Long-time readers of this blog will remember an article titled At Last, My Blog Lands Me in Hot Water!, in which local moving company Quick Boys attempted to threaten me into removing comments about their service. Those comments were in response to a one-line blog entry in which I asked the readers for recommendations about [...]
Category Archives: Caveat Emptor
The Economist’s Cocaine Index
June 28, 2007 – 11:29 am
Here’s a chart from The Economist comparing per-gram cocaine prices around the world:
Click the graph to see the Economist article.
It would seem that it’s not just prescription drugs that are cheaper in Canada than in the U.S..
For an economic index that’s a little less illicit, check out the Economist’s [...]
“Oh Beautiful, for Retail Space, for Shopping Elbow Room…”
June 26, 2007 – 7:53 am
Here’s a graph from a blog posting by Jim “Long Emergency” Kunstler titled Peak Suburbia comparing the retail space per person in the U.S., Sweden, the U.K., France and Italy. If the data on which this graph is based is correct, Americans have 6 times more retail space than the Swedes, 8 times that of [...]
Mistakes on a Plane
June 22, 2007 – 12:00 am
It’s a bad week to be an airline, and a worse week to be an airline passenger:
Computer Failure Grounds United Airlines Flights
Cathay Pacific Airlines Lets Passengers Sit For 7 Hours, Then Cancels Flight
Is Aviation in America at a Breaking Point, or are You?
Airline Passengers facing a Long, Hot Summer
Woman Says Breast Milk Kept [...]
Incontinental Airlines
June 21, 2007 – 1:30 pm
In Metroblogging NYC, Dana Bushman has a blog entry about flying on Continental Airlines from Amsterdam to Newark, a tale of delays, bad service and bathrooms leaking bilge into the cabin:
On Wednesday June 13th at around 2:00 pm my boyfriend and I boarded Continental flight 71 from Amsterdam to Newark along [...]
