QOTD
"Nationwide, sales of foreclosures and other distressed properties made up about half of the market."
- Yahoo article on crappy housing market, Median home prices fell in US in Q1
I went running Sunday around a little subdivision near The Castle called "Washington Woods." The houses are million dollar homes, and I'll thumbnail the number of properties that are for sale/foreclosed/generally messed up at about 1/3. Scary.

QOTD2
In "Democracy in America," Alexis de Tocqueville anticipated people being governed by "an immense, tutelary power" determined to take "sole charge of assuring their enjoyment and of watching over their fate." It would be a power "absolute, attentive to detail, regular, provident and gentle," aiming for our happiness but wanting "to be the only agent and the sole arbiter of that happiness." It would, Tocqueville said, provide security, anticipate needs, direct industries and divide inheritances. It would envelop society in "a network of petty regulations." But softly: "It does not break wills; it softens them, bends them, and directs them" until people resemble "a herd of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd."
- from a George Will article, source
Dead on: "a network of petty regulations"... "government is the shepherd."

How about this bullshit: www.buckleupillinois.org
That's some nice shepherding... May is "Click it or ticket" month in Illinois, where cops will pull people over for not wearing their seat belt. Sigh.

It's not about the ticket, or the money, or telling you what to do... it's all about saving lives. Cha.
blow me... yow, bill

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