Heheh. Pretty much. Though since it's been raining more, smog isn't as bad right now.
BTW, we just set up a College Republican club here last year during the elections, and in those short six months, we are pissing off the Libs here (in the Socialist paper here, they claim that we were inciting violence since we crashed their anti-war anti-American protest. Yeah, apparently offering a different opinion is inciting violence [this coming from a group that put up some hate comments on the official UCR College Republican club like "Kill all White People!" Apparently we evil College Republicans will just go away if all the white people died. Nevermind the fact that I'm Asian]).
You got that smog question right! I got my AA from RCC in '72, then left for healthier air.
Went back to Riverside in '92 to visit a friend. Couldn't see, let alone alone read, the freeway signs at 100 yards that afternoon. Didn't have to worry about being distracted or upset by any nasty views of the San Bird-doo mountains.
The color was a better: less brown, and slightly more bilious, yellow; and they seemed to improved the sharpness of the ozone tang, but at the expense of acridity....
Oh the bright side, the air should have disolved that huge, Godawful red steel "sculpture" the city mounted in the mall near the Mission Inn by now.