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was talking to the other member of this group lately about homicide rates in various american cities. don't remember the exact figures, but here's an...
... How sad... I know the group just started, but someone else please join... lately about homicide ... Okay, what can I do here but shake my head and smirk...
... London; higher than the 430,460 crimes reported in New York in 1993, before Rudolph Giuliani came to power. The present New York figure is 161,956. For the...
Short but excellent article about the state of the art of stand-up comedy... http://www.metrotimes.com/editorial/story.asp?id=4274 (David Cross - for those of...
The MTA is planning not only to raise the subway fare to $2, but is also "considering raising ticket prices on the commuter rails by as much as 20 percent...
Oh, and they're also claiming that due to various discounts introduced recently, the average subway fare is now $1.06!! I suspected this was a load of crap, so...
From http://www.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/africa/11/26/riots.obasanjo/index.html "Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo says the media are responsible for the...
I liked your mathematics. Too bad the local media can't be that precise, breaking it down as you did, to give a factual and accurate picture of how it is...
... considering ... is ... Yup, the 4/5/6 is a joke. So much so that I refuse to take the afternoon uptown "express"--the N/W local being rather faster at ...
As much as people complain about MUNI in SF it's still pretty cheap a dollar for a ride and 2 tranfers or $35 for a monthly pass. I remember when I was in...
... a ... Yeah, a dollar a ride is certainly cheap. That's gotta be the lowest in the country; I remember Rochester charged more than a dollar over ten years...
The no-talent MTV/Coors shill and raging imbecile Andrew W.K. aside, there are actually some recordings I'd like to check out on this ... "...intentionally...
(Pat basically hit on what I was thinking.) Sure, a dollar is a reasonable cost for a MUNI ride. Being familiar with the MUNI system, I can also say it isn't...
I usually like checkin out the onion. Today I was pretty shocked to see a big Miller banner at the top of the page. Ita almost as bad as the Sex Pistols/Bowie...
Apparently I needed to click on this banner in order to "Find a Miller Time Near Me." It wasn't that important. I can only drink Miller (Genuine Draft only)...
It's that mirthful time of the season to start keeping an eye on the Buffalo, NY snowfall amounts: "Steady snow throughout the area into Monday morning left...
http://www.ny1.com/ny/NewsBeats/SubTopic/index.html?topicintid=2&subtopicintid=5&contentintid=26267 Local union leader makes some good points about improving ...
Okay, I just have to rant. What is the deal with NYC radio stations? One of the world's biggest, most diverse cities and we have the most limited, crappy...
A followup to Steve's MUNI posting; this is an editorial from SF Weekly (www.sfweekly.com): "...public transit is inconvenient for most people in the Bay Area,...
... Fascinating story. It's hard to tell which party is more responsible for this disaster. Maybe it's the gullible "alt-fuels-at-any-cost" lefty coalition...
Dead-on article about why leaving the homeless to rot in public is NOT the = compassionate thing to do:
http://www.city-journal.org/html/eon_12_3_02hm.html...
Another moron espousing typically misguided Puritanical rubbish: "A preacher led a group in shredding copies of Harry Potter books on the eve of the release of...
Posting this hilarious papermag movie review on behalf of member sherryjbryan: "Heaven" It's beautiful, it's serious, but instead of going to see this ...
I agree with you. Plain and simple, vagrancy is vagrancy. There are options: shelters, hospitals, etc. However, many of these places require no drigs and no...
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