Fourth, danger: Yes, now we have Amber Alert, and we think there is an epidemic of child abductions, but there isn't. Your child is more likely to play professional basketball than she is to be abducted on the way to or from school.
Jon Carroll at SFGate

The official environmentalists, like the Sierra Club, want the art gone and the dogs on leashes. They want a unified vision. Me, I like the glimpse of chaos and old-fashioned semi-clean fun, available daily at the Albany Bulb.
and again

Learning how to love is harder than learning how to hate.
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