<![CDATA[Historians tell us that the fall of the Roman Empire took hundreds of years to accomplish, but at some critical point, events happened with such rapidity that the velocity made it almost impossible to halt them, much less turn back. Today, on the West Coast, Messed Coast™, we are somewhere on the spectrum between the attempted assassination of our leaders, hyperinflation, and the Vandal sack of Rome. Indeed, we have reached the Luigi Mangione velocity.]]>