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Shutting down this blog 12 Apr 2013 | 05:43 pm
I've come to the decision that I no longer wish to blog on a daily (okay, "weekdaily") basis, and since I have the option of going to Battleland (thanks to Mark Thompson) for the occasional post as I ...
Clinton v Bush (again!) 11 Apr 2013 | 07:54 pm
Story in NYT explores the obvious dynamics of the Dem Party that I hear from everyone in that camp: it's Hillary and nobody else even close for 2016 election - at this time. When I spoke at a GOP po...
Tracking agriculture's northward shift due to climate change 10 Apr 2013 | 06:09 pm
Fascinating NYT story on a subject I am very interested in tracking: how ag moves northward with climate change. This story focuses on ag's canary-in-the-coalmine, wineries. Nothing is more sensiti...
Time' Battleland: National Security - Hunting Down Bad Guys: China vs. the U.S. 9 Apr 2013 | 11:27 pm
A pair of ostensibly unrelated New York Times‘ stories recently jumped out at me. Understand, the paper itself made no attempt to link the two. What struck me was just how calmly the Times reported ...
Big(ger) computing comes to urban management 8 Apr 2013 | 07:59 pm
Simple example in a premier US city (#2 by pop, if I remember correctly), Los Angeles, which is famous for its bad traffic: LA now has all of its 4,500 traffic lights synchronized through a single so...
In Madtown, on spring break trip with kids 4 Apr 2013 | 06:32 pm
Pre-emptively moving bulk of household goods to local storage.
The inevitable counter-reaction to China's aggressive behavior in Asia 3 Apr 2013 | 04:44 pm
The easiest call of the last half-century: push Japan around enough and you'll get an end to its constitutionally-mandated pacifism. Unlike Germany, which self-flagelated to the point of altering it...
Millennials as a new way of approaching capitalism/consumerism 2 Apr 2013 | 05:25 pm
Interesting USA Today story on how "Millennials are demanding capitalism with a conscience, and some of America's biggest brands are delivering." I give a lot of speeches to middle-aged audiences (no...
The tricky thing about Kim Jong Eun 1 Apr 2013 | 08:12 pm
Good WAPO piece about the ratcheting up of brinksmanship by NorKo, which has gotten so aggressive as of late that SouKo pols are discussing the nuclear option - as in, get some. I was asked this last...
Have a blessed Easter 29 Mar 2013 | 06:56 pm
For all you who observe.
