Monthly Archives: November 2013

Migration and Population Size

There was a recent piece in the New York Times on Italy’s economic situation and how its high unemployment rate and stagnant economy appears to have led to a return of Italian emigration.  This story struck a personal chord given my own parents came to Canada during the post World War Two wave of immigration.  […]

What will really old, stupid, and uneducated people do?

Typepad puts almost all my comments in spam. Me! Don't they know who I am? I can fish them out of the spam filter when it's my own post, but it means I have given up commenting on other people's posts, both here and on other blogs, if they use Typepad. Because my comments go […]