Sunday, September 13, 2009

Not a number to be proud of

5 comments:

kimc said...

This is fun. But sad. I wish I could speak French....

ogre said...

Moi aussi, kimc, moi aussi. (There's always Louisiana!)

kimc said...

We are seriously thinking of moving to another country. I have no talent for learning a language at all, and am too old anyway. So it's Canada or New Zealand -- or England (though it sounded like a foreign language when I was there briefly.)
Wouldn't it be nice to live some place really civilized?

ogre said...

We considered it--but for the time being, we're committed to trying to help drag the US into being really civilized. The whole world, as well as the US, needs it to be that.

Anton Sherwood said...

Without knowing the scoring criteria, one can't infer anything meaningful from the number. Is the ranking based solely on outcomes, or are there points for government involvement regardless of whether it helps or hurts?