That was clear, wasn’t it? I swear I’m not toasting the success of Nevada Question 9)
It’s a bit hard to feel positive about some of these issues that either you don’t know enough about (in advance!); or that appear by the media to be predecided. California’s going to vote Democrat – so if you’re a Democrat, you needn’t even bother to vote; if you’re a Republican there’s no point in voting. (If you’re a Libertarian, even you think your candidates are insane, and you’ve long since been written off as irrelevant anyway) (If you’re an Anarchist and you plan to do your duty on Election day – well, let’s not get into that here).