Lynne Kiesling Hmmm, haven’t done a wine review in a while; doesn’t mean we haven’t been tasting! Last night we had the New Gewurz 2005 from Alexander Valley Vineyards, a really great Sonoma County winery outside of Healdsburg. When we last were in Sonoma we visited there and had a lovely time. The New Gewurz …
Lynne Kiesling I heartily recommend Barun Mitra’s op-ed column in today’s New York Times on the importance of property rights in the conservation of the tiger: Yet for the last 30 or so years, the tiger has been priced at zero, while millions of dollars have been spent to protect it and prohibit trade that …
Lynne Kiesling What if you show up to the airport today with your laptop? I would not check a bag with my laptop in it for either love or money. I would turn around and cancel my trip. Would they let me put that in my plastic bag with my wallet and passport? UPDATE: I …
Lynne Kiesling I have to embed myself in Deep Thought today on a paper for a conference in September, so will have to content myself with offering you these links for your consideration: Patri Friedman’s Catallarchy post “Pigouvian taxes are not efficient if the money gets wasted”. This is a hugely important point, and is …
Lynne Kiesling Thank goodness this plot has been averted. Given the immediate restrictions on hand baggage etc., I am very glad that I am not flying anywhere in the next month.
Lynne Kiesling This Reason article from Ron Bailey provides a good, link-filled synopsis of the importance of BP’s Alaska pipeline shutdown. He takes a long-term view, and it’s a sensible analysis.
Lynne Kiesling Ooooh, this is enticing. Blenheim Triathlon, 2-3 June 2007. Feeds my sports lust and my Anglophilia, all in one go. Boy, the KP Spouse is going to roll his eyes when he hears about this one … and then of course there’s the London Triathlon, 4-5 August 2007.
Lynne Kiesling I love $10 words; my favorite is concatenation, as in “an unforeseen concatenation of circumstances”. I know I used it in my dissertation, and I think I lifted it from P.G. Wodehouse (out of the mouth of Jeeves, naturally). Thus I particularly enjoyed Jack Shafer’s Slate column from Friday on Martin Peretz’s use …
Lynne Kiesling This phenomenon has largely gone unnoticed, but for about the past year copper prices have been rising (prices are in cents per pound). As with other commodities, like oil, gold, manganese, and nickel, much of this price increase is a consequence of rising global demand due to economic growth, particularly in places like …
Lynne Kiesling This is a humdinger: BP’s Prudhoe Bay pipeline is possibly corroded and leaking, and will be shut down. Once the field is shut down, BP said oil production will be reduced by 400,000 barrels a day. That’s close to 8 percent of U.S. oil production or about 2.6 percent of U.S. supply including …
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