Bullets
Okay, the winter doldrums are now here. We packed Alex and Abbie back to Ann Arbor yesterday, the kids are back in school, the football bowl season is over. It's time to hunker down and wait out the snow. Then again, the forecast calls for temperatures in the forties and fifties. * * * * * * * The most dangerous cities in America? Flint and Detroit, according to NBC News. The entire top 10 list can be found at this site. I was kind of surprised to see Little Rock and Birmingham on the list. I never really thought of them as meccas of violence. * * * * * * * Is inflation the product of capitalism or monetary policy? The latter, it would appear, if 200 years of U.S. price index history is any indicator: "As is clear by this chart, inflation was virtually unheard of until the Creature from Jekyll Island (the Federal Reserve) took over. However, more importantly, things didn't really start to get bad until the 1970s right after Nixon took the nation off the gold standard in 1971." * * * * * * * I don't post many sports videos, but this goal by the Red Wings' Pavel Datsyuk is must viewing if you're even the most lukewarm hockey fan. * * * * * * * And as long as we're looking at sports videos, check out this video of a run from 1983 that my sons recently asked me about:
