Category: Travel
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Schneier on the TSA: “This is a stupid game, and we should stop playing it.”
Security expert Bruce Schneier concisely describes our broken approach to airport security: It’s not even a fair game. It’s not that the terrorist picks an attack and we pick a defense, and we see who wins. It’s that we pick a defense, and then the terrorists look at our defense and pick an attack designed…
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Spain’s Blurred Cultural Divides (or how Newt Gingrich can’t even get xenophobia right)
Newt Gingrich states, “The proposed “Cordoba House” overlooking the World Trade Center site – where a group of jihadists killed over 3000 Americans and destroyed one of our most famous landmarks – is a test of the timidity, passivity and historic ignorance of American elites. For example, most of them don’t understand that “Cordoba House”…
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San Francisco
Yesterday I got back to Colorado from my spring break to San Francisco. I spent the week visiting with Alan, whom I had only seen once since high school graduation. His apartment is downtown just blocks from the Embarcadero, so we had easy access to all kinds of stuff. I got to hang out with…
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2009 Travel Log
I just finished my last trip of the year. I just realized how much time this year I’ve spent sitting on some form of transportation, and there’s been a ton. Here’s every trip I’ve taken, ordered by transit method: Air: Denver-Philadelphia Philadelphia-Madrid Granada-Liverpool Liverpool-Amsterdam Amsterdam-Barcelona Barcelona-Granada Madrid-Dusseldorf Dusseldorf-Prague Prague-Frankfurt Frankfurt-Madrid Madrid-Dublin Dublin-Chicago Chicago-Denver Denver-Cleveland Cleveland-Harrisburg…
Zeke Weeks 