August 5, 2003

The following is from a public health aid worker’s blog in Senegal, link. “I was asking an elderly woman about her vision and had a hard time understanding her answers in Wolof. Generally if I ask, “Can you see well up close?” they answer with something complicated, like “Well, I can see to sew sometimes…

State of Decline As usual, Prof. Paul Krugman of MIT’s comments on economic life are well worth hearing. “California’s slide into irresponsibility, in which politicians refuse to acknowledge any connection between the government services the public demands and the taxes that pay for those services, is being replicated all across America.” Indeed. “Proposition 13, the…

Blair apologises after spin dr. called Kelly a “Walter Mitty” Walter Mitty was a man who fantasised about a life of intrigue and mystery. But Dr. Kelly went on secret missions to confront Russian bureaucrats about smallpox bombs. As Alan Watkins put it in the Indy on Sunday, he knew much more about intelligence than…