Good times.
'War Stories'
Natter 62: The 62nd Natter
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Black collar puppy is Full. Of. It.
Or is that purple or blue collar. Hard to tell on my screen.
I wonder what the guy who wrote Dow 35000 is doing right this second....
I wonder what the guy who wrote Dow 35000 is doing right this second....
Erasing a zero?
There was a big mall near where I live that died pretty quickly. Mostly from crime I think, people stopped thinking it was safe to go there and it died very quickly. There was a rather large strip mall and big box stores around it and they all died off a few years latter as well. Not much there now.This happened here, too. although I think it was more a perception of crime, since it was the only one of the local malls that was easy to get to by bus, and there were many more people of color there than the people who lived around the mall were used too. Ah, racism.
I wonder what the guy who wrote Dow 35000 is doing right this second....
There was a big mall near where I live that died pretty quickly.
Bannister Mall? I used to work there. It opened in 1980 and I believe it was the largest indoor mall at that time. I remember hearing the crime stories in the late '80s/early 90's. Much like my high school's reputation, the rumors were much worse than the reality.
The mall was too big to survive on only the local population. When it opened, people from the surrounding suburbs and rural areas would come to the mall on weekends. A combination of fear (sometimes fed by racism), WalMart opening more stores in the suburbs and the growth of suburban shopping centers all worked against the continued viability of the mall. The fear really irritates me.
As of September 2008, Hassett was serving as an economic advisor to John McCain's Presidential campaign.
You can't make up anything better than that.
Gosh, why am I not surprised about the guy being part of the McCain campaign?
I can't get the puppies cam to work, which makes me very sad on a day when I could use a little cheer.