Way outside the charter of this blog – but hey, it’s my blog, and if I want make the charter include paeons to my late grandfather’s love for his wife (which I have) or observations about how big a pain in the ass it is to travel into the US, I can.

US is most unfriendly country to visitors – survey

I have too many anecdotes about this: my cousin, a successful lawyer and business exec in Peru, waited years for a simple tourist visa to visit his brother, a naturalized citizen living in San Diego.

I wonder how many conferences are being hosted outside the US due to problems with foreign scholars entering the country?