Starts

http://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/article/inside-ark-encounter-the-life-size-noahs-ark-theme-park/ar-BBvdylf?li=BBnbklE#page=1

I found this amusing...not sure if she was trying too hard to be sympathetic, or not enough...

http://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-08-02/san-francisco-progressives-declare-war-on-affordable-housing

I've  been writing a lot about housing, because it is one of the easy things to solve, and, well, people tend to fuck it up....and of course San Francisco deserves all the mockery that can be mustered.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2016/08/04/study_shows_strip_clubs_don_t_bring_down_home_prices_in_seattle.html

This is good to know; of course, I am not sure I would want one in my neighborhood, in all honesty.

Watching Tribe and the Trump campaign slow burn...at least the Tribe can do something about it.  I thought that Clevinger had a quick hook -- not that he was pitching all that well, as the coworkers noted, but you can't expect the relief corps to pitch 6 innings for a week, no matter how much AAA machination you use,  I guess it wasn't the worst thing to try all the stops to win ONE game, but...this won't end well after a while.