This shot was taken on Wednesday, and it looks like this right now. It’s also 90 degrees, so the sensation is like sitting next to a fireplace when the chimney is clogged.

Again, the Shell station at Royal Palm and Arthur Godfrey is setting new standards when it comes to shameless and (probably) illegal price gouging. I wrote about this very station on January 18th when they were charging $3.67. At $4.19 a gallon - I would like to hear from anyone in the USA who knows of a higher price . Notice they had to handwrite the 4’s for the dollar amount !

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
- Declaration Of Independence, 1776

Equal opportunity is a descriptive term for an approach intended to provide a certain social environment in which people are not excluded from the activities of society, such as education, employment, or health care, on the basis of immutable traits.
- Wikipedia

One of the most ignorant things that come up during a debate concerning the pursuit of Happiness is that somehow everyone has a shot at attaining some fraction of what the pursuit of Happiness has to offer. People love to wash themselves of responsibility… it’s the American way… and wash themselves they do.
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Well… here it is… my first Metroblog. I’ve been thinking that maybe for my first post I should keep things simple… kind of a hello / how are you? question and answer process. I know we’re supposed to write a bio but bio’s are so pretentious… I think mine says something like “professional idiot and obnoxious fool”.
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The New Miami continues to rise from yesterday’s forgotten warehouses and flophouses. Biscayne Boulevard’s complete makeover is advancing rapidly.

Critical Miami, a blog I’m a big fan of, has an interesting series of pictures of the architecture in Morningside where many of the houses date back to the 20’s. It’s worth checking out.