Good article in Slate over the political battles that shape passenger rail service. It can be summed up with this argument. Rail can’t work because people don’t want to ride it. Liberals want to fund rail because they want to change behavior.
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The joke that is airport security in the United States
From The Atlantic back in 2008 If I were a terrorist, and I’m not, but if I were a terrorist—a frosty, tough-like-Chuck-Norris terrorist, say a C-title jihadist with Hezbollah or, more likely, a donkey-work operative with the Judean People’s Front—I would not do what I did in the bathroom of the Minneapolis–St. Paul International Airport, [...]
Roadtrip
On Monday five of us from work took a roadtrip to Calgary to check out the Salvation Army’s Centre of Hope, a large homeless shelter in the downtown of Calgary. I was the only non-smoker on the trip which meant a lot of stops along the way. Rosetown, Kindersley, Alsask, Hanna, and Drumheller. The trip [...]
WinterShines
Saskatoon is a wonderful place to live and work in the summer, maybe the greatest place in the world but in the winter it is a cold, windy, miserable place which has only three colors of nature, white, great, and brown. To help us survive winter without going crazy, Tourism Saskatoon has launched WinterShines which [...]
