Archive for January, 2009
Airlines Come Back to Earth
It’s hard to write a post about the current state of air travel without making any crashing references, but that’s probably not entirely appropriate in the wake of the US Airways crash landing on the Hudson. The current state of the four major carriers is just that, however, crashing down, down, down. AMR, the parent [...]
January 22, 2009
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Economic Bailouts and Flypaper
There is currently a lot of sparring going on between President-Elect Barack Obama and Congress about where to spend the next $350,000,000,000 of the economic stimulus package. Obama has already pulled his tax credits for jobs created idea from the plan, and that is a good thing. Currently, Congress also wants tighter controls on how [...]
January 13, 2009
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Genetic Resistance and Public Goods
The New York Time ran an article today documenting the fact that this season 99 percent of all flu is genetically resistant to the top anti-viral drug, Tamiflu. Last year this number was about 11 percent. That is a bit scary, but according to the article, this is a down year for the flu, so [...]
January 8, 2009
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It’s So Not Over, Either
While watching the fun in in DC as Roland Burris tried to get seated, I realized that even when this blows over, the fun is just beginning. We, of course, still have the Norm Coleman vs. Stuart Smalley Al Franken mess in Minnesota, but we also have New York, where Secretary of State to be, [...]
January 7, 2009
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Blago, Burris, and the Senate Mess
At this point in time, Roland Burris has been blocked from taking the US Senate seat vacated by President-Elect Barack Obama. In a sadly comic way, Burris walked into the Sentate and introduced himself as the junior Senator from Illinois. However, he was not accepted because his papers are not in order. Apparently, it is [...]
January 6, 2009
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