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So, is there anything going on in town?
There's the ongoing DaneCom discussion/wrestling match between Kathleen Falk and the Dane County cities and villages and towns, but it is so complicated with so many unknowns that no one can stay awake long enough to understand it. (And my guess is: it's not happening.)
So, back to you, got any questions or junk?
(yeah, besides the school budget angst)
Monday, February 22, 2010
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Are they really going to start Monona Drive next week, or is it "starting" meaning billing us? When they do start, do I understand we drive on the East side this time?
ReplyDeleteFreedom in Monona?
ReplyDeleteAir, Water, Safety, Traffic etc. are all considered public freedoms, those things we need act as human. Health is also a public necessity, needed to offset the constant fear of being unable to work, to play, to choose things wisely, etc.
Yet we treat many of these common or public goods as commodities to be determined by competition in a 'free market place'. No market place is free in any basic sense, of a human need to act humanly. Markets are limited to those who can compete, who can use the power of exchange to barter or buy goods. Many in Monona are limited in their freedom of market activity...I know I am. Why do we think of freedom as a market necessity when it obviously is not in any basic sense.
I believe many in Monona lack this basic freedom, especially in health care and public safety. I am fortutnate to have a state insurance plan for health care, because my wife(may she rest in peace) worked for the state. That is not fair to others in Monona who do not have such good insurance. I have had to use 911 on several occasions for emergency health reasons, paid for by taxes as a public good. I am freer because I have such good access to public services.
During the recent smoking debate the public safety issue was drowned out by those who claimed a 'freedom' to smoke regardless of the public threat to safety which second hand smoke attacks.
Mononans are less free to be protected from a threat to public safety.
I'm sure there are many other offenses to basic human freedoms...I hope to hear what they are.
Why is hampton suite sshowing up as a wireless network all over Monona-are they showering us all with wi fi?
ReplyDelete"Why is hampton suite sshowing up as a wireless network all over Monona-are they showering us all with wi fi?"
ReplyDeleteNot at my house.
It's a conspiracy. Suppress it. Ala Cass Sunstein: http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2010/01/15/sunstein/index.html
"Are they really going to start Monona Drive next week, or is it "starting" meaning billing us? When they do start, do I understand we drive on the East side this time?"
ReplyDeleteYes, the plan is to start the first week of March. And yes, the extra lane that was added last year will be used so we can have three lanes open at all times. Obey the signs.
Does ""starting" meaning billing us?" Winter getting to you too?
Doug,
ReplyDeleteWhat is your favorite Pizza?
HP
"What is your favorite Pizza?"
ReplyDeleteChicken-fried skunk with rattlesnake gravy.
"Chicken-fried skunk with rattlesnake gravy."
ReplyDeleteThanks-I got your point.
Just trying to throw ya a softball once in a while.
HP
Does it taste like chicken?
ReplyDelete"Chicken-fried skunk with rattlesnake gravy."
ReplyDelete"Thanks-I got your point."
Cool. I actually didn't know I had a point; the Alebrt Collins song came to my mind so I paraphrased it.
"Does it taste like chicken?" Don't know, didn't try it. It smelt real crazy.
http://www.metrolyrics.com/dont-go-reaching-across-my-plate-lyrics-albert-collins.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_fried_steak
"Alebrt" Collins? Must have been related to King Alfred or maybe Albert King. I meant Albert Collins.
ReplyDeleteDo we need a new term 'blog-bytes', to indicate short, pithy remarks, too short to requires reasoning or argument and anonymous to indicate disinterest in pursuing the byte further!
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