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Viewing California Politics Through the Lens of a Science-Fiction Movie |
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4:03 pm EST, Nov 13, 2003 |
The pollution is horrendous. The rich have withdrawn into fortress-style towers. The avenues teem with unruly, eccentrically dressed immigrants who speak a rough street language instead of English. References to these scenes show up everywhere, from books about politics to civic-planning documents like "L.A. 2000," a look at the future commissioned by Tom Bradley, when he was mayor of the city in the 1980's. The report warned that the region might deteriorate into a scene from "Blade Runner": a featureless sprawl seething with class and ethnic hostilities. In "A California State of Mind," the public-opinion analyst Mark Baldassare writes that Californians who were asked about the future "presented an image more like a nightmare than a utopia" descriptions that recalled a certain science-fiction movie. Even Raymond Chandler painted an ugly picture of California. Everything moves faster here, technology and politics, qnd also all the problems that threaten to turn the entirety of the Western world into miserable scifi scenario. Yes, we're afraid of the bad bits. who wouldn't be? Viewing California Politics Through the Lens of a Science-Fiction Movie |
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Why Is It So Hard to Get a Cab in San Francisco? |
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3:06 am EDT, Oct 21, 2002 |
"Last year," I told him, "I picked up a woman in labor who had three contractions in 12 minutes in my cab. We made it to the emergency room just in time. Her husband told me they'd been calling for over an hour. You had to wait only 40 minutes." Why Is It So Hard to Get a Cab in San Francisco? |
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playboy.com / magazine / 20Q |
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12:03 am EDT, Jul 30, 2002 |
Playboy September 1993: 20 Questions with Sarah Jesica Parker I wonder if she still wears all cotton underwear? playboy.com / magazine / 20Q |
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1:43 am EDT, Jun 25, 2002 |
"Find a node, and leave a chalk symbol for others to find the node with a minimum of all that tiresome netstumbler business." Let's WARCHALK! |
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11:05 pm EDT, Jun 18, 2002 |
Put the fun back in fundamentalism and the laughter into sectarian slaughter I want a Walther-weilding pope! Too bad their out of Ganesh... Jesus Christ Superstore |
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$20 Bill Commemoration of 9/11 |
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2:06 am EDT, May 21, 2002 |
"The new U.S. $20 dollar bill contains
hidden pictures of
the World Trade Center
and Pentagon attacks! See for yourself..." $20 Bill Commemoration of 9/11 |
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1:58 am EDT, May 21, 2002 |
Ever wondered what happened to The Thin H Line? This is it, Hard changed the name to Sexy Losers. It's hentai comedy. Dead people, blow up dolls, tentacle monsters, incest... good not-so clean fun. Sexy Losers |
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