Mexico is so safe that  the bus drivers collect fares, make change and have buckets  of money on display. The service at the  hotels and restaurants is great  and the beaches are world  class!Â...Read More
One of my book groups recently read The Fall of the Roman Empire by Peter Heather. It was a bit of a slog getting through the book but it lead to an unusually animated discussion about whether the p...Read More
“Economic Nationalism is Racism” Harry Binswanger in Forbes Magazine 8/20/2012 “People their products and their services must be judged on the basis of their individual, factual qual...Read More
We all know about the recent discovery of vast amounts of natural gas and oils shale in North America and Northern Europe. Â What we haven’t thought about yet are the tertiary affects of this d...Read More
I’m struck by the idea that the US, and others in the West, may be trying to goad Iran into a war. Before they get the atomic bomb. It would explain the assassinations, the tension in the St...Read More
The announcement card for the Map exhibit at USD have been published. Now the difficult part begins: Promotion and marketing. Hopefully we’ll do some Facebook and some press releases and som...Read More
The US Government, which is the majority shareholder of General Motors, is also the arbiter of automobile safety in the USA. Currently GM’s biggest competitor, Toyota, is having serious qualit...Read More
This is a story that they don’t teach to school children in the USA. But they do teach it in Costa Rica. I think it explains a lot about the suspicion that people in Latin America have about...Read More