We did a lot of looking around and talking to people. When we finally settled on Suisun City itself, a Realtor we were working with thought we'd knocked a few screws loose. He warned us it was a depressed, crime-infested area.

It's a potentially politically charged issue because you're talking about vaccinating people against sexually transmitted diseases when they're 12 or 13.

Normally when you talk about housing bubbles bursting, you're talking about a specific local market. But we've never had a nationwide run-up in home prices like this. I don't think it's realistic to think the decline won't also be national. I think a 15 percent nationwide decline is very plausible. In many bubble areas, could be looking at 20-25, maybe 30 percent declines.

We're talking about 10,000 auctions on eBay being closed in a month. Or 10,000 individual sellers of counterfeits, and that's just on eBay.

If you're talking about building a city, you've got to create a place for everybody. This city doesn't just belong to rich white folk, and it doesn't belong to poor black folk.

Our ads were only talking about the judicial appointments.