Lynne Kiesling About a foot of snow over the past 30 hours. Here’s how the KP street looked at 7AM after we finished our shoveling: I used the “landscape” setting on my camera, which doesn’t seem to do too well with focus. But you get the point; it’s gorgeous here! In making what I thought …
Lynne Kiesling So Ray Gifford thinks I’m going to defend Ryne Sandberg’s election to the Hall of Fame because “he’s dreamy.” Instead, here’s how I’ll defend it: Average fielding percentage over 16 seasons of 0.989 Selection for the All-Star Game 10 years in a row, 1984-1993 NL Gold Glove second baseman every year for nine …
Lynne Kiesling In today’s Wall Street Journal Richard Posner has a commentary on the probability of catastrophe (subscription required), largely inspired by the tsunami last week and his new book, Catastrophe: Risk and Response. From the Publisher’s Weekly editorial review of the book: Criticizing the “blinkered perspective” of civil libertarians hung up on constitutional law, …
Michael Giberson Tom Casten, CEO of Primary Energy, gave a rousing keynote speech to the International Association of Energy Economists last July in which he argued that about 30 years ago the economics of power generation tipped in favor of decentralized combined heat and power projects. Unfortunately, large centralized power generation is what power companies …
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