I just watched Oprah pump-fake a dog, who ran 10 yards off camera. Cats are better because you couldn’t get one to move more than four feet away before it recognized the deception.

I shared this fictional scenario with a recent Lyft passenger – Jeff Bezos demands all counties with Metro Atlanta agree to his purchase of MARTA and installation of a compentant and all-reaching public transportation system (PTS).

In exchange for their agreement, he would bring his 50,000 potential jobs to Georgia, while also ensuring all his employees would be able to use PTS to get to work on time. That’s the ideal way to sell it, but in honesty it’s a long-term gold mine, with or without the HQ.

It would likely take close to $500 million dollars to ensure everyone who needed to was paid and then some. But the result would be an all-encompassing PTS, funneling passengers to all points of this growing urban metropolis.

And while most pundits and naysayers would focus on that, the industry and hopefully the intelligent would recognize the monatary boon.

Because if it’s all under one owner, like Amazon, then all profits for said structure would go to Amazon. That means all naming rights, rent for spaces attached and or connected to said PTS and everything in between.

Because the true entrepreneur would use the PTS to create towns and structures within themselves; the ultimate Live-Work-Place type structure and as people grow lazier and lazier, they’ll soon be moving from PTS to PTS since it’s simple.

Those that live outside the PTS sprout towns would become outsiders as their property value and municipal attention would fade, soon to be replaced by the destitute and those that live off their existence, purpetrating the same irrational fear that prevented a quality PTS being created when this city first began to expand…and has kept one away ever since.

Ronda Rousey made her WWE debut at the 2018 Royal Rumble. Commenting on PTI, Tony Kornheiser said that he smells a final grasp at relativity and staying in the public eye.

He is 100 percent correct. That’s exactly what she’s doing because she has no other play to continue her current level of living. It’s true she was the biggest thing in Mixed Martial Arts (MMA), a sport that just became a thing in the 21st century.

She was on top and then she wasn’t. But if she was still there, what would be the next step afterwards? No athlete can play thier sport forever and one day, they’ll have to find something else to do with the time they spent conditioning themselves every day for the sport they loved.

In Rousey’s case, she lost and was quickly casts in a couple of movies. While that didn’t work, there’s little reason why it won’t in the WWE if she’s committed.

Honestly, with Ric Flair’s daughter holding the belt and apparently a large stack of talented females, if she can talk on the mic and sell even the smallest emotion, there are few better lucatrive outlets for retired professional athletes outside their immeadiate realm.

I grew up in a middle-class suburb, surrounded by houses and families with roots. Both me and multiple friends moved, but just to a new address inside the same town.

Like any child, my friends changed and stayed the same. But I still saw the same people and they saw me. I wonder how that’s different for a kid growing up in an apartment complex.

Like any area populated by adolescents, there are locations that are obvious places to play. At that age, it’s less important who you’re playing with so long as you’re outside the house.

Therefore, when I hear the voices of those playing soccer on the tennis courts, I’m almost certain that any child who was brave enough to step on the court would likely be allowed into the game. If they came back the next day, it’s planting a seed of friendship.

But where I was still seeing the same people, how is it when the parents of your new friend find something better? Or better yet, they’re forced to find something better? How is it switching and swapping friends?

I know what it’s like as a adult, moving to a variety of different locations and creating acquaintances at each stop. But I’m an adult and have ‘learned’ to accept living by myself. If I didn’t accept that, I have the option to transport myself to something better.

Well, I take that back. When I was young, I used a somewhat competent PTS to travel to various shopping centers and the hometown of a girl I’d only met over the phone and that’s the truth.