I have indeed noted Debbie Cook's election as one to watch, and I'm glad she has a chance - I was very much impressed by her in Austin, both during the panel, and on a separate occasion when I had the opportunity to talk to her for a bit longer privately. She's an avid reader of the Oil Drum.

A question: would there be any plan to link LAX to the HSR? That would certainly help in eliminating lots of smaller connecting flights in or out, no?

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes

i was fortunate enough to live and work in california for 6 months, living in s. cruz, and bopping down to L.A. (via esalen and H101!) to massage in beverly hills.

very nice period, amazing coast, wonderful counterculture.

trips to s. jose were a reality check...airport-sized parking lots filled with new tanks.

or over to watsonville, where the immigrants lived, so s. cruz stayed WASP-y. only thing i didn't like about s. cruz, everything else was stellar.

inland, it was redneck madness...modesto, bakersfield...shudder...

did some time in the seventies in marin and mendocino too, very wild woods living.

lovely shot of the bay!

'The history of public debt is full of irony. It rarely follows our ideas of order and justice.' Thomas Piketty