Quick Hits

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/in-heroin-fight-white-house-tries-to-break-down-walls-between-public-health-police/2015/08/16/f63d63c2-4425-11e5-8ab4-c73967a143d3_story.html?wpmm=1&wpisrc=nl_headlines

I go both ways on this; on the one hand, yes, this is good...on the other hand, we all know that in most cases, this won't end well...it is expensive...and, let's face it, if you dumb enough to try heroin, you really deserve whatever happens...call it mean, but...at the end of the day, you have to face facts.

http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-08-18/how-a-ban-on-plastic-bags-can-go-wrong

I remember, in the early days of the OC, some pantry in SF tried this; they spent all this money on reusable bags, and 95% of them just disappeared...we've gotten some at the OC from time to time, and I would say that they seldom come back...sometimes they do, and I am sure some people use them for other things, but...well, we ARE dealing with Hope and Changers, you know.

https://thewpsa.wordpress.com/2015/08/09/the-progressive-ideological-coalition-and-the-crisis-of-housing-affordability-in-san-francisco/

Snicker, snicker, snicker...