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Thread before the Gardening Thread, December 1 [KT]The Boondoggle Continues Well, a few remaining Republicans in Sacramento managed to get an audit done. The price tag is up to 77 billion dollars. Pushing to break ground on California's high-speed rail project before critical planning for the Central Valley line was in place drove up its cost by $600 million, with that "flawed decision" potentially increasing the price tag by another $1 billion, state Auditor Elaine Howle said Thursday. I seem to have heard this story before. The audit released Thursday was done at the request of the Joint Legislative Audit Committee. Assemblyman Jim Patterson, R-Fresno, a critic of the rail project, said the report shows that high-speed rail is "dead in the water." This "rump railroad" would run near many of the prisons in California. So it could carry a lot of long-distance commuting prison staff and/or people visiting prisons. Subsidized, of course. A bullet train making stops in tiny Corcoran would change the town some. Surprisingly, even Gavin Newsome is not fully on board with Jerry Brown's dream: The auditor's report comes as the project's biggest champion, Gov. Jerry Brown, prepares to leave office in the coming weeks. Gov.-elect Gavin Newsom has been less enthusiastic about high-speed rail than Brown, saying he would focus on completing the portion from the San Joaquin Valley to the Bay Area before deciding whether to make a push to Los Angeles. Better idea: Just leave the impressive support columns already constructed up as a monument to governmental dreams that didn't pan out, and use the money to fix the highways. Maybe do a regular rail line over the Grapevine. Remember that even if they finish this thing, it will no longer be High Speed. FLY California? Nope. Got a government boondoggle in process near you? Incidentally, late ballots sure put a lot of Democrats over the top in California this year. In both national and state races. Feeling contemplative? The Camp Fire in Northern California is out. A lot of harrowing stories came out of that fire. And Gerard Van der Leun has an understated, image-filled Thanksgiving post that you may find memorable. May bring a tear or two. I think some of his other posts about the fire are memorable, too. Neo put up a post on The Great Fires and the forgetting. One of the earliest posts I ever wrote on this blog (in January 2005) was called "The tsunami and the forgetting". It was about the phenomenon of people forgetting--and certainly forgetting the details of--huge and terrible disasters, even recent ones. . . And then I was surprised to read a headline saying that the Camp Fire was the worst since 1918, when the Cloquet Fire in Minnesota caused 453 known deaths (there may have been many more), destroyed 38 communities, and displaced or injured over fifty thousand people. The comment thread is great. 7:50 a.m.: It seems that the more our technology enables us to remember, the less inclined we are to remember. It is an ancient problem. From Plato's Phaedrus. Theuth, inventor of writing is bragging to the Egyptian King Thamus about the benefits of writing and how it will help memory. Thamus counters: Snapchat, anyone? I thought the observation that we remember disasters about which there is a song or movie was interesting. The Left In the Thursday Morning Report, our own J.J. Sefton picked up a summary at Legal Insurrection derived from a piece on activist women who claim that Trump's election destroyed, or is destroying, their marriages. Usually marriages to other lefties. Is there anything Trump can't do? . . . . David Thompson takes a slightly different tack on the same piece, having the audacity to label the women whom the New York Magazine took seriously as "unstable leftist women". Special attention is given to a woman who developed a relationship with, then married, a Republican man for revenge. But according to her, The Orange Man wrecked her marriage. Well, enough of that. Got anything nice planned for the weekend? Hope yours turns out well. | Recent Comments
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