What's New: Updated May 6, 2008

Eyesore of the Month -- May 2008

"Scenes From "World made by hand" New

a Riff on 'localism' for metropolis magazine

The KunstlerKast -- New Weekly Podcast
Riffing With Host Duncan Crary
Updated Thursdays

Interview with the excellent Megan Sullivan of the Bookdwarf blog

Speech to the Congress for the New Urbanism, April 2008 New

KUNSTLER'S APPEARANCE ON 'THE COLBERT REPORT' New

World Made By Hand Website -- Now Up and Running
(Includes entertaining video)

The Daily Grunt
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May 6, 2008:

Peckerhead of the Week Award to. . .

Harvard's Feldstein Says U.S. Economy `Sliding' Into Recession

May 6 (Bloomberg) -- Harvard University economist Martin Feldstein, a member of the committee that charts the American business cycle, said the U.S. economy is ``sliding into a recession.''

I wonder how this came to his attention?

The Gas Tax Holiday
     This is one of the more amazingly inane ideas to come along in a long time. It appears to be supported by just about everybody except Barak Obama and Sheldon Silver, speaker of the New York Legislative Assembly. Hillary Clinton and John McCain gave it the full monte demagogue treatment.
     The discussions about it so far have mostly focused on the probability that the gasoline retailers would simply raise the pump price to get it back up to exactly where it was before. A few people mentioned that gasoline taxes make up a subtantial amount of the funding for bridge and highway repairs -- an important point. But to me, the most obvious shortcoming of the Gas Tax Holiday has been completely overlooked, namely, the impossibility of coming back in the fall and restoring the tax! What politician would have the cojones to tell the public that the holiday was over?

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