More freak weather
Friends who relocated in southern Utah from LA told me temperatures have been down to minus 20 to minus 30 for the past several nights, and people who were born and raised there say it’s never ever been that cold.…
Politics in the Zeros
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
Politics in the Zeros
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
Day January 16, 2007
Fidel Castro in “serious and deteriorating condition”
Three operations have failed. His death, it appears, could be near.
Sustainability and southern California
When you step back and look at the gigantic urban sprawl that is southern California it seems evident it can’t continue functioning as it is. Think about it. Traffic, as blogged here before, is utterly dysfunctional. It gets steadily worse…
Iraq. It’s Vietnam all over again.
Robert Kaiser, WaPo reporter who covered the Vietnam War for 18 months, bemoans that the US has made historical blunders twice, first in Vietnam, now in Iraq. He does lots of hand-wringing about US mistakes, but nowhere does he ask…