I haven’t really followed conservative Charlottesville weekly The Observer since it changed hands, but things certainly have gotten different when I wasn’t looking. A few weeks ago, they actually had a pro-sodomy-law editorial. For those that don’t know, we have a wicked severe sodomy law in Virginia. 18.2-361, our “Crimes against nature” statute. It reads, …
Category Archives: Charlottesville
Earthquake!
We just had an earthquake here in Charlottesville. I’m guessing a 3.2, based on past quakes that we’ve had here. I guarantee you that the local media is going to deny it — the last couple of times in the last few years, they’ve insisted that it was a sonic boom until it was proven …
Where can I live?
Of the 377 newly built detached homes sold in Charlottesville and Albemarle County in 2002, seven were priced less than $175,000. Of the 111 newly built attached units, only six sold for less than $150,000. (Source: Advocates for a Sustainable Albemarle Population) So, where am I supposed to live?
cvillenews.com
While I’m thinking of it, I should mention how pleased that I am with cvillenews.com recently. Discussion is better than ever. People’s comments are leading to mainstream news stories more often than ever. More and more conservatives and Republicans are discovering the site, which I think is great. Frankly, I think that the weak point …
Planting on the Rivanna
Yesterday, Amber and I spent the day with a few dozen other Charlottesvillians, planting trees on the banks of the Rivanna. The bunch of us planted 2,000 saplings over the course of the day, as a part of the Nature Conservancy’s Global Climate Change Initiative, with the theory that restoring the abandoned farmland at the …
Shop Local
There’s the best ad on p. 35 of this week’s C-Ville Weekly. It’s this full-page deal, taken out by a group calling themselves “Patriotic Americans Who Stand United Against Bush’s Divisive, Ill-conceived, Illegal War on Iraq.” (Or “PAWSUABDIIWI,” which is, by the way, an anagram for “I, subi paw wadi.”) The ad, entitled “Don’t Buy …
College Acceptance Stats
UVa has announced that they received 15,000 applicants this year, and they’ve accepted over 4,000 people. The average person accepted is a female from Virginia. I’m halfway there.
Can’t keep up.
For the past two weeks, it has been warm. Not, like, over 50° warm, but 70° to 80°. It’s obviously spring, and damned near summer. So you’ll understand my shock when I woke up this morning to find a half an inch of snow on the ground.
Went to see Ralph Nader speak. Wow.
Amber, her brother, her father and I all went to see Ralph Nader speak at Cabell Hall at UVa last night. I made my mind up to vote for him a few months ago, but last night certainly cemented things. Amber and her father didn’t expect to vote for him (Cory is too young to …
Value America finally crawled into a hole and died. Thank God.
So, Value America has finally gone under. It’s about damned time. I’ve been a vocal opponent of Value America since shortly after they started, I don’t mind saying. They came into our town waving an “IPO” banner and I watched sucker after sucker line up and empty out their wallets. I had quite a few …
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