I still see it as a novelty record, despite its influence.

Honestly, I’m most struck by how much housing was built in the 30s and 40s, and how it compares to later decades. How can a city build less housing than they did through the Great Depression???

While I personally don’t believe Lucy will keep her promise to not yank the football again this time, I would be thrilled to be wrong.

Making fares free could only be done at the expense of almost everything else he promised, including improving services.

Making fares free would cost about $6 billion, even without improvements. He estimates his tax policies would generate $9 billion - with very optimistic assumptions. He’d have to make that his whole agenda.

Short of profoundly shifts in national politics—unlikely for 3 years—the numbers don’t work.

Because resources are limited.

Who is in this minority?

Can you share some examples?

Well maybe these babies and toddlers need to work harder and they wouldn’t need SNAP.

“I’m not racist, but I am viciously Islamophobic, even though some of my friends are Muslim” is certainly something to announce to the entire world.

Sure em dashes are very useful when applied to insert a clarifying interruption. Using them 3 or 4 times in a paragraph is preposterous. And I say that as someone who was often accused of overusing them.

Yep. Amsterdam started reversing its auto-centric planning when they realized: to expand it, they’d need to tear out the heart of their city.

Especially considering that Canada basically has the same land use patterns we do, yes.

Astoundingly, this is actually *less* preposterous than the argument that salt-of-the-Earth working class people drive to Lower Manhattan, while wealthy elites take transit.

Oh, but it’s not the same thing, I promise you that.