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State of the Pomplamoose Report, 2014 Edition
No more fighting the Pomplamoose wars for me! If you're wondering what I'm talking about, you can start the background trawl here. In short: Some people love the indie group Pomplamoose. But some...
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What We Mean When We Talk About High School
Deb Fallows has a very interesting and popular post on her own site, about all the layers of pressure and significance that go into the question, "And where did you go to high school?" We can't...
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A Whole New Way to Think About House of Cards: 'Throwing Like a Girl'
To avoid spoilers, i won't tell you why Kevin Spacey is standing here, or what comes next. Via MLB.comThis post will end with the significance of how Kevin Spacey throws a baseball --in real life, and...
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The US News Editor on the Disappearance of Its Online Archives
Back before the InternetLast week Jim Romenesko first reported that US News -- a major print newsweekly from 1933 through 2010, an online publication since then -- had in effect erased its online...
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There's a Reason They Call It 'Eastport'
The Atlantic is all about the uplifting clash of contending ideas. Thus our current print issue -- yes, subscribe! -- carries a "correction" to my article in the January issue, about the beleaguered...
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Why We Read More Than 1 Paper, Cont.
Thanks to Lawrence Wilkinson, @samsteinhp, and @bgavio for pointers to screenshot above, for this installment in the ongoing saga. Hypothesis undergoing long-term testing: Under the ownership of...
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Happy and Unhappy in China
This new video by Stephy Chung, shot over the past few days of worse-than-ever airpocalypse in Beijing, is worth noticing for several reasons: - If you've spent any time in Beijing, you'll recognize...
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East, West, and Points In Between
Yesterday I rashly entered the "when does west become east?" debate, involving whether Maine or Alaska can more properly claim to include the furthest-east point in the United States. Now we hear from...
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On the Road Again: St. Marys
For the next few days we'll be reporting from St. Marys, a tiny town in the coastal marshland of farthest-south Georgia. Immediately to the east is Cumberland Island, now a National Seashore and once...
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John Boyd, From US News
I mentioned last week that among the contents of its pre-2007 archives that US News had irresponsibly eliminated, without warning, was a short essay I wrote when the military strategist John Boyd died....
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Chinese Media: The Bad and the ... Puzzling
1) Banana Man. Based on everything I have heard and observed, Gary Locke has done an excellent job as U.S. ambassador to China these past two and a half years. He managed the Chen Guangcheng episode...
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Today in Security Theater, Air Force One Edition
Flight Aware, via Ari OfsevitAri Ofsevit, of the Boston area, sent out a Tweet this afternoon saying "If you're flying in to Boston right now, uh, you aren't." It included the image above, from Flight...
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Friday Update: Filibuster, Surveillance State, Political Macho, and Other...
1) Fun with filibusters. Here we go again. Fellow news writers, it is really not that hard to work the word "filibuster" into your stories that deal with minority obstructionism. Yesterday we learned...
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The Malaysian Airlines Flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing
As I write (at 9:30pm EST in the US, 0230 March 8 GMT), things look bad for Malaysian Airlines flight 370 from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, but nothing is known for sure. The most illuminating information...
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On Strategic Calm, as a Virtue
I have been offline most of these past few days and thus not weighing in on daily developments. But let me mention three items whose similarity concerns cast of mind. 1) Adam Gopnik on Crimea. This is...
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Why Malaysia Airlines 370 Remains So Profoundly Mysterious, and Why a Better...
Here is the heart of the mystery over what has happened to Malaysia Airlines flight 370: If the airplane did keep on flying, presumably there would be evidence of that fact -- at a minimum through...
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Today's Malaysia Airlines 370 News: What It Means That Apparently It Kept on...
Overnight the Wall Street Journal reported (paywall) that the Boeing 777 flying as Malaysia Airlines 370 was transmitting data about its location for five hours after its transponders stopped...
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Malaysia 370 Update: Landing Strips, Cell Phones, and More
The ongoing Malaysia 370 investigation coincides with my being in transit, with family, and away from the Internet most of each day. (Writing this from the passenger seat of a car on a four-hour drive,...
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Where Malaysia 370 Might Have Landed: An Interactive Map
Recently I mentioned WNYC's map of airports where Malaysia Airlines 370 might theoretically have landed, considering how far the plane might have flown and how large a runway it would have required....
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Malaysia 370, Day 10: One Fanciful Hypothesis, and Another That Begins to...
I rejoin the Internet after a day away to find no additional hard evidence about the fate of Malaysia Air flight 370, but a number of new rumors and possibilities. To run through a few: 1) The "Radar...
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