Flag Day 2011…

My flags are out,  but I had forgotten it was Flag Day.   Leon and Amy Kass  explain what  it means.

Will you be surprised that Google chose to ignore the day,  while Bing celebrated it?

Detroit shrinking…

I saw a piece on tv recently about Detroit’s plan to demolish its abandoned properties,  creating green space within the city for parks and gardens.    I couldn’t quite believe the figure of 100,000 vacant properties used in the program, but it was apparently correct according to  this.

I wish Mayor Dave Bing good luck with his plan to “right-size” Detroit, or reconfigure the city to reflect its shrinking population.  It remains to be seen if he can resist the high-tax, anti-business  regimes of so many of his predecessors,  which drove people and businesses from the city.   The program said little about the stupidity of politicians which put a once-thriving metropolis on life-support status.   That might have led to comparisons with New York,   and other cities being led equally badly,  wouldn’t it?