Laz Barrera was such a colorful character that Sports Illustrated dubbed him “the Casey Stengel of the racetracks”—a nod to the engaging way he would hold court like the old Yankee manager beloved for his rambling monologues.

In Israel groups called 'hasbarat' are even organised to manipulate Wikipedia, bulletin boards and create false flag racism.

He summarised the situation to me in RAIL 612: The railway is expanding. Sooner or later, after every engineering party trick, we run out of capacity.

We first met through a mutual friend.