170. I'd drive 100 miles out of my way to see that house.

Has it remained consistently occupied since then?

But I don't really consider that area to be part of the south. That's FL/AL/MS/LA...plus maybe sections of a few other states.
#144 | Posted by GracieAmazed

Panhandle represents.

Which circles back to the topic thread.

AI prompt: How much of the US landmass has access to public transportation?

Public transportation is highly concentrated in localized urbanized areas. While no single percentage perfectly captures the entire US landmass, studies indicate that highly walkable, transit-rich urbanized zones account for approximately 1.2% of the nation's total landmass among the top 35 metropolitan areas.

For a more detailed breakdown of how transit access, geography, and demographics interact across the United States:

Landmass Coverage: Walkable urban spaces equipped with mass transit represent only 1.2% of the land supply in the top 35 metropolitan areas.

Population vs. Geography: While the landmass footprint is small, about 55% of the US population has access to public transportation, while an estimated 45% of Americans have no practical access at all.

Urbanized Areas: Around 452 urbanized areas across the US, which house roughly 65% of the total US population, have populations over 50,000 and are the primary hubs for public transit networks.

Rural and Intercity Transit: For rural Americans, intercity transportation access is different; about 85% of rural residents live within 25 to 75 miles of an intercity bus, rail, or commercial airport.

There is no public transportation where you live?

#163 | Posted by madbomber at

How much of the US landmass do you think has access to public transportation?

Sometimes you're interesting.

I went to college in Charlotte, so I've been to both. But I don't really consider that area to be part of the south. That's FL/AL/MS/LA...plus maybe sections of a few other states.
#144 | Posted by madbomber

Where are you now, Germany?

"I don't really consider that area to be part of the south." Well, then you're just an idiot. Plenty of southerners from those areas would be happy to kick your dumb ass just for fun. You don't consider Charlotte (home of NASCAR) or Richmond (capital of the Confederacy) or Atlanta (GWIW) the South? Or Nashville? GFY.

Your only idea of the South is swamps. Sucks for you. Again, like Speaks, what happened to you in the South?

"Damn, Kansas was bad for a few years of my life. Everything between North Dakota and North Texas out to Colorado is a shithole."

I don't think that, but you may as well.

Everything I know about Kansas I've learned from In Cold Blood and a friend who was at Fort Hays for decades and, well, Eberly. I don't dump on Kansas, because I don't know enough about it. It's completely neutral to me. I imagine it's still as Capote had it, run mostly by white conservatives who are trying to live normal lives. But maybe I'm just unimaginative.

On 23 March 1980, Archbishop Romero delivered a sermon in which he called on Salvadoran soldiers, as Christians, to obey God's higher order and to stop carrying out the government's repression and violations of basic human rights.

[Evening of 24 March], Romero celebrated Mass at a small chapel at Hospital de la Divina Providencia (Divine Providence Hospital), a church-run hospital specializing in oncology and care for the terminally ill. Romero finished his sermon, stepped away from the lectern, and took a few steps to stand at the center of the altar.

As Romero finished speaking, a red car came to a stop on the street in front of the chapel. A gunman emerged from the vehicle, stepped to the door of the chapel, and fired one, or possibly two, shots. Romero was struck in the heart, and the vehicle sped off. He died at the Chapel of Hospital de la Divina Providencia in San Salvador.

Onward Christian soldiers!

I went inside, shaved and showered, and put on my Oscar Romero T-shirt.

Think of it this way. If you're not for Trump, one of the two people you're talking probably is, even if you think otherwise.

When you're in America, America hurts.

39.

Are you trying to make a point?

Asking for BillJohnson

Thx

Again...I ask...are you willing to bet on Iran?
Are you so sure?

#23 | Posted by BillJohnson

Presumably you are steadfast in your thinking that Trump is a rational actor.

I am sure he is not. The Iranians have a more consistent approach to anything than Trump. That is a very low bar.

What makes you so certain that Trump is a rational international presence?

All the while to the chagrin of both Iran and US Progressives, Trump is hammering away.

#16 | Posted by BillJohnson

With a Soldier of Fortune magazine, a rag, and a bottle of lotion nearby.

That's what Depends are for.

Leakers, lumpers, whatev.

These leaks always come from the top to directed sources.

It's a chickens#!+ way to govern.

I don't have sex with men. I would never ---- a married woman either.

#50 | Posted by Alexandrite

Sounds like a lot of (married) men too.

Ah, family values.

-------- aren't for giving pleasure, they are for detecting infidelity.
Anyone giving a ------- is looking to see if you're a cheater.
#22 | Posted by oneironaut

Sez the obviously noncunning linguist.

Or maybe just taste-testing for other deposits.

-------- aren't for giving pleasure, they are for detecting infidelity.
Anyone giving a blowjob is looking to see if you're a cheater.

#22 | Posted by oneironaut

I have to remember the benefits of logging into this site.

I had only a few times in Boston.

In 1967 my parents had just divorced. My father had spent a semester at BU in the early 50s, so he though it would be fun to put his two young sons and himself during the first Sunday visitation on a shuttle to Boston for the day. Took a plane, walked around, came home.

I was a Boston sports fan as a result until NYC's glory year of 1969/70. Mets, Jets, Knicks. Had a Bruins hockey puck and everything.

Returned a few time on business in my mid 20s. I stayed first at the Boston Park Plaza, a renovated old hotel in which I managed to score a single room that had been converted from two smaller rooms, so I had two full bathrooms, one on either side of the room. Told them to hold the service for awhile.

Legal Seafood was in the lobby, and Samuel Adams had just come out. Good time.

Went back again with my future wife, and we froze our asses off at Fenway in early April.

On the first trip, using my per diem, one night I went into the neighborhood to eat and landed in a gay restaurant, as I figured out after about 10 minutes. Food was good.

Another night, I went to a local place and had shark fin soup. When I returned to the hotel, the clerk asked where I went. When I told him, he said it was good I was in there before the Chinese gangs, who I think indeed had started to arrive when I was finishing.

It's the real deal. No hucksterism involved. Otherworldly.

For some folks, just the drive to Hiltons would do it. Then it's another 80 miles of VA to Cumberland Gap.

Lotsa nothing out there. Mostly federal prisons. Maybe some songwriting going on behind bars.

Boston is a notoriously racist city. Busing and housing threw the place into an uproar in the early 80s. A few years ago I worked on a book about how the Mayor Flynn administration addressed head-on a lot of lingering problems that were only a vague memory to me. I'd vacated the Northeast by then. But for anyone who was aware in the 70s and 80s, "busing" was a very dangerous word.

Early example of democratic socialism at work and working, actually. Didn't last long.

[I'd mention the book but I think my name is in it.]

Staten Island, I have knowledge as a resident. In the mid-70s, some of the toughs from my (private) high school would go to the Clove Lakes Park skating rink with the express purpose of violently harassing random Blacks.

To the extent my own father ever voted, it was probably for George Wallace.

Ah, Staten Island. From Dorothy Day to the Wu Tang Clan.

13. You're right about that as well.

Anyone who thinks the South has a tight grip on racism is nuts.

I've got everything from great-grandparents to a brother buried in that cemetery. Both sides of my family, including my brother a few years ago. It looks like a Jewish cemetery ought to look.

We were driving through the dense growth and broken gravestones on the way to my brother's gravesite, and I asked our son if he'd ever seen so many gravestones -- or anything -- with his first name on it. He was kind of shaken.

Then we arrived at the patriarchal family plot, where he saw his own name ... on my grandfather's tombstone.

You should see some of the monuments the Russians have built there in recent years. Not entirely out of place, but a big change.

---

Staten Island has always been the Mississippi of the Northeast. That's not changed.

Looks nice now for potential Trump retirement property. Easy installation.

Trump's lost his edge. "Lightly respected" might as well be rose blossoms.

Growing up in NYC's forgotten borough, I had no idea of the local Vanderbilt influence until I left. Like Catholicism, it was all over the place but I didn't recognize it. The Vanderbilts' old boneyard was right down the hill.

Ever been to Biltmore House outside Asheville, NC, one of America's most ridiculous former private residences?

First time I went, the whole area reminded me exactly, exactly, of Todt Hill, but without the mob chieftains. And now Russian oligarchs.

Photo is of a coder en route to the big horizontal career move.