Features by David Deutsch
| 2010-08-19 | In Transit: San Fran Tran (part 1) For a mere $20 I got three-day unlimited access to the MUNI system, which included buses, the cable cars, and the trolleys, which looked like New Jersey diners on wheels. |
| 2010-07-28 | In Transit: More on Libertarianism A libertarian blog determined that I am “completely fucking clueless” and said my political beliefs were somehow akin to “initiating violence against” people, or something. |
| 2010-07-14 | In Transit: Travel Planning and the Digital Divide Like most new business owners, I’m pretty much broke. But I have to go to San Francisco for business. So what’s a broke, self-employed guy to do? |
| 2010-07-10 | In Transit: My Three Years I dusted off my resume and began applying for jobs to prepare for graduation. And so I applied for jobs. Then I applied for more jobs. And then I applied for yet more. |
| 2010-06-30 | In Transit: Could Afghanistan’s Riches Destabilize the U.S. Economy? Yes, I know this is a loaded question. But if it’s true that past is prologue, the discovery in Afghanistan of one trillion dollars in mineral deposits … |
| 2010-06-16 | In Transit: Can Recessions Be Good Things? This recession has been more painful than most: food bank reserves are depleted, children are going to bed hungry, and career opportunities have been thrown in reverse. |
| 2010-06-02 | In Transit: A Nation of Toll-Roads: Why Libertarianism Can Never Work Libertarianism has been in the news a lot lately, thanks to Kentucky Republican Senate nominee Dr. Rand Paul. And we are much better off because of his candidacy. |
| 2010-05-08 | Chinatown Buses: Getting More Than You Pay For Every time I visit my native East Coast, I am amazed at all the cool stuff I did not take advantage of: I did not visit Ford’s Theatre. I never visited Gettysburg. |
| 2010-03-17 | The Bus Stigma My first assignment as a Federal Transportation auditor was an examination of excessive customization of transit buses. Manufacturers were complaining that local … |
| 2010-02-17 | Haiti and the Southland Haiti has, for obvious reasons, been on the top of the news cycle lately. There isn’t a lot that can be said about the catastrophe that isn’t strikingly obvious. |
| 2010-01-07 | Feeling Warm and Fuzzy With Green IT Making IT green requires a concerted and focused effort by all stakeholders in an organization because IT is a really big consumer of energy and it impacts everyone. |
| 2009-11-30 | We Killed the Electric Car Not long ago, I saw an amazing documentary called Who Killed the Electric Car? This film tracked the rise and fall of the GM EV1 electric vehicle … |
| 2009-07-22 | The Structurally Irrelevant One advantage to sinking yourself $85,000 in debt and getting a Masters from USC is that every so often you actually learn something. |
| 2009-06-18 | Fear the Auditors She squinted, put on her reading glasses and slowly said, “Am I reading this right? Does this say he billed for a … spanking tour?” |
| 2009-05-29 | Don’t Fear the Auditors A group of serious people in serious suits with serious looks on their faces comes barging in. |
| 2009-05-14 | Malthusian Planning Panic, famine, social unrest, and maybe the return of Gozer the Destructor. |
| 2008-12-17 | The Expo Line: What the Hell? Building a mass-transit system in an earthquake zone. Ummm … |
| 2008-10-17 | Bubbles, Part II: Green Power, George Carlin and Housing L.A.’s Poor A cabal of ultra-rich people at the top of the economic heap? |
| 2008-07-10 | Dutch Tulips, The Boston Massacre, and Housing L.A.’s Poor Economic bubbles (and their associated mass hysteria) are fascinating phenomena. |
| 2008-06-07 | Bent Flyvbjerg: Teach Your Kids It’s Not a Dirty Word He’s probably the world’s leading expert on wasteful public works projects. |
| 2008-05-01 | Los Angeles’ Mass Transit System Is a Form of Neo-Apartheid “Was that your Civic?” he half-snickered, not even trying to conceal his amusement. |

