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<\/a><\/p>\nIn 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\u2019s for the first time in months, and got a 27\u201d 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\u2019ve been working on a column, and on the novel Niven and I are doing, and trying to keep up with everything.<\/p>\n
I confess that I haven\u2019t 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 \u201cShopped\u201d in stores across the street from them. Many of those stores never reopened but it\u2019s prime enough real estate that it has new uses.<\/p>\n
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<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n Anyway, I\u2019m alive and well and working. Thanks to those who asked. And I\u2019ll do a mail bag sometime this weekend.<\/p>\n 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\u2019s for the first time in months, and got a \u2026 Continue reading <\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"