Gongol.com Archives: May 2021
May 28, 2021
You don't have to live in an apartment to favor building more multifamily housing
A person's individual preferences may well evolve with time and market conditions. Sometimes apartments and other medium-density options are either uncompetitively priced or in such a shortage as to be unavailable to the potential tenant or buyer. There's nothing wrong with someone recognizing that fact -- even if they're homeowners in a single-family dwelling -- and advocating for more of those options to exist.
When the only seasoning you need is salmonella
It's obvious that some videos -- like one depicting the making of a dish involving frozen macaroni, ground beef, and biscuit dough -- are posted mainly for the shock effect, but at some point, you have to look yourself in the mirror and ask: Are gullible people going to get food poisoning because of my clickbait?
Delay the belay for today, okay?
President Biden visits a climbing center
Man's video-recorded attacks on 2-year-old child merit unforgiving punishment
In principle, the death penalty is too extreme a punishment for any crime. But if a man hangs a child, causing the child to lose consciousness, and records the act on video, it's hard to summon a reason why that perpetrator should be permitted to live.
A power company wants to replace a retired nuclear plant with a solar farm, and many of the neighbors are...stridently against it, apparently.
Member of Congress treats 2nd Amendment as remedy for the 1st
"If a man does not have an ideal and try to live up to it, then he becomes a mean, base, and sordid creature, no matter how successful." - Theodore Roosevelt
