Monday, July 23, 2012

Olympic Sailing NOT on TV

why have sports that won't be televised at all???  Learn from the America's cup here folks:

Team racing, match racing, catamarans, skiffs, windsurfing, and kiting would be a lot of fun to have on TV.  Everything else is boring to watch, so find a different way to celebrate the sport internationally. That said, good luck to all my friends over in England competing.
Is it just preference?
Krugman may wax nostalgic about a childhood spent in the suburbs where plumbers and middle managers lived side by side. But I doubt that many of his fervent fans would really want to live there. If so, they might try Texas.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-07-19/how-the-elites-built-america-s-economic-wall.html 

From the department of unintended consequences:
“They also receive free dental and medical services during their imprisonment. “Combined with the relative safety of their work in prison compared to the dangerous work at sea, Australian imprisonment is very desirable.”
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/marginalrevolution/hCQh/~3/XyRhDWuoJFE/immigration-to-australian-jail.html 

Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Thursday, May 13, 2010