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Andy Kessler wrote recently in Wired about whether we really need the US Postal service. What would happen, he asked, if this 180-year-old dinosaur disappeared tomorrow? Plenty of good things. The mailing of bills is this giant’s Achille’s heel. Because paying bills on line makes so much more sense–it costs […]
Just finished Mark Blowden’s wonderful account of the manhunt for Pablo Escobar, “Killing Pablo.” The ultimate end came after months and months of searching, and especially, of listening. There was a young commander in the Colombian Search Bloc who got very adept at using a device provided by the CIA, […]
Last night’s television viewing brought forth two pairs…a black man with a white wife and a black woman with a white husband. They were destined to meet on “Wife Swap,” that terribly tacky yet totally fascinating improbable show where wives are traded and experience another’s life. Black wife was lazy…and […]
I was invited to go to Dallas. I checked out the DFW tourism website and found out that one of the attractions in Fort Worth is Billy Bob’s Texas…one of the largest nightclubs in the world. Here are some fun facts about this Texas-sized beer joint: Our rated capacity is […]
A Manhattan couple recently moved to DUMBO, one of Brooklyn’s newest, hippest neighborhoods, reports today’s Times. One night after a snowfall, they ventured out to Brooklyn Bridge Park, to watch the twinkling lights of the city across the East River. They spotted a small animal frolicking in and out of […]
One of my favorite movies of recent months, Sideways, was in today’s New York Times with critics who loved the movie squaring off against those who are afraid of how it glamourizes boozing. How about the message of having a one-week affair just before you get married? Well I loved […]
Met a guy on the phone the other day who runs hotelshark.com. he was wise in an internet way….explaining carefully the science of cost per click and how in a retail store, it is all about cost per foot. “You see on the web, if there are six choices of […]
Found this snippet today on the web Ever since the small Peruvian village of Chucuito discovered ancient Inca ruins nearby, said to be a site where Inca women would go to cure infertility, the village has become a mecca for millions of tourists each year. People from all over the […]
GoNOMAD: Dining with Nomads in Iran This is the kind of story you’ll find on our website. I love publishing stories like this!
This just in from the people who are cracking down on illegal immigrants, from AOL news:“We’re busy all the time,” says Jonathan Rust, chief of the Air Transportation Unit for ICE, which is a division of the Department of Homeland Security. “We have two (Boeing) 737s and two MD-83s, and […]
Picked up a fast-paced read the other day, my Valentine’s day present from Barnes and Noble. It is a book called Killing Pablo, about how the US government helped track down and kill Pablo Escobar, the most notorius Colombian drug cartel leader of all time. The story provides a glimpse […]
The Detroit News had a feature story about GM that illustrates part of why this behemoth company lost more than 2.6 billion since 2000. It has to do with not noticing that in Europe, diesel engines are the way of the future, even though back in 1999, they were just […]