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Archive for the ‘Travel Commentary’ Category
April 5th, 2006
More on population decrease and its causes and costs.
April 4th, 2006
Category: Politics and Leadership, Travel Commentary
Several readers wrote with comments similar to Andy’s reactions to my post on the low birth rates in most of Europe and their probably consequences.
Taking Andy’s points in order,
1. Yes the average population density of Europe is high compared to the US. That is not why housing is expensive in those of its cities [...]
April 3rd, 2006
Category: Politics and Leadership, Travel Commentary
Mike O’Hare wonders why Europe’s population decline causes so little alarm. Could it be because there’s nothing wrong with it?
April 1st, 2006
Category: Politics and Leadership, Travel Commentary
Italians and Frenchpeople are now on the endangered-species list. How come no on in Italy or France seems to care?
March 29th, 2006
Category: Policy briefs, Travel Commentary
Singapore has always been a public policy wonk’s delight, a place where the implications of policy analysis and thinking outside the box can be put in place and tried out. It’s famous for the (now-repealed) prohibition on sale of chewing gum and caning criminals, for suppressing The Economist, and for the ruling party’s habit of [...]
March 14th, 2006
Category: Travel Commentary
Singapore is just across the Pacific from California, but the Pacific is unnecessarily wide (not intelligent design, in my view) so the flight is a sixteen hour trip with one stop. Because of the date line, one arrives home (eastbound), rather weirdly, an hour after leaving. The flights gave me much more time than [...]
January 11th, 2006
Category: Travel Commentary
For the last week, I’ve been in Jackson Hole, and in Salt Lake City a few days before that. Now that I’m leaving tomorrow, a few reflections:
a) The Mangy Moose in Teton Village no longer allows smoking. I’m not sure, but I believe that this was one of the signs of the apocalypse.
b) People in [...]
“Ya think?” dep’t
NYT headline:
“Disclosures on Palin Raise Questions on Vetting Process”
Posted: Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008 at 1:06 am
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