Re: A Tale of Two Berkeleys
(in Berkeley)
Dr. Jimmy,
So true. I can remember a few occasions when 18" pipes gushed thousands of gallons of steaming blue-tinted water steaming into Strawberry Creek just east of the Oxford St, and wondering @ 10 years old, "what could possibly make so much...
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discussion post on Wed, August 20, 2008 - 3:11 PM
ROTC at UC
(in Berkeley)
Interesting point about the ROTC program Platy. So many things get funded due to military needs. Our amazing interstate highway system was first announced as the "National Defense Highway System." In 1956 President Eisenhower changed the name to t...
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discussion post on Tue, August 19, 2008 - 2:36 PM
A Tale of Two Berkeleys
(in Berkeley)
I noticed a fair amount of anti-UC sentiment in recent posts, mostly concerning expansion and deforestation. This strikes me as a bid odd.
I have always been a big fan of the rapidly vanishing "other" Berkeley, the hard-nosed Berkeley of Billy...
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discussion post on Mon, August 18, 2008 - 9:28 PM
Re: PRESS
(in Berkeley)
One more time, because you seem too stupid to get it on your own.
I suggested a dignified boycott. That is what was done, because the people who organized the protest are intelligent.
You suggested a messing up, shutting down, mobbing armloa...
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discussion post on Sat, August 2, 2008 - 4:01 PM
how can you be so wrong all the time?
(in Berkeley)
>Your weak ass solution of wriiting a letter to corp office<
I never suggested writing a letter. Ever. That would be the LAST thing I would suggest YOU do.
>that has only minimal control over how a franchise owner operates<
You clearly ha...
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discussion post on Tue, July 29, 2008 - 4:48 PM