Opinion: Sprawl, Inflation and More: A Weekend’s Worth of Opinion

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Weekend and Monday Opinion from the LA Times:

Tyler Green: The Air and Space Museum is falling
Why is Congress ignoring neglect at the Smithsonian Institution?

Kenneth S. Baer and Andrei Cherny: Wake up, Democrats: Ideas and vision do matter
Just waiting for the Republicans to self-destruct is a losing strategy.

Niall Ferguson: When will China pull the plug on North Korea?
The communist empire has the goods on its saber-rattling tin-pot neighbor.

Richard M. Mosk: Americans could use a Muslim pen pal
An old tradition could help bridge the cultural divide.

Editorials

We aren’t all pirates
Anti-piracy proposals before Congress could limit innovation and legal uses of technology.

Setback for marriage justice
New York and Georgia courts will be on the wrong side of history of gay marriage.

DWP drips cash
Utility rate hike could be worse. But that doesn’t mean we’re pleased.

Selected Weekend Commentary:

Robert Bruegmann: Gridlock, schmidlock
L.A. traffic isn’t as bad as you think. Try driving 60 mph through the center of Paris.

Joel Kotkin: Don’t feed downtown L.A.’s white elephant
Convention Center giveaways line developers’ pockets at the expense of the rest of the city.

Douglas Rogers: Where a beer costs $150,000
Inflation is strangling Zimbabwe.

Gregory Rodriguez When populism goes too far
Mexican presidential loser’s attacks on the nation’s electoral system threatens its fledgling democracy.

Jonathan Turley: Bush: 60 and still a ramblin’ man
A journey inside the birthday boy’s mind.

Meghan Daum: I’m with Google
Search engines are seeing our inner shopper, but are we selling ourselves short?

Douglas W. Kmiec: Who really rules the Supreme Court?
In Kennedy’s swing vote vs. Roberts’ consensus-building, the chief justice holds sway.

Robert A. Pastor: Mexico’s election lesson to U.S.
The country’s democracy looks messy on the outside, but its transparent system could teach us a few things.