Jakarta 35 days of Exile Maybe there is no going home? Someone with a working phone, please put a call into Noah and get the teams together, because there seems to be no end to the rising waters around us. Preliminary reports from Rita seem to have knocked down the Local 100 sign in front of …
Category: Ideas and Issues
Housing and Democracy in Hong Kong
Hong Kong 31 Days in Exile The ignorance of circumstantial travel produces opinions that feel certain even if they are not exactly logically defensible. It is in this way that I have come to believe that I could be happy living in Hong Kong and Buenos Aires. I like the cities — simple as that. I’m …
9/11?
San Francisco 30 Days in Exile People keep comparing the destruction of New Orleans with the terrorism of 9/11. Both were horrible but the analogy does no one a service. Both were terrible tragedies. 9/11 had a higher death count, while Katrina is still uncovering its dead. The World Trade Center was largely a place …