Arranging deck chairs on the Titanic

So just why would people leave the city for the suburbs.

Maybe it's because of this type of lunacy.

Los Angeles, the second-largest US city behind New York, would ban plastic bagging in all supermarkets, grocery and retail stores, the Los Angeles City Council said.

After July 1, 2010, customers must provide their own bags or buy bags made of paper or other biodegradable material from the store for 25 cents.

The goal is to rid the city of some 2.3 billion non-biodegradable plastic bags that are distributed each year and end up polluting waste dumps for a long time.

San Francisco, 600km north of LA, in 2007 became the first US city to ban plastic bags from its stores.

Both city regulations are intended to pressure state politicians who are considering a Bill to eliminate plastic bags across the state by 2012.

It's a good thing these cities are tending to their most pressing problems. The other evening, I saw a news report of those plastic bags jumping out and shooting someone in cold blood.

I guess people are more than willing to pay. After all, they have those amenities like the opera.