I can’t speak to any of these other projects, but I can attest that the California so-called High Speed Rail project is a complete and total boondoggle which, I assure you, will eventually be shuttered and scrapped. I’ve written about that project several times right here on Slope.
Having written well in excess of 30,000 posts……….
……..I do a pretty good job not being repetitive. In other words, I tend to remember what I’ve written about over the course of the past two decades. Thus, when I wanted to piss and moan about some of the really dumb security questions out there, I knew I had done so in the past – – first, way back in 2009 (a post so ancient, the graphics don’t even exist anymore) and another in 2017. But I can’t help myself. This just bugs me too much.
(more…)Well here’s a bit of 1970s kitsch I had never heard of in my life: Supertrain.
This was a short-lived flop on NBC back in 1979. From what I can tell, the pitch meeting went something like this:
“So you know what a smash hit Love Boat is, right?? So what we’ll do is the same thing, except we’ll change the method of transportation. We’ll put it on a train!”
And that’s precisely what they did. Here is the introduction. Brace yourself for character actors that are massively overdoing it for the camera. It looks absolutely dreadful.
As you probably know, if for any reason you’re ever interested in destroying large sums of money, just get a government involved. City, state, or federal, it doesn’t matter. The simple fact is that these power-hungry organizations are populated by people who couldn’t hack it in the world of private enterprise, so they have found solace in union-protected, high-paying government jobs where it’s impossible to be fired and there’s zero accountability. Just show up now and then, and the direct deposits will flow.
With that as a basis, I was not the least bit surprised to see this headline in the morning paper:
