It’s 6:38 a.m., 51° and going to 56°. That’s right. Summer isn’t here yet. Or summer left already. This uncertainty is just part of the price we pay for gorgeous weather in January. The 10-day forecast is here, but also I can tell you that once Sunday rolls around, the weather is supposed to get much sunnier.
Scaffolding and crushed cars at the San Ysidro border crossing between San Diego and Tijuana. The 30-year-old border crossing facility is undergoing a $577 million overhaul by Hensel Phelps Construction Co., based in Greeley, Colo.
Did you notice that New York is getting a bike share program! Because New York gets everything before us. It’s not fair. First gay marriage and now community bikes.
(It should be noted that they had to go to Portland to get a firm to manage their bike-sharing program. Which is a little mysterious, because, Portland doesn’t have a bike-sharing program either. Perhaps because every person in Portland already has four bikes.)
The Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues just released a report saying that the U.S. Public Health Service (PHS) did wrong in deliberately infecting Guatemalans with venereal diseases in the 1940’s in order to study those diseases over time. I know: it doesn’t seem like you would need a commission to tell you that infecting other people with VD is wrong. The paper was intended to prove that this was wrong even according to American standards at the time. .
President Obama went ahead already and apologized to Guatemala on behalf of the United States earlier this year. Interested in the Commission’s 200+ page roundup on just how wrong it was? Check out the PDF...