Why I started this blog.

People blog about a lot of things, whether it is documenting their bike trip through Chernobyl or their pregnancy. Not as many people blog about why their city sucks. But Baltimore is the cesspool of cesspools of cities. Detroit is a close runner up. While crime may be higher in Detroit, I put it second. It does have some redeeming attributes to speak for it such as an automobile industry. Baltimore doesn't have even that. They had to name their football team after a poem about a bird, because this city has nothing else to brag about. The funny part is, that Poe probably would of been a Giants fan. He spent more time in NY than in Baltimore. So the one redeeming attribute is Poe. Every year a visitor would come visit Poe's grave on his birthday. Instead of letting the tradition continue, they put up a video camera to see who it is. The visitor no longer comes. So the one interesting thing that happens in this city, they couldn't leave it alone, and screwed it up. I hate this city, and many around me hate it to. The politics are notoriously corrupt, the crime is high, the city is poor and run down. In the last two years I have worked here, I have had my car broken into four times. I have received parking tickets from the predatory parking maids who have placed tickets on my car with the smashed out window because my parking pass was stolen. The city is on the brink of bankruptcy, but they can't raise taxes because they are legally maxed out. So how can you max out the tax system and remain mind boggingly poor? Hence the predatory ticketing practises. Not that I expect hordes of people to read this blog, but I am using it as a tool to bring to attention the most failed city in America. To document the blight on the face of America. And maybe someone, somewhere, might take notice and actually care. I have considered wrighting this blog for sometime. But a new coworker went out this morning to find his back window smashed out. So I figured this was a good time to start documenting the phenomenon known as Baltimore.