Weekend 203.0
(1) How Lord British Inspired Anorak (2) England, My England (Never Having Been There) (WSJ) (2a) Do you know WHO went to London? Toast!
Category Archives: Countries
Weekend 193.0 (Planes, Trains and Automobiles)
(1) Window of the World (2) FIAT Drive In (3) Ryōmō Line (3a) East Japan Railway Company (3b) Iwafune Station (3c) Tribute to Makoto Shinkai (Part III) (4) Tony Parsons Continue Reading →
Weekend 192.1
(1) Trouble on the China Express (WSJ) In a blistering essay titled “The Derailed Country,” posted online this past week and then quickly removed by censors, Han Han, one of Continue Reading →
Weekend 190.0
Absolutely gorgeous summer day in New England! (1) Bright Colors Struggle to Bloom in South Korea’s Silver-Car Nation (WSJ) (2) Adventure on the Rails (WSJ Magazine) (3) Custom Cycling’s Big Continue Reading →
Thomas Friedman was devastated…
China’s High-Speed Rail, Highly Suspect Related High Speed Rail To Nowhere…Winning The Future A Wasted Billion At A Time
Resplendent
The blogger with many visions™ is thawing. I just finished The Fighting Temeraire by Sam Willis. This book is more than a dry historical reprint; it is a graphic re-telling Continue Reading →
Weekend 148.3
From age to age you gather a people to yourself, so that from east to west a perfect offering may be made to the glory of your name. I was Continue Reading →
Weekend 148.0
Gorgeous view from The Petersham in Richmond, London, England. “The hotel looks out across the Petersham Meadows to the bend in the Thames. The meadows are protected from development by Continue Reading →
Thanks China!
“The US government has a technology, called a printing press, that allows it to produce as many US dollars as it wishes at essentially no cost.” – Ben Bernanke
Red Ink
A Weakened U.S. Goes to the G-20 The American leaders are under the illusion that their Keynesian spending and easy money policies actually have worked, 10% unemployment notwithstanding. It surely Continue Reading →