Paleo Retiree writes:
- In praise of 360 degree cameras. I’m tempted to get one myself … but would I use it more than once?
- Traffic circles, yay or nay?
- Dutch doors are awesome.
- Speaking of which, why isn’t more of our architecture charming? Great quote: “Modern architecture has thrown out the tools tradition used for centuries to produce charm.”
- How ambitious top-down urban planning goes wrong.
- What’s the difference between the McCarthy era’s insistence on loyalty oaths and today’s proggy enthusiasm for unconscious-bias training?
- More.
- College adminstrators are even more left than profs are.
- More.
- Left/lib circular firing squad du jour.
- Someone’s not getting with the program.
- Why isn’t the murder of this journalist getting more coverage?
- ”Unwanted mass migration is the issue of our time,” claims Patrick Buchanan, and who can argue with that?
- Headlines I never thought I’d read, an ongoing series.
- “Populism is the last refuge of those who do not want to die”:
Blowhard, Esq.
Callowman
Sherbrooke
Eddie Pensier
Enzo Nakamura
Epaminondas
Fabrizio del Wrongo
Fenster
Brundle Guy
Glynn Marshes
Paleo Retiree
Atypical Neurotic
Question Lady
Sax von Stroheim
Sir Barken Hyena
The Mistaken
I’ve lived for twenty years not far from two traffic circles, both of which I traverse on my way to work, and I can tell you that I never cease to be grateful that they exist, and that I have the privilege of using them every day.
They create a bucolic oasis where there might have been an ugly traffic light. The momentarily befuddle some who’ve never encountered them before, but it doesn’t take long to get the hang of negotiating the layout. About ten years ago, some knucklehead developer got the government to annihilate a third roundabout in our town to accommodate a upscale housing scheme, and the loss — in aesthetics, drivability, and civilized life in that little area — is still keenly felt.
So I say, traffic circles YES.
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