in my mind and in my car
[insert yesterday's weather report here]
plus a chance of showers. and make that another altercation-free ride in, along with last night's ride home. whoopee!
at some point i am going to have to take a look at the construction site for our fair city's new high school, which is very close to our home. in our family we are bullish on the subject, generally; the elder son will not attend it, but our younger will most certainly. yesterday, however, i looked at a web site dedicated to negative comments about it, some of which were certainly justified, because it would be impossible to site a modern high school without some compromises. the web site had a paucity of constructive commentary. i took to heart the observation that the site is in the midst of the lowest density of economically disadvantaged students; it was argued that a southeasatern site would better serve these students, which is true, and that these were the students who really deserved the new school, which is not so much true as it is a way of assuaging white liberal guilt. i think it would have been great, but where is the site? the web page did not offer anything, and i can't think of anywhere besides, say platt and ellsworth. would building a new high school for the poorest kids right next to the city landfill be considered environmental racism? you have to believe some folks would have a problem with that.
it also seemed mildy pathetic that the site had dozens of pictures of mud and debris and piles of woodchips and so on, from the construction site. is it possible to build anything without clearing the site first? i understand that the maple road site had quite a bit of "natural" beauty, in part because it had been left alone for a long time. but there is no wilderness here; it has all been cut over, and plowed under, and cut over again. i'm sorry about the salamanders.
the traffic at m-14 and maple is going to suck, that's for true. i hope there are plans for a pedestrian overpass, for example adjacent to newport road, or perhaps along the western edge of the sludge lagoon (it's water treatment sludge, people, just calcium carbonate, nothing to worry about).
song of the day: ravel's bolero, can you dig it, playing on the canadian public radio station to which my alarm clock is tuned. an intersting way to wake up, today.
plus a chance of showers. and make that another altercation-free ride in, along with last night's ride home. whoopee!
at some point i am going to have to take a look at the construction site for our fair city's new high school, which is very close to our home. in our family we are bullish on the subject, generally; the elder son will not attend it, but our younger will most certainly. yesterday, however, i looked at a web site dedicated to negative comments about it, some of which were certainly justified, because it would be impossible to site a modern high school without some compromises. the web site had a paucity of constructive commentary. i took to heart the observation that the site is in the midst of the lowest density of economically disadvantaged students; it was argued that a southeasatern site would better serve these students, which is true, and that these were the students who really deserved the new school, which is not so much true as it is a way of assuaging white liberal guilt. i think it would have been great, but where is the site? the web page did not offer anything, and i can't think of anywhere besides, say platt and ellsworth. would building a new high school for the poorest kids right next to the city landfill be considered environmental racism? you have to believe some folks would have a problem with that.
it also seemed mildy pathetic that the site had dozens of pictures of mud and debris and piles of woodchips and so on, from the construction site. is it possible to build anything without clearing the site first? i understand that the maple road site had quite a bit of "natural" beauty, in part because it had been left alone for a long time. but there is no wilderness here; it has all been cut over, and plowed under, and cut over again. i'm sorry about the salamanders.
the traffic at m-14 and maple is going to suck, that's for true. i hope there are plans for a pedestrian overpass, for example adjacent to newport road, or perhaps along the western edge of the sludge lagoon (it's water treatment sludge, people, just calcium carbonate, nothing to worry about).
song of the day: ravel's bolero, can you dig it, playing on the canadian public radio station to which my alarm clock is tuned. an intersting way to wake up, today.
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