Re: Losing the Future

> http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/264866/losing-future-mark-steyn

> I’ve been enjoying such moments since, oh, the short story “The Next 
> Morning” in the 1887 edition of Life, illustrated with a pen-and-ink 
> drawing of a headless statue with the smoldering rubble of the city 
> behind her. The poor old girl was barely off the boat from France, and 
> she’d already been pegged as the perfect visual shorthand for societal 
> collapse.

FWIW, I did a brief search for this image but couldn't find it; I did, 
however, find this:

http://2neat.com/magazines/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=2_35&products_id=265

> Maybe he should get out of the motorcade once in a while and swing by 
> LAX or LaGuardia: They’re already decrepit cheerless dumps . . .

It's been a few years since the last junket I went on, but yeah, LAX is 
not exactly an appealing place to be.  But I always wondered if it just 
*seemed* particularly bad because I was travelling between LAX and YVR; 
the Vancouver airport is a phenomenally beautiful thing indeed.

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