kfed's blog

Traffic in the Bay Area, especially during commute hours on already overcrowded highways, is getting worse with the steady rise in population and decrease in unemployment.

A recent study conducted by the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (I used to intern there!) announced the top ten worst c  Read More »

Pets, particularly dogs, outnumber children in San Francisco by the thousands, even if there are fewer black ones (see "Racism in pet ownership?"). 

This SF Chronicle article explains why (http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/06/17/MNGG0QG5N71.D...), but the gist of the a  Read More »

Browsing the Associated Press, I discovered that the military is hiring more mental health professionals to assist with what is perceived as a growing persistence of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, among other mental ailments.

All I have to say is, duh, and where the hell has this addit  Read More »

I wrote about this earlier, either on Old Lady Syndrome or here, but here's the follow-up: the City of Berkeley has approved Mayor Bates' proposal to raise parking meter rates to pay for additional enforcement of new rules governing public behavior on the streets of Berkeley. 

The new rul  Read More »

Okay, I have set foot in a Wal-Mart once to get french fries, so I confess that my opinion in this matter may be secondhand, elitist, or otherwise prejudiced. 

But no one who pays attention to corporate news (or South Park) can deny that Wal-Mart, for all its cheap goods, convenient hours, and wi  Read More »

Though the debate is still going, researchers found significant evidence that points to coffee as actually being healthy for you!

I am a regular coffee drinker, probably because my mother drank it while pregnant with all three of her children, and I've always kind of considered it my guilty pl  Read More »

Why, oh why, was Paris Hilton's tumultuous return to prison such a BIG DEAL?

I saw it as the leading headline on AP, BBC, CNN, ABC, and the SF Chronicle at some point today; as of this writing it's still in the top 3 headlines.  Read More »

Fact: 52% of the California dead are cremated (National Funeral Directors Association).

Fact: A lot of those ashes are scattered in San Francisco Bay.  Read More »