News from the Northwoods

This blog posts about aviation, automobiles, electronics, programming, politics and such other subjects as catch my interest. The blog is based in northern New Hampshire, USA

Sunday, November 30, 2014

US College education is too expensive

I'm on a roll. What do you do to slow the rise of college tuition? Which has been way higher than the general inflation rate for decad...

Saturday, November 29, 2014

US health care is too damn expensive

The United States pays put 19% of GNP providing health care to its citizens. That is a staggering sum of money. All the rest of the world ...

Wednesday, November 26, 2014

Ferguson

Clearly Ferguson has a lot of very unhappy campers. Questions that the TV newsies aren't asking. Does the black community of Ferguson ...

Snow just started up here in Franconia Notch.

Follow up to the non stop weather forecasts. It's just at freezing, and light snow has started in the last few minutes.

Why do I bother to read them?

You gotta wonder about the Economist. A London based weekly news magazine with a long history and pretensions of seriousness. The end-of-t...

Tuesday, November 25, 2014

National Guard

The TV newsies have been pointing to the lack of the Guard on the streets of Ferguson last night. The Guard was called up, but was not sent...

Oz, the great and powerful, Disney

As a dyed in the wool Oz fan, I had to watch it. I first saw the original at age 5, my grandmother took me into Boston on the train, (Grand...

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