Comments by GregMohr
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Posted on March 28 at 4:51 a.m.
I certainly can't fault Chad's expressed motives, and wish him and his family all the best. As we both know, life too often is way too short. I only hope that the place remains a restaurant or some other public-serving Victorian venue, and doesn't become just another miserable 60(±)-footer with a memorial plaque out front.
Posted on February 22 at 1:26 p.m.
Actually, we're transitional, at least as far as marine environments go: north of Pt.s Arguello-Conception is what one might call "central CA," while the coast to the east more fits as southern CA, definitely part of the Southern CA Bight. I need to dig out my old "Geography of California" text to see what it might say. In any case, I'd prefer that the LA Times just ignore us; too many LA etc. types here already, both intermittently and permanently.
Posted on January 28 at 3:34 a.m.
Jeez, eucs dropped like flies during my freshman year in '72-3. This is news?
Posted on January 21 at 9:07 a.m.
"Rainy day fund"? It's called having a "reserve," cumulatively socking away a little more income than expenses, and hardly is a novel concept. Please recall that the state had a hefty surplus in the early 21st century, even after the dot-com bust, and that pile o' dough became a fat, easy target for Enron et al. during the electric "emergencies" wherein Gov. Davis shovelled the surplus like crazy to buy juice at criminally-inflated prices, rather than confronting the bastards head-on and stopping the fiasco, while Bush Inc. stood by and gloated. Davis lacked the guts to do what was right, but the real crooks are still lurking, waiting for another chance to loot us. The solution is simple: increase income; Die Schwartz's categorical refusal to approve tax and fee increases has doomed us to suffer, at least until he's out of office. Don't forget, he's TWICE vetoed a feasible, fair, fiscally sound, legislatively-approved comprehensive single-payer health insurance plan (Zelda, keep at it; the third time's the charm). Where is a righteous recall movement when really needed?
Posted on January 14 at 12:26 p.m.
This clown should run dead last, if for no other reason than he's flipped back and forth several times about running or not running. However, I don't think he'd be a Firestone clone; I think he'd actually be worse, as hard to believe as that may be.
Posted on January 10 at 6:43 p.m.
Thanks for the memories of Frank's Rice Bowl, which predate mine. I was introduced to the joint by an old-time local geologist named Dave Doerner when we worked together at the County Dept. of Environmental Resources in the very early '80s. Now and then we'd truck on down there for lunch, often with another colleague, Larry Jones, and then huff-n-puff on back to the County Admin. Bldg. at Anacapa & Anapamu, working off the MSG along the way. I recall that it was incredibly inexpensive, like, a buck seventy-five, and we never got sick, although the visible sanitation was pretty questionable. I have a picture of a painting by Patricia Childlaw, from the inside looking out, that was reproduced in a UCSB Extension catalog some years ago, and have scanned it as a .jpg and would be happy to share it with the Indy, assuming that no copyright laws would be violated.
Posted on January 7 at 4:31 a.m.
Yeah, when I saw the picture of all the Greka employees at Pedro's public spanking, I wondered, "Who's minding the sites?" Now we know--nobody.
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Posted on March 28 at 4:55 a.m.
Lee's not his actual given name. The rule (and the Wayne corollary) hold fast.
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