Sep 11 2009
They come from Richard A. Cooper, a physician (not to be confused with Richard Cooper, the specialist in international economics). Orszag has argued that if Medicare spending could be as low in Newark as it is at Mayo, the nation could save billions. But this theory doesn't hold up in practice. Consider: One-fourth of...
Sep 11 2009
Like almost everyone else, libertarians typically argue that Herbert Hoover's policies exacerbated the Great Depression. But there's a key difference: Normal people blame Hoover's commitment to laissez-faire, but libertarians blame Hoover's proto-New Deal policies. Libertarian economists are particularly li...
Sep 10 2009
I'm heading for Yosemite later this afternoon. My goal: get to the top of Half Dome. I made it almost the whole way last year. If I get to the cables (in this picture from the web--that's not me; that's someone else) and then chicken out, I'll still be happy.
READER COMMENTS
Floccina
Sep 10 2009 at 4:04pm
Sounds like fun. This summer my wife and my two sons and I went to bottom and the Grand Canyon and back up. It was a great time.
Luke G.
Sep 10 2009 at 6:13pm
Yikes, where will you start from? That’s an 12 to 16 hour hike, as a I recall, depending where you start from. Good luck!
Devin
Sep 10 2009 at 7:00pm
Don’t chicken out! I saw a mother with two kids under 10 fly up and down the cables when I was there. Trip took me about 7.5 hours total, but we were pushing the pace. Good luck, it’s a truly awesome park, even if it’s run by the gov’t.
Yancey Ward
Sep 10 2009 at 7:30pm
Quite a hike if you start from the valley floor. If I remember correctly, it is 9.5 miles (one way) from the top of the second waterfall, but I could be misremembering. It has been four years since I was there.
John F. Opie
Sep 11 2009 at 12:39pm
Hi –
I’ve got these views from Glacier Point:
http://gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=30085
http://gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=30428
http://gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=30309
http://gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=30288
I envy you the hike: I was there with my oldest daughter (19) and she freaked at the idea of getting to the top…
John
Greg
Sep 15 2009 at 6:50pm
How did it go? You owe us a re-cap.
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