Monthly Archives: September 2009

Sucks to be back

Note: I emailed this in last Thursday for the paper’s weekend edition. Orgeon, Washington, and the northern coast of California are the states to be for those who have a taste for mountains, seacoasts and deserts. You can live on … Continue reading

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The middle class on the march

Note: This is my weekend op-ed for the newspaper. I penned it early because this Saturday I’m headed out on the road again! My son and I are going car camping through the north western states, maybe all the way … Continue reading

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Preliminary impressions; the march on Washington

I’ve been trolling for news from Washington after the March. First impression: I am semi-suicidally depressed I wasn’t there. First thing I found out (God bless the Internet!) from people who were there and are known to me, the numbers … Continue reading

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Dangerous numbers

Lately I’ve been thinking about numbers, specifically demographic numbers. I’ve written previously about the potential for chaos caused by sex-ratio imbalance in Asia, and commented on Mark Steyn’s wonderfully witty analysis of the demographic decline of Europe in ‘America Alone.’ … Continue reading

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Funny thing happened on the way to an article…

I got a request from my editor a few days ago. Reasonably simple, please get short opinions from doctors on what they think about health care. A vague questions to be sure. Refine it a little. What do you think … Continue reading

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The road to utopia

Note: This appeared as the weekend editorial in the Times-Record. The utopian ideal, the belief that something close to heaven can be created on earth, has been part of the fabric of the American national character since the beginning of … Continue reading

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