Sydney We looked at the glass both half-empty and half-full as we slogged around the unseasonable warm day in Sydney to our appointed rounds. First a train trip to the southwest suburb (incidentally neighborhoods here are called suburbs, so you never really know if you are in the city or out) of Bankston. …
Category: Personal Writings
Bailout Blues
Sydney The price tags when past ordinary organizing math over the weekend. Add the proposed $700 billion to create a “toxic waste” dump for Wall Street, and we are now going to be near a trillion dollars to the tax payers for what Bush called Wall Street’s “drunken” spree. Rightly, there should be some …
Long Haul Down Under
Sydney There is no way to ever say that you are really ready for a 14 1/2 flight, like the run United long hop from Los Angeles to Sydney, you should have to hunker down and make it and be buffeted by the excitement of a first time visit down under. For the last …