One Last Note
This image from
ESRI provides a good illustration to go with my previous post. It looks like there is a tipping point somewhere concerning city population and propensity to collective insanity. I note this because I actually like medium-sized cities.
It is nice to able to walk somewhere other than nowhere.
Off on a semi-related tangent… I find talk of abolishing the electoral college to be quite
capitalistic, which is odd considering the usual source of such talk. You see, the electoral college provides for
fair and equitable distribution of political capital. The usual suspects have been whining that the electoral college system is “unfair.” I'd like to note that the original purpose of the electoral college was to ensure representation for states with comparatively small populations. It is working exactly as designed in this regard. So, fair and equitable distribution of my money is okay, but fair and equitable distribution of representation among the states is not? This seems like a double standard. There is not that big of a difference between political capital and plain vanilla capital.
Considering Chicago; I wonder how many times my late great-grandfather's name appeared on a Illinois ballot…
