It’s hard for me to cry for someone in this situation.

Tim Trampedach, a 36-year-old business owner who lives in San Francisco, has seen his home’s value soar from $1.2 million to $1.6 million in the past three years. He and his wife want to move into a bigger place, but there are simply no homes within their price range in their Portrero Hill neighborhood.

For $1.6 million in many (very nice) parts of the country, you can buy 7 or 8 really great houses.

Listening to rich people whine about living in an expensive place is not exactly music to my ears. Don’t like the San Francisco prices, move the fuck out of the San Francisco area.

You could live in the same $400,000 house in Portland, and have $1.2 million leftover.

And then shut the hell up because as we’d say where I grew up, your problem ain’t even approachin’ one.

It’s nice to see all of the commencement speakers rejected lately by students. It’s the one area where the students have the tiniest bit of leverage, and good that they are using it.

But it’s got the elites up in arms, and their journalistic bulldogs telling the students what spoiled brats they are and all that. It’s sort of funny to see, since of course the elites still unaccountably and absolutely rule the country and being rejected as a commencement speaker truly does nothing at all to harm the individual or the institutions they are a part of.

They just aren’t used to being rejected, and that’s why it’s become a big deal. Telling someone “no” who has never been told that in his or her life in any real way is seen as a true crime, especially by those in journalism who both fawn over those already in the firmament of our society and who hope to move up to such status.

The offense in other words is being rude to a powerful person – even one who very much deserves it – when it’s not considered out of form to be unpleasant to a waitress at a diner somewhere.

In reality, both are the same.

I just realized I have the same visceral reaction to Dr. Who and Terry Pratchett: DO NOT WANT.

I don’t even really know why. It just is.

It’s something about both of them trying too hard, but that’s all I can really articulate.