New Orleans I’ve been thinking about this for awhile in utter frustration at the Government’s protection of banks and unwillingness to write down principal to allow homeowners to rightsize their payments with their home values and protect their citizen wealth. I’ve come right up to the line of accusing Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner of pimping …
Month: January 2010
Sheriff Arpaio Borderline Weirdness Alert
San Jose Preparing for reentry to the US, it made sense, given all the recent publicity, to check the border crossings and see what was involved before showing up at the airport 3 or 4 hours early to wend our way home. Naturally for a view of whackiness at its worst, I thought I would …
Guaranteed Tips and Happy Costa Ricans
San Jose Nicholas Kristof did a column in the Times in his usual didactic, rah-rah fashion trumpeting the happiness of Costa Rican people (http://bit.ly/6i0csw). He cites a couple of different “surveys” where Costa Ricans self-evaluate and cobbles this together with the point that in 1949 the government shutdown its army and investigated more in education …