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Latest Google Gizmo: Flight Search
You may have seen this already, but in case you haven't in the few days the feature has been available...In a Google search box, enter "Flight" followed by the airport abbreviations for any two cities...
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May 35th
I have nothing special to add about the events in China 22 years ago, except simply to observe that they happened. It is worth continuing to note this anniversary in the rest of the world, since the...
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What's Wrong with America, Chapter 817: Sen. Richard Shelby
I don't like to personalize politics. But there's no avoiding it in this case. I'm on the other side of the Pacific for a while again, talking with various foreigners who have theories about "America's...
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Poor Rep. Weiner
I'm across the Pacific and on a shaky connection. So I'll make this quick:I've always liked Rep. Anthony Weiner's "Hey, shuddup, liberals can be tough too" schtick -- as I have James Carville's. There...
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'Leave It to the Voters'
Many people have written in to disagree with my saying that Rep. Anthony Weiner has hurt himself so badly that he now weakens his side in the national debate (which I generally agree with) by staying...
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Appointment Jujitsu: Peter Diamond for CEA Chair
The Obama Administration has had some bad news on the economic-personnel front. Of course it has also had bad news on the economic-realities front, and the developments are connected. The two-part...
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On Rep. Weiner and 'Fiduciary Duty' to the Staff
Joshua Green highlights the predictable but still funny Jimmy Fallon riff on Weiner's "staff."Here is a message from a friend who has worked in politics for years including as a U.S. Senate staffer. It...
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More on 'Fiduciary Duty' of Leaders to Supporters (Updated)
(Please see update below.) I tried to explain yesterday why staff members and supporters felt so betrayed when the politician to whom they'd committed time and treasure -- today it's Rep. Weiner, but...
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Great Moments in Headline Writing
China Daily, eat your heart out. Full story here. Thanks to Glenna Hall. And congrats to the unbylined headline genius of the Seattle Times. Plus, great dialogue from the story:>>The victim...
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An 'Economic Burden' Google Can No Longer Bear?
This is insider-tech talk, but I think it is very interesting in its implications -- about language, "big data," Google's strategies, and the never-ending recalibration of goods vs bads, "signal to...
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In Which I Become a Republican
At least for purposes of admiring the panache and "a dish best served cold" gleeful nastiness of today's proclamation by Gov. John Kasich, Republican of Ohio, that the Dallas Mavericks and their...
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A Thought for the Day
I am away from bloggery for a while on other duties. In the meantime, words to live by, as a friend saw them today in Beijing: Previously on this theme: why translation, computerized and otherwise,...
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The Glamorous Life of a Journalist (Weiner Dept)
From the inbox just now. >>Hi James,Are you looking for quotes on the Anthony Weiner resignation?As a "Media Consultant," I have plenty to add on the topic.I can talk about the "Anatomy of a...
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Obama Is Wrong About Congress and Libya
I am not a Constitutional law expert. But I've lived through enough cycles of America entering, waging, and recovering from wars to be absolutely sure in saying: the Obama Administration is making a...
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The Case for Stiff-Arming Congress on Libya
This note, from long-time Atlantic reader mikey, is in response to my argument that Obama was hurting himself and the country with legalistic (as opposed to broadly convincing and historically...
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June 23: Embarrassment of Riches in DC
If you're looking for entertainment next Thursday night, June 23, in Washington, please come to the famous Politics and Prose book store (which is under new ownership as of today) to hear Brooke...
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One-Man War in Libya: Is Congress Mainly To Blame?
In response to my argument that President Obama is wrong not to involve Congress in the decision about war in Libya, a scholar of Congress named Charlie Stevenson says I've misidentified the real...
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Class War on Metro North
This video has been all over New York-based internet sites in the past few days. But I don't think it has yet been on any of the Atlantic's sites, and it is worth another look for "the way we live now"...
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Class War, for Father's Day
Following the "do you know what schools I've been to?" installment from yesterday:1) A really excellent story by Peter Whoriskey in today's Washington Post about the role of rapidly-inflating CEO pay...
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The Glamorous Life of a Journalist (WashTimes / FT / Weiner Dept)
On the day Rep. Weiner resigned, I mentioned the press release I received from a PR firm. The sender, whose name I didn't give, was Jess Todtfeld, and he offered his insights on Weiner:>>Are you...
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