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::  I tossed out a random thought, and Roger took that thought and ran with it!

::  I don’t know what it is, but I am always fascinated by people who try to befriend the wildlife, to disastrous results.

::  One of two articles on NYC Mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani: The attacks on Zohran Mamdani show that we need a new understanding of antisemitism, and Debunking all the BS about Zohran Mamdani. 

::  Buffalo’s One Billion Dollar Cautionary Tale for Baltimore’s Highway to Nowhere. This has been a very frustrating story to watch unfold. Buffalo’s Kensington Expressway, NY33, is a four-lane expressway that connects downtown to the airport, several miles away. But to build it, they pretty much completely destroyed a wide and beautiful parkway that just happened to pass through a predominantly Black neighborhood. The resulting speeding traffic has made the area one of the least healthy sections of the city. Several years ago the NYS DOT came up with a plan: to restore the old wide boulevard not by filling in the expressway and getting rid of it–something done in a number of cities successfully, including Rochester–but by putting a literal roof on the expressway, turning it into a tunnel. The whole thing was absurd.

::  I might have linked this before, but the tab is still open, so here it is: the sad fate of the Ontario Science Centre, a once glorious museum that fell on hard times and then got pretty well screwed by the Ontario government, which from my point of view, sucks.

::  Finally, a depressing read, but a necessary one: The US Constitution has failed. I tend to think along the same lines, though I do question the framing. America’s precarious position is because American citizens, through action or inaction, have largely chosen to put Americans there. The Constitution is not some mechanism that operates independently of the citizenry, and I truly believe things don’t start getting better until Americans realize and recognize their role in the fact that things are as bad as they are.