Said by someone who has Maslow's hierarchy of needs inverted.

Even when the shelter is full, which it usually is not, there are plenty of fallbacks in Boulder, including churches and other humanitarian groups. The issue is that neither the shelter nor the fallbacks allow liquor, weapons, or pets. In other words, those who camp are making a choice.

If Occupy wins in court, I'm going to head right up to the Boulder watershed and climb Kiowa. I'll wear a protest sign on my pack to make it legit. Who's in?

Actually it's not a conversation, it's a comment thread on IntenseDebate on a local online newspaper; as such, it is up to the readers to determine what is relevant or valuable, which they have affirmed with respect to my comment (+34) and rejected (-1) with respect to your Comment Police effort.

Further, you are either not a resident of Boulder, or have not been here very long, or do not have any friends in Boulder, if you do not know what "prana" is. But I'll let you look it up on Wikipedia.

Finally, as to "what is nonsense?", I am referring to the City's attempts to implement increasingly complex, inscrutable, unenforceable traffic rules and systems in an attempt to accommodate every constituency, and the populace's corresponding intransigence in simply doing whatever they want regardless of the rules. And my point, since you didn't understand it, is that people should not rely on these rules or on anyone following them; instead, the only path to safety is to *pay attention*.

I used to get riled up about this nonsense, but at some point I just took a deep prana breath, and accepted that driving in Boulder is and will continue to be a chaotic obstacle course, with skateboarders, bicycles, dogs, jaywalkers, deer, scooters, Subarus, drivers on cellphones, drivers eating breakfast, stoned council members driving, unfamiliar-wheeled-devices-that-sort-of-look-like-bicycles, pedestrians texting, undergraduates-unacquainted-with-their-mortality, wind-driven debris, and many other objects moving into, across, over, and along the streets in random directions at random speeds at random times without warning. The only solution for a driver is to pay very close attention and have fast reflexes. Unfortunately, that does not describe most Boulder drivers.

City has limited governmental immunity, so while you can sue them, you have to show a "dangerous condition" (and from the statute, "The mere existence of wind, water, snow, ice, or temperature shall not, by itself, constitute a dangerous condition"), and then if you win anyway, the award is limited.

Facebook, Zynga, Twitter... vast sums of money are being made in social media. Consequently, sociology is actually quite a good major if you already understand other aspects of business. Furthermore, if you are planning to run an actual organization of any size, sociology is probably more important than business administration. Balance sheets and finance are mechanical, leading a team is really hard. I'm assuming that it's a good sociology program, which I don't actually know.

Actually, the real source of sh*t in this case will be the horses. Are there really that many equestrians in this town? And why don't they have to remove their big piles from the trail?

Maybe those teenagers can do the grocery shopping for their families for a few months and see if it's still a "really important issue."

Ferrets running loose in the house? Does anyone else find this surreal?