You really think Charles that 25% of Americans object to interracial marriage? Instead of the actual poll of 6%?

You forget that Americans fell in love with Sidney Poitier who pretty much put that issue to rest.

https://youtu.be/d6QiEqWcYrA

The rest of the staff must be relieved when a vehicular incident happens. "Welp, guess we can just hand today's slog off to Charles. My work here is done."

Just wondering how deep his anti-car sentiments are. Like, has he amended his final wishes to include that he not be transported by vehicle to his final resting place? Will he be carried through the streets by foot in a bicycle-shaped casket, all the way to the compost...thing?

I don't know why the Governor of Maryland doesn't simply import a couple cheetahs and set them loose to chase down and kill the zebras. Freaking dumbasses run the world, I tell ya.

@4 Horse drawn caisson.

@8 Shit... shoulda said zebra.

@7 maybe you should go to Green Lake instead....oh wait.

@7, 10, 11:

Gosh, that only leaves about 82 other City parks you could visit. But, I guess in your minds they're all overrun with zombie hordes of homeless heroin addicts flinging human feces at random passersby, so maybe just stay inside instead; you don't sound like the sorts of people who are emotionally equipped to deal with a reality that doesn't conform to your fantasy of a pristine, antiseptic world where everything looks like a David Hockney painting...

Or a nice walk through Pioneer Square and Alaskan Way near the ferry dock.

Really we should just get down to the nitty gritty. The only thing anyone gives a shit about in this country is money. The average cost of a COVID hospitalization is $70,000. Multiply by that by the R0 of the Delta variant of COVID (and round up) and let's go.

Anyone who refuses to get vaccinated can pay $1,00,000 to not get vaccinated. Can't pay it? Oh well, just like everything else in life, the wealthy will be the only ones who will be able to get out of it. They don't do much for themselves, so everyone else will be vaccinated. It would be more effective than anything else. I mean they clearly don't give a shit about life (or rather death), so let's just go for what they love most - cold, hard cash. And let them whine about how elitist and classist it is as they are forced to get the jab because they can't pay up. Welcome to capitalism motherfuckers!!!

@12: "you don't sound like the sorts of people who are emotionally equipped to deal with a reality that doesn't conform to your fantasy of a pristine, antiseptic world where everything looks like a David Hockney painting"

I suppose "being emotionally equipped" means being a snarky, jaded, grievance monster who sees the homeless only as props to bash billionaires.

It is absolutely impossible to take Charles's anti-car climate change ranting even remotely seriously when he's personally causing tremendous amounts of climate change by eating animals & animal products and continuing to champion those practices. I like Charles & his writing very much, but his rank hypocrisy is insulting and insufferable. It's making his work a cringey, transparent, intolerable joke. Insisting people do without cars is the classist, elitist, and clueless cherry on this gross sundae.

@20 I heard "sock puppet" falls into that category as well

@21 svet, you described his writing perfectly. What's the part you like about him?

@21,

So anyone offering criticism of a destructive environmental issue or concern needs to demonstrate full ideological purity in order for their criticisms to be rendered valid then?

Well, that's good to know!

I admire your commitment to walking, Charles, but that photo of Genesee Park is kinda dishonest here in the middle of Goose Shit Season.

No homeless camps in the parks in Bellevue. Why? Because people who camp in parks are arrested.

@21 in addition to meat eating, Charles appears to be carrying a few extra pounds. Anyone that makes a living yammering about climate change shouldn't be packing any extra pounds at all. That extra fat represents consuming extra resources over and above what is needed.

" I heard "sock puppet" falls into that category as well", say the sock puppet.

You "hear" a lot of things on the Internet, like: horse de-wormer cures COVID, Drumph won the election, secret Democratic child sex dungeons exist in the basements of pizza parlors, the Earth is flat, cellphone towers cause cancer, the attempted coup on January 6th was a "false flag" operation staged by Antifa - you know, crazy shit.

So, just because you heard something, doesn't mean it's really true...

"No homeless camps in the parks in Bellevue. Why? Because people who camp in parks are arrested."

And then immediately shipped out of town - to Seattle...

@34:

For all I know the unhoused in Bellevue and other Eastside cities were born and grew up in Seattle; and if WE sweep them up (just like yesterday's trash: such a humanizing metaphor, no?) and drive them to the Eastside, what's to prevent them from driving them back here again? But hey, so long as they remain out of sight, who really cares what happens to them, amiright?

@36 Open-air drug markets are not tolerated in Bellevue. They are tacitly permitted in Seattle. That why all the addicts and wastrels move there.