Am I stoned, or has nobody yet started a thread to discuss Mayor Bing's concept? It's not new, of course, the late City Ombudsman Marie Farrell-Donaldson first brought it up during one of Mayor Young's later administrations, if I'm remembering chronology correctly.

I appreciate the idea, I just wish we could be more honest about what we call it when we shrink on purpose. George Carlin [[I'm working with a lot of dead people tonight, I know) nailed this tendency of leadership to sugar-coat things to a ludicrous degree when he talked about the morphing of the military symptom "shell-shock" into "post traumatic stress disorder" and beyond.

The one cautionary tale about saving your city by shrinking it comes to us today from [[yes, the late) Winston Churchill: wars are not won by evacuations.

I'd be curious to see what the thoughtful DYers think about the whole thing.

Prof. Scott