The brick-and-mortar bookstore business model is dead. While it's sad to see Cody's go, it was inevitable once web book sellers like Amazon came into the market.

Bookstores like Cody's are simply going to have to figure out a different way to get people into their locations and make money a different way, it's really that simple. Not easy but simple. Places like Cody's apparently couldn't do that but maybe there simply isn't a way to make that model work anymore.

Please don't use Kepler's as a shining example of how to make such a model work. They shut down and blamed a 'bad lease' for their predicament. Uh... hello? You SIGNED that lease, no one made you sign a 'bad lease'. Make book on it (no pun intended): Kepler's will be gone again for good in a year or two at most.

Oh, btw: a lot of people are lamenting the passing of Cody. But they wouldn't be gone if all those same people had simply continued to shop at Cody's. Talk is cheap, people talking with where they actually choose to spend their money says SO much more about how people truly believe.

I'm sorry but for most of them, there is something more than just getting their house repo'd that is making it that hard for themselves. Getting your house repo'd doesn't preclude you from doing what the rest of us do: rent.

I think we need to get away from feeling sorry for people because they were greedy and/or stupid and get into a house they would inevitably be unable to afford.

I feel badly for them that they are homeless, as I do for all homeless people. But to blame their homelessness on having their home repossessed? I just don't buy that.

OK, so who is going to pay for it all? Everyone is in favor of saving this building, but no one wants to pay for it. If I remember correctly, the cost is something like $30 million to clean up the site. Where is that money going to come from?

Right now, it's basically sealed up and no one is allowed into it. Why not just let it stay that way until the Navy and NASA get a plan together that addresses the rest of the base. What is the hurry in addressing just the hanger? There are very big questions about the future use of much of the base as it is. And there are many other areas of the base that are contaminated, too, that need to be addressed.

Interesting. Now, boys, go get a life and stop squatting. It's not 'art', it's just being weird.

That mall's 'security' personnel will have some big questions to answer and probably a bit of explaining to do to their employers. If that is the level of property security at that mall, then you wonder why employ anyone to do that job...

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Do people really need such a gadget? How lame do you really have to be to need a 'tool' to use a hammer and nail?