Can YIMBYs beat the regressives, both left and right?
Jeffrey Denny
Kudos to California for rejecting the NIMBYism that’s fueled the state’s — and the nation’s — affordable housing crisis that hurts working families, especially people of color, the most.
Golden State legislators have adopted a comprehensive package of housing affordability measures that, among the many bills, would end…
Left or right, no need to admit you’re selfish
Jeffrey Denny
America is struggling with a serious housing crunch, with shocking prices driven largely by an historic supply-demand imbalance.
Housing demand is surging thanks to the generational bow-wave of Millennials and Gen Z, which, combined, rivals the Boomers, and needs adulting places to live not with their parents.
Housing…
A national holiday for outrage addicts
Jeffrey Denny
Many good and decent Americans are indignant that Columbus Day was renamed Indigenous People’s Day.
True patriots are indignant that the PC woke, cancel-culture, critical race theory, elite coastal, anti-free speech, vax-Nazi, Socialist Fascist Antifa libs advanced their communist cultural revolution anti-freedom agenda.
Italian-Americans are indignant their legendary…
Got some things done
Jeffrey Denny
1. Finished my bucket list. Went to Home Depot and bought a milk pail.
2. Practiced the Dutch art of niksen. No, this is not Vermeer-ish portraits of our last president to be impeached just once. Niksen “literally means to do nothing, to be idle or doing something…
Rebranding the Covid vax for stubborn resistors
Jeffrey Denny
Two out of five American adults still haven’t gotten even a single Covid-19 vaccine dose.
Some can’t. Some face information, transportation and historic trust barriers.
But many remain proudly, politically, stubbornly resistant because nobody’s gonna tell them what to do against their God-given and Constitutional liberty rights.
Forget…
The Deplorables have taken the controls. Thoughts and prayers.
Jeffrey Denny
“I’ve got the next big reality show: We put a bunch of people on a plane, fly them over the Atlantic, then Tom Bergeron comes out and reveals … that the pilot is a six-year-old boy. We call it ‘Child Hell Flight.’” …
Be as green as me!
Jeffrey Denny
I love Earth.
It’s my home, and only place I’ve ever lived. Or is it?
Either way, naturally I worry about climate change. Especially when my basement floods and I blame climate change.
I also vote green — not GOP green, for money, but as a Democrat who…
Options for the sacrilegious
Jeffrey Denny
Vaccine-resistant workers are sharing tips online for requesting exemptions to the requirements on religious grounds; others are submitting letters from far-flung religious authorities who have advertised their willingness to help. — The New York Times, Sept. 11, 2021
Looking for a religion to avoid a Covid vaccination without…
Leveraging what a fool believes
Jeffrey Denny
Covid-19 vaccine resisters happily, even haughtily, swallow and spread whack-job conspiracy theories about the mortal dangers of the shots.
Playing whack-a-mole to beat down the vaccine lies as they pop up clearly isn’t working. …
It’s shore ‘nuff messin’ with us
Jeffrey Denny
Since y’all are smart, you probably know the origin of “Don’t Mess with Texas,” right?
It was a state anti-littering campaign slogan that urged Texans to stop throwing beer bottles, Taco Bell wrappers, Marlboro butts and Skoal tins, stained broken-down mattresses, loaded Pampers, mothers-in-law, and other trash out…
