[Reposting from the end of the day yesterday, because I expect few, if any, people saw it.]Re: The HOA discussion@Everyone – I’m going to go out on a limb and guess that none of you have ever run for, let alone served on, an HOA board.I have. I didn’t like the way my HOA was being run, so I and some like-minded friends ran for the HOA board and were elected. The woman who was president was upset by the number of cars speeding through the neighborhood (we had some moderaly steep slopes and some teenagers and adults liked to see how fast they could go down them), so she worked with the city to get some speed bumps / speed humps installed. Her thanks? Her house was vandalized. We had an older couple come to us complaining that a fence in the neighborhood was “ugly”. We pointed out to them that A) the fence met city code as far as height and setback from the street, B) “ugly” was in the eye of the beholder and not something easily defined, and C) the house in question was outside our HOA. They went away angry that we didn’t do anything. We had a few people complain about how we were running things. We encouraged them to run for the HOA board, and even promised we’d vote for them. Funny thing – they never did. They wanted to complain, and they wanted us to do what they thought was best, but they didn’t want to do the work themselves.Yes, America is a democracy. (More precisely, a democratic republic.) That means if you don’t like how things are being run but don’t vote or take any other action to change things, you lose a lot of your moral authority to complain. As a friend of mine says, “democracy means having to live with things which really piss you off.”Incidentally, when I served on my HOA board, I had a full-time job and was involved in several other activities, so don’t bother telling me that you’re too busy to serve or that only retired people have the time. (Nobody the HOA board I served on was retired.)
CoBass over 12 years ago
[Reposting from the end of the day yesterday, because I expect few, if any, people saw it.]Re: The HOA discussion@Everyone – I’m going to go out on a limb and guess that none of you have ever run for, let alone served on, an HOA board.I have. I didn’t like the way my HOA was being run, so I and some like-minded friends ran for the HOA board and were elected. The woman who was president was upset by the number of cars speeding through the neighborhood (we had some moderaly steep slopes and some teenagers and adults liked to see how fast they could go down them), so she worked with the city to get some speed bumps / speed humps installed. Her thanks? Her house was vandalized. We had an older couple come to us complaining that a fence in the neighborhood was “ugly”. We pointed out to them that A) the fence met city code as far as height and setback from the street, B) “ugly” was in the eye of the beholder and not something easily defined, and C) the house in question was outside our HOA. They went away angry that we didn’t do anything. We had a few people complain about how we were running things. We encouraged them to run for the HOA board, and even promised we’d vote for them. Funny thing – they never did. They wanted to complain, and they wanted us to do what they thought was best, but they didn’t want to do the work themselves.Yes, America is a democracy. (More precisely, a democratic republic.) That means if you don’t like how things are being run but don’t vote or take any other action to change things, you lose a lot of your moral authority to complain. As a friend of mine says, “democracy means having to live with things which really piss you off.”Incidentally, when I served on my HOA board, I had a full-time job and was involved in several other activities, so don’t bother telling me that you’re too busy to serve or that only retired people have the time. (Nobody the HOA board I served on was retired.)
Randy B Premium Member over 12 years ago
No, Heart! Don’t give up! Surely there’s something animated and mindless on!
celeconecca over 12 years ago
Obviously Heart hasn’t turned on Nickelodeon in the afternoons.
sjsczurek over 12 years ago
Crime and Punishment: why Raskalnikov did what he did still doesn’t make sense to me. I read his reasoning about it, but it just didn’t add up for me.
sjsczurek over 12 years ago
Thanks, ledzeppelin. Maybe I couldn’t make those connections with the references to Napoleon, etc..
I hope we didn’t spoil the book for everybody else out there!
mik1of3 over 12 years ago
This strip is SO me….and I’m CONSIDERABLY older than Heart!
Decepticomic over 3 years ago
If you start reading, the book industry wins. Play more video games.
benjnavarro28 almost 2 years ago
That’s what we have streaming for