Monthly Archives: September 2009
There really is nothing Easy about EasyJet
Dear friends Steve & Mary have returned from living in Australia, and so we will visit them in the UK. To do this, I did my level best to try and find a cheap flight from Zürich. “Cheap flight” and … Continue reading
We don’t need an opposition; we’re the Democratic Party
CNN reports today that Senator Max Baucus has been targeted in an ad campaign over his current health care proposal. As I live abroad it is hard for me to express strong feelings over the current debate, other than to … Continue reading
Grant Us Peace
I suspect we Americans all have very different emotions. Rather than express mine in my usual verbose way, I’ll simply write two things: my thoughts are with my cousins who lost a father, a brother, and a spouse eight years … Continue reading
Are Employees of the CIA above the law?
Update: CNN’s Peter Bergen points out all the flaws in Dick Cheney’s logic here. Over the last few days there have been a plethora of conservative commentaries that range in their argument from Dick Cheney accusing the Obama administration of … Continue reading
Ground Southwest?
This Monday’s Wall Street Journal reports that Southwest Airlines has been flying 82 planes for years with parts of unknown quality in potentially critical locations. The report states that the pieces in question are supposed to “protect movable panels on … Continue reading
