Gulf Shores Babu Kahn runs the ACORN International and India FDI Watch office in Bangalore, India. He forwarded several messages that startled me from the torpor of steady warm, beach breezes on Gulf Shores. The headline announced “Citi Finance Roudism” and talked about some kind of suicide near Bangalore. I opened the file, and then …
Category: Personal Writings
Vaca Days
Gulf Shores Every 10 years we go camping in Wyoming in the Snowy Range Mountains outside of Laramie where I was born, but not this year. Two kids working who can’t get the time off, needing to spend time with my mother, and worrying about money like the rest of America, we found ourselves driving …
Crippling Shipping
Gulf Shores To see an article in the NYT calling globalization into question because of rising fuel prices must have left Thomas Friedman’s collar sweating in the editorial pages, but there it was right on the front page. Lord, they were even talking about “neighborhood economics” (which is not quite what we think of as …