07.09.06
The Real North Korea
A Russian web designer gives us a look at Pyongyang and vicinity. (Disclaimer for comment language).
NOTE: the server above appears to be having bandwidth issues displaying the photos. Here is the original Russian language site.
Florida’s Homeowner Insurance Crisis
The Tampa Tribune/TBO continues to run letters from homeowners either being priced out of the insurance market, or unable to find insurance, period. Meanwhile, this St. Pete Times editorial interestingly comments that “government is seldom blamed for the problem”. Perhaps if there were LESS government regulation, insurers would’t be forced to, for example, cover high-risk homes (due to proscription of “redlining”, which would allow insurance companies to deny coverage to such homes, while providing coverage to lower-risk homes in the same zone). Oh, but we wouldn’t want Citizens or FEMA to get out of the insurance business now, would we?