Return to the stone age
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What’s frightening is that wasn’t posted in a radical high school newspaper, but the Economist, which was once a respected scientific publication.
3rd price cut
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6 Deer Lane, a spec project of Mark Mariani, was originally priced in April at $8.675 million. Today it dropped, again, and now will entertain offers at $6.295.
The property has an interesting history: the land was placed on the market in March, 2018, priced at $2.595. A bidding war erupted and the winner paid $2.750 for it ten days later. By September, that purchaser had apparently developed cold feet, because he flipped it to Mariani for $2.825 million. Whether Mariani was wise to bail out that first buyer remains to be seen.
The architecture here has, so-far, proved off-putting to potential buyers, but that’s not to say that one won’t come along; not everyone wants a colonial, even in Greenwich.
Strikes me as a wee sterile and institutional, no?
How does the Babylon Bee do it?
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Hahahahahahahaha! Eeeeee!
The post immediately below this one concerns Hillary Clinton’s announcement that she is running for reelection. That was supposed to be satire, but, turns out, yesterday Hillary took to the airwaves to boast “Obviously, I can beat him again”
Certifiable.
Breaking!
/Hillary announces she’s running for reelection
"After much deliberation, consultation, and prayer to Moloch, I have decided that I will seek a second term," she said to a crowd gathered at a local Wendy's restaurant. "I feel I haven't accomplished everything I wanted to in my first term, and I really need a full eight years to implement my final solution to all of America's problems."
"Orange man bad! Orange man bad!" she chanted at one heckler, though the heckler turned out to be a Wendy's worker asking if she wanted the Jr. Bacon Cheeseburger 4 for $4 or the chicken sandwich one.
Aides then gently ushered her back onto the bus to take her back to Bright Sunrise Home For Seniors.
I still say it’s gonna be Michelle.
I had to read this twice to make sure I wasn't missing some detail — I wasn't
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We’re living in Heinlein’s “Crazy Years”
Ontario dental hygienist stripped of his license for treating his wife — it’s “sexual abuse” for a medical care provider to have sexual relations with a patient, under any circumstances.
Earlier in September, Ontario’s Divisional Court released its decision to uphold the College of Dental Hygienists of Ontario’s (CDHO) discipline committee’s decision to revoke Tanase’s licence after he treated his wife’s teeth.
In Ontario, it’s considered professional misconduct if a dental hygienist has “sexually abused a patient.” According to the Regulated Health Professions Act, sexual abuse includes any sexual intercourse or other types of sexual relations.
Consent is irrelevant, and a spouse is included in the definition of a patient.
Court documents show that before Tanase started treating his wife, she told him that she had a fear of dental treatment and therefore hadn’t sought care in several years. After Tanase provided care to his wife, she posted on Facebook expressing her gratitude, at which point a complaint was launched to the CDHO.
“Once there’s a complaint, statutorily, under the Regulated Health Professions Act, the College shall investigate,” Abramson said. “They have no discretion not to investigate.”
You laugh, do you?
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Babylon Bee
Motorists will be required to watch a 20-minute lecture by the 16-year-old climate activist before they purchase gallons and gallons of harmful fossil fuels.
"We want to make sure drivers are informed," said California Governor Gavin Newsom, who says he will sign the bill into law. "So we are having them get lectured by a 16-year-old so they will have all the facts before they do something rash like put gasoline in their cars to go to work."
Once the driver has listened to Thunberg's entire lecture, they will be prompted to complete a quick, fifteen-question quiz to show they understand how horrible they are for driving a car. Drivers who get at least 80% will then be allowed to refuel their vehicles. As they refuel, the screen will simply play a clip of Thunberg saying, "How dare you!" over and over again.
Fortunately, there’s this: The law will not apply to celebrities purchasing jet fuel.
This isn’t as crazy as it may sound, because there will be a lot of Tesla owners hanging around fuel stations while they wait for their own 45-minute charge-up, and they can supply a ready source of enforcement agents while entertaining themselves hectoring their less enlightened fellows. Win, win.
Mid-Country spec house pending
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8 Buckthorne Lane, off Parsonage, is pending. Asking price is $3.995 million, though what it is actually selling for we won’t know until it closes. Builder started at $4.995 in early 2018, obviously aiming for the traditional building formula of 1/3 for land ($1.650, in this case), 1/3 for construction costs, and 1/3 for profit and overhead. That formula hasn’t worked in Greenwich for some time, and it didn’t here.
Still, for a rather sterile, back lot spec, he’s doing all right, even if it goes in the mid-$3s.
UPDATE: I have it on good authority that the builder turned down an offer “in the mid $4s” last year. That’s a common occurrence with both builders and homeowners: often, that first offer is the best one you’ll see.
Hillcrest Park contract
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3 Old Farm Lane, asking $1.549 million. Owners paid $1.525 in 2008, put some money into renovations and placed it back on the market last May for $1.749. For what it’s worth, the same house sold for $1.750 million in 2003.
It's probably no accident that there's an early-settler graveyard in the front yard
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398 Stanwich Road is off the rent roll and back on the market at $3.950 million. This is one of those Jordan Saper mega-homes, popular in 2004, when this one sold, new, for $5.550 million, but which have been losing favor since. These owners bought it for $5.350 in 2010 (down from its original 2008 asking price of $6.345, so it possibly seemed like a bargain, poor saps — or Sapers), and they’ve been trying to unload it since 2014, when they started at $5.695. They temporarily gave up that effort in 2018, when its price had dropped to $4.5, and rented it out. Now the tenant is gone, and so, too is at least $1.450 million, and that’s assuming they will get this price. My guess is that they won’t
Saper was (in) famous for his airplane hangar bedrooms, and this one’s CLASSIC. MAYBE IT CAN BE RENTED OUT TO STORE 737S WHILE BOEING FIGURES OUT WHY THEIR OWN PROJECT IS CRASHING