Philip Fibiger

I often have a pretty fundamental disagreement with the politics of the economist, but I think that this article about the possibility of a war with afghanistan, and the possible gains/losses, is really interesting. I think that these sentences from the article really sum up how I feel about the possibility of war with afghanistan: bombing Afghanistan would probably be both unproductive and unpalatable. One of the poorest countries on earth, it has been battered by 22 years of devastating warfare. It might be possible to bomb a war-torn ruin of a country back into the Stone Age. It would be hard, however, to see the point.
To interject a little news about my life into these last few posts, a couple days before this tragedy in New York and Washington, there was an earthquake in los angeles, with the epicenter about 4 miles from our apartment. It was a 4.2 on the richter scale, and occured about 2 and a half miles under the surface of the earth, which is pretty shallow. I was sitting at my desk working at the time, and it felt like an 18 wheeler had crashed into our apartment building. The quake only lasted 10 seconds or so, but it was pretty intense. Nothing was damaged, but it was the most powerful earthquake in the Los Angeles basin since the 1994 earthquake in Northridge.
We’ve done a bunch of cool stuff in LA as well. We went to see belle & sebastian at the wiltern theater, saw a taping of the ellen show, and then just yesterday went to a free preview screening of riding in cars with boys, a new drew barrymore film. and we were paid 10 bucks each to be in a focus group for a half hour afterward. Paid to see a free movie and talk about it. I should do this more often.