I live just down the street, and we're going to use some of these to pave the driveway,

That leads to a discontinuity in the approach (from the street) and the driveway if gravel is used.

Always live in the ugliest house on the street - then you don't have to look at it

What you're seeing with Occupy Wall Street and the others are people who are unhappy and they're directing their unhappiness now toward Wall Street and toward those they think are doing too well in our society.

I don't have a PR rep. I live in Vermont.

It isn't enough just to scream at the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations. We need our political system to start reflect this anger back into, 'How do we fix it? How do we get the economy going again?'