December 2011
6 posts
State of Nature →
First of all, the transcontinental railroads were a poor use of capital. There simply wasn’t enough transcontinental traffic to warrant any transcontinental railroads, let alone so many. Even in the late nineteenth century, it was cheaper to send goods by steamship (with an overland journey in Panama). The railroads only survive because the Pacific Mail was a “lazy and corrupt” company. The...
Trash plus trash equals trash flavored trash.
“Very often, when I give my view that there is no supernatural dimension, and...”
– Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22 (via hitch-22)
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