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People will tell you Los Angeles is all about the car. That’s partly true, and much of the problem, although they have been trying lately by building new transit lines and bike lanes. But the city-wide no-walking-zone rumours are not true. It turns out that politicians, voters and plenty of volunteers have managed to preserve [...]  The Vancouver Sun has an article in this morning’s paper about (kicking my instep and tugging my forelock in embarrassment)… me. Dang, another one of those thousands-of-years-of-life-about-to-end tales. This one is about the venerable bristlecone pines of high Colorado California. They’ve evolved to withstand almost every harsh condition there is, dating back to before the time of Alexander the Great, but not the kind of crap our own era puts out. It looks like a double [...] Of all the smoke-churning, oil-sloshing, toxin-weaving, carbon-spewing, lie-mongering nations of the world, which one is the most despicable? Read it and weep, Canadians. We’re a menace. |
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