uh uh, maybe

Dear Reader, you may have wondered to yourself as you read these pages whether I am the sort of person who overanalyzes everything. In answer I can offer only ( my two favorite things about the Dixie Chicks' cover of 'Landslide'. )

for public transit fans

San Jose's mayor is trying to expand the airport without enhancing transit to it. ( Read more... )

dream report

I dreamed that once, in an AOL live chat, I had made Will Ferrell LOL, and that I counted this among the proudest moments of my life.

more statistics

More on wealth distribution statistics: Also in last week's New York Times was an essay by David Brooks about why Americans keep voting for politicians who promise to make the rich richer. Here's the best paragraph:

The most telling polling result from the 2000 election was from a Time magazine survey that asked people if they are in the top 1 percent of earners. Nineteen percent of Americans say they are in the richest 1 percent and a further 20 percent expect to be someday. So right away you have 39 percent of Americans who thought that when Gore savaged a plan that favored the top 1 percent, he was taking a direct shot at them.

The Times has the article online, but by now it's hidden behind a wall of pay, so here are two other copies.

(Update 5/9/2003: One of the other copies has expired.)