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A Neustadt Moment for Obama?
Inconveniently for someone in our business, I am spending most of today in transit -- the past three hours by car, the next six by airplane. Briefly, before boarding a flight at LAX, these reader...
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Two Non-American Views: Should Any Death be Celebrated?
Checking the mail here at LAX, after my note last night saying that Osama bin Laden's death was the rare exception to the principle that no man is an island and all deaths should be mourned, I find...
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Looking for US-Pak Background Reading? Try 'Bloodmoney'
Yes, yes, you should read all the first-rate newspaper and journal and online entries you can find about the tangled relationships among the United States, Pakistan, the CIA, Pakistan's ISI, the...
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The Osama Death Pictures: Why Not to Release Them
I write this after the news that the White House is considering release of photos of Osama bin Laden's dead body, but before any such photos have appeared. Two notes from readers on whether releasing...
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Two Cloud Updates: LastPass, CloudMagic
LastPass: Over the past few weeks I've chronicled various aspects of a Gmail hacking episode, about which I'll eventually say more in a "real" article. For now, another lesson-of-experience. In...
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LastPass Update: They're Under Attack Too
Please see UPDATEs below.Yesterday I mentioned that I'd found both convenience and (increased) security in the LastPass system for handling online passwords. Late yesterday, LastPass announced that its...
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Greatest Front Page Ever
This will never be topped. Thanks to Peter Thal Larsen and Andrew Sprung. But of course sincerest congratulations to the unnamed geniuses at the Weekly Telegraph, who figured out this solution to a...
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A Trip I Wish I Could Make
From the email inbox just now:Dear Colleague: You are invited to participate in the upcoming US Defense Industry Delegation to Iraq. We hope that you can be a part of this very important delegation...
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'Worse, Somehow, That It's Written Down'
So says an insightful reader, KR, about this speaker's-eye view of the event in Kentucky today: On the brighter side, a reader from Texas adds this perspective: >>"May God bless the United States...
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Go Lake People! Go Calves!
Things look bad for LA's pro basketball team, down 0-3 in the playoffs to Dallas. An American friend in Beijing sent in this report while watching Dirk Nowitzki and his Dallas teammates stage a...
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The Really Most Interesting Man in the World
I am no fan of Heineken beer, as beer. But Heineken as a cultural force is something else again. I take my hat off to any company responsible for an ad like the one below, "The Entrance." Yes, you've...
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The Post-1980s Generation: China and America
Last month I quoted a note from a young man in Shanghai about the bittersweet perspective of people in his generation. They were beneficiaries of a China that was booming economically, but were often...
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Is China's Muckraking Era at Hand?
Two very useful China reads:- From Patrick Chovanec in Beijing, this explanatory guide (including illustration below) to how the various anything-but-transparent parts of China's government system fit...
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Two Worthwhile Af-Pak/OBL Reads
1. I didn't watch Obama's interview on 60 Minutes last night. But the transcript -- on CBS's site, along with video of the full 34-minute session with Steve Kroft -- is surprisingly engrossing, direct,...
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Lake People / Calves / Walkers Update
(Please see crowdsourcing UPDATE below.) Following an item on Game Three of the Lake People - Calves showdown in the NBA West:1) 湖人队非常不好! The Lake People really stunk up the joint in Game Four...
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Worth Watching: Newton Minow, 50 Years Later
I'm just back from an extraordinary event at the National Press Club, in Washington. Fifty years ago today, Newton Minow, then John F. Kennedy's young chairman of the Federal Communications Commission,...
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Generations: We're All Nostalgic!
Let's review: First a Chinese 20-something wrote that members of his generation were strangely disaffected and nostalgic -- surprising in a sense, since everything was supposed to be better in today's...
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Hillary Clinton and Chinese 'Doom': the Dave Chappelle Factor
The new issue of the Atlantic is out -- yes, subscribe, it's very strong -- and among many great pieces is the cover story is by Jeffrey Goldberg, on what Arab countries might expect after the tyrants...
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In Defense of 'God Bless America'
Long ago I reconciled myself, Zen-like, to the certainty that all Presidential speeches for the rest of my life are destined to end with the same formulaic "Amen"-style phrase. I do from time to time...
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Full Chinese NBA Roster, Plus Big African Mountain
Just in time for the next round of the NBA playoffs, and thanks to two readers, each with the initials AK, here's your comprehensive source of the Chinese listings for NBA team names. This is on the...
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