Tuesday, January 02, 2007

Happy New Year

Oakland homicide rate hits 148 for the year—a 57% increase over last year—go team!


This is the front yard of a small church down the street from us, where they put up a cross for every Oakland homicide over the course of the year. It's good to have graphic reminders of death, for visually oriented people, like me.

3 Comments:

Blogger Fred Dodsworth said...

Hey Bart, did you see the photo I took of the same front yard after our last afternoon soiree.

11:54 AM  
Blogger B A R T said...

I did--and the amount of muder victims almost doubled since you took that beautiful photo in October.

12:12 PM  
Blogger emb said...

Dammit! I keep checking in to see how my cousin is doing and I'm bombarded with DEATH! Every time.

Maybe there is something to an old-fashioned phone call...

3:36 PM  

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