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Your Mid-Afternoon Airline 'Safety Theater' Fix
On whether rules against Kindle-reading, or using your digital camera or wearing your noise-cancelling headphones, on takeoff and landing make sense, a few recent additions from reader mail:Maybe we...
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On W. Mitt Romney, and the Mystery of Names
Several people have written in to recommend yesterday's Fox News interview of Mitt Romney, by Bret Baier. The main theme of the messages is that these few minutes offer a glimpse of why, even though on...
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I Love Wikipedia, But...
They really have to do better than the current "please give!" campaign (I have!), in which a series of real-life photos go in the upper left corner of the search page, above whatever name or concept...
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In Defense of Turkey's TSA
Last week I shared a reader's photo of the security scene at the airport in Kayseri, Turkey, where travelers had to pass through a TSA-style screening checkpoint to get into the terminal itself: Here...
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More from Jon 'Call Me Crazy' Huntsman
I have no idea how things will turn out for Jon Huntsman in this campaign. Maybe the party will give in to its increasingly evident gag-reflex about Mitt Romney -- and also gag on Newt Gingrich, as it...
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Images of Asian Transport, Featuring Subway Supermen and Dancing Flight...
From the Beijing subways just now:Translation of the caption, courtesy of longtime Beijingite SK:Forging a civilized brandConstructing a humanistic model of the subwayStrive to be a service supermanIf...
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The Case for (and Against) a Huntsman Moment
You have to love the Huntsman campaign's response to the Onionesque idea of a debate moderated by Donald Trump: "Lol. We look forward to watching Mitt and Newt suck-up to The Donald with a big bowl of...
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Now This Is the Way to Suspend a Campaign (Herman Cain Dept)
I was listening in a place where I couldn't take notes, so this is paraphrase till I get a transcript. But, three extraordinary moments at the end of Herman Cain's "suspension" speech just now:1) His...
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Department of [Your Name Here] Security
The results are in! The ever vigilant Department of Fear conducted a poll last month on the right new name for the Department of Homeland Security. More than 3,000 votes were tallied. Here are the...
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If We're Nearing 'Peak Newt,' It's Time to Talk More About Huntsman
In the nuthouse festival that is the 2012 GOP race, the recent rise of Newt Gingrich can mean only that his fall is imminent. Will it be Jon Huntsman's turn next? We can think of reasons to be...
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China Air-Quality Catastrophe—It's Back
Everyone I know in Northern China has been writing about the recent sieges of off-the-scale air pollution, especially in Beijing. Much of the political and press controversy involves "PM 2.5" -- the...
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Found Art of the Day
Courtesy of former guest blogger Glenna Hall, referencing a find by Matt Loschen earlier today: I don't know which explanation I prefer: that this was a pure accident of algorithmic news placement, or...
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Good for Obama, Bad for Huntsman
No "false equivalence" from the White House today, in blaming the Senate minority for blocking, by threat of filibuster, yet more judicial nominations:I am deeply disappointed that a minority of the...
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Chinese Smog Disaster Rouses Chinese Media
Extra info about the recent bad-air crisis:- Global Times (think Fox News for Chinese nationalists) shockingly uses the word "smog" in a headline on Dec 6, instead of the conventional "mist," "fog," or...
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Updates on Huntsman & Science, GOP & Filibuster
Yesterday I mentioned that Jon Huntsman seemed to be recklessly giving away his main strategic advantage in this year's campaign and in his long-term attractiveness as a national figure: his "call me...
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Now It's the Administration's Turn to Be Anti-Science
Jon Huntsman has been taking flak for apparent wavering from the "I'll listen to scientists about science" stance involving climate change. (Understanding whether climate change is happening, as the...
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Placeholder: AF 447, Alec Baldwin, Filibuster, Civil War, Beer, Armageddon, Etc
I am busy juggling quaintly "non-online" deadlines and obligations -- long and overdue magazine article, edits for a book. Here is a list of topics that many people have (graciously) written about, at...
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A Fascinating Chinese View of the Occupy Movement
For an essay that says interesting things about America, and even more interesting ones about China, please check out a new dispatch at China Geeks. It is a translation, by Alec Ash, of a Chinese essay...
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Readers Dissent About HHS and Plan B
(See UPDATE at the end.) Let me try to work through some items today, naturally in LIFO order. Here are some sample notes disagreeing with my argument that the Obama Administration had swung to the...
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Career Aptitude Test: Do You Have What It Takes to Be a Journalist?
You already know about the prestige and career security that await you if you get into the exciting growth field of journalism! But is this the right match for you? Here's a way to find out. Although I...
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