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View 721 Saturday, April 28, 2012

In an hour or so Niven and I will go off to blather about something or another at a book festival that our tireless LASFS marketing director  has arranged.  Yesterday I went out to Fry’s for the first time in months, and got a 27” flat screen monitor for Alien Artifact, the new Sandy Bridge system in the highly advanced (and by me recommended for its accessibility, cool, and quiet) Thermaltake case. I’ve been working on a column, and on the novel Niven and I are doing, and trying to keep up with everything.

I confess that I haven’t seen much in the news that sparks a strong desire to comment on it. The Reverend Al Sharpton and company came out to Los Angeles to commemorate the 1992 riots that burned out the Wilshire district and was commemorated by Public Television watching as crowds “Shopped” in stores across the street from them. Many of those stores never reopened but it’s prime enough real estate that it has new uses.

Obviously having parts of your city burned out is good for business. The economists will tell us so.  Or you can read Bastiat on What is Seen and What is Not Seen http://bastiat.org/en/twisatwins.html which will give you a better view of the effects of lowering the price of bread by burning down the bakeries. Los Angeles seems to have survived this visit by the Reverend Sharpton. One does wonder at the moral perspicacity of those who would accept him as their leader.

Anyway, I’m alive and well and working. Thanks to those who asked.  And I’ll do a mail bag sometime this weekend.