Subscribe to Excerpts
Subscribe by Email
I am back in Los Angeles. Returning to LAX after a 12 hour flight from Rome, I waited one hour to get through passport control and another 40 minutes to clear customs. This part of the airport looks like a prison and it struck me that we were all wasting our time for no good [...]
Archive for March, 2011
March 26th, 2011
Category: Personal moment, Popular Culture
The other night I arrived at a restaurant about 45 minutes before my dinner companions, which led to an unusually gratifying wait. Above the bar was perched a mega-size high-definition television, but the sound was off and only gentle jazz issued from the speakers in the ceiling. As my shiraz arrived, William Wyler’s 1953 classic [...]
March 25th, 2011
Fox News/Pravda has sent the word out from the RNC: Kill Bachmann’s campaign.
March 25th, 2011
Category: Uncategorized
My Climatopolis takes some punches in this review by an urban planner. Apparently, I am not funny. My wife and son disagree. My book offers a free markets perspective on how urbanites and their cities will fare in the face of uncertain climate change. That’s ambitious and it hasn’t been done. Our ability to form expectations over [...]
March 24th, 2011
What’s worse? That the Right has been waging class war on working Americans for three decades? Or that progressives haven’t even been aware of it?
March 24th, 2011
Category: Libya
Juan Cole – an accredited expert, and no unthinking hawk – certainly seems to think so.
March 24th, 2011
I’ve only seen one or two Elizabeth Taylor movies. I can only identify a few of her eight husbands, and that’s double-counting Richard Burton. I do know that Elizabeth Taylor did a lot for gay rights and for honoring the humanity of people living with HIV and AIDS. She is missed. Taylor caught some criticism [...]
March 23rd, 2011
Category: Affordable Care Act, Disasters
One Dude threw on scuba gear and jumped into a tsunami. The other covered health reform. Both deserve a look.