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Missing the Bus, or Milton Friedman’s Legacy

April 24th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Politics and Policy

It’s Pesah, and the kids wanted to liberate Mom and Dad from their keyboards for a day of hiking, perhaps an overnight. We all have to leave our personal Egypts, after all. Nonetheless, I went back to screen, to check bus routes at the Egged bus site . Our family is among the holdouts, still [...]

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