I’m happy to pay my taxes to support a functional, clean, and pretty place to live, where children are educated and firefighters are well paid to risk their lives and keep us all safe. Trouble is my money seems to be so mismanaged, it hurts to hand it over. If I just felt like they did *some* things right it would be nice, even if it wasn’t the things I felt strongly about. I should probably go looking for the good things, instead of whining.

(A whining example: LJ Blvd, in Bird Rock. I swear that street has been ripped up and under construction for the last 10 years. What could possibly take that long? And I’m rendered speechless by those roundabouts that a city bus can’t go through without taking the curb. Let’s try not to be stupid.)