Clik here to view.
Today's TSA News: Rand Paul Edition
(See update below) As the Atlantic Wire and others have reported, Sen. Rand Paul ran afoul of the TSA on his way from Nashville back to Washington to speak at the mammoth March for Life gathering...
View ArticleClik here to view.
'Do I Have to Tell You?' User Polling by the TSA
A reader writes about his recent experience in a screening line at the San Francisco airport: In response to yesterday's blog post containing a reader's and Senator Rand Paul's accounts of recent...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Interlude: Inland Empire Beer/Business Report
I have been off the grid for several days and will be for a while more, as obligations of different sorts pile up all at the same time. As a placeholder, and instead of anything about tonight's...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Next Movie I Want to See: 'Red Tails'
All right, I know that the reviews have been so-so at best. But for the reasons Lane Wallace has laid out very well on our site, the debut of the movie is in itself an event worth noting and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Cost of Security Hassle (and of Cruddy Infrastructure)
Often I forget to mention items appearing on Patrick Smith's Ask the Pilot site, probably because I've assumed that people interested in airlines, airplanes, airports, and aviation security will...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Aviators on What's Right About 'Red Tails'
I still haven't seen Red Tails, and the head-to-head conflict this evening is not just the latest GOP slugfest in Florida but also (if you're in DC) a live book event at Politics & Prose with my...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Cultural Advice: Go See 'Chinglish'
There's not much time left in the Broadway run of David Henry Hwang's Chinglish. I understand that a West Coast tour will happen later this year, followed perhaps by a movie. Whenever and wherever you...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Video of 'Irate' Rand Paul vs. TSA
If you haven't seen it already, it is worth checking out this minute-long clip from the Nashville Tennessean, showing Sen. Rand Paul during part of the hour-plus period he was in a TSA cubicle in...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Annotated State of the Union Speech
Mouse over the underlined passages to view annotations.Overall this was an impressive and surprising speech, which accomplished the main goal of a "Year Four" State of the Union Address in a different...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Reader's Guide to the State of the Union Address
The item immediately below this one, on our site, is the full 7000+ word official text of President Obama's latest State of the Union address, with a generous amount of marginalia from me. The first...
View ArticleClik here to view.
More Friendly TSA Tales -- Plus, Is It Possible Ever to Change?
These are in five distinct modes. After this I will taper off for a while. Plus, there's another debate to watch!Theme one: making the best of things.As someone that enjoys a drink as much or more than...
View ArticleClik here to view.
If Logic Mattered in These GOP Debates...
... Rick Santorum would have been declared the knockout winner over Mitt Romney tonight, for backing him into making a plainer, simpler case for the "individual mandate" in health coverage than Barack...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Why Obama Mentioned His Beaten Foe Hillary Clinton in the SOTU: A Theory
In my mark-up of this latest State of the Union address, I mention that it seemed odd and uncalled-for, on the president's part, to refer to the current Secretary of State as someone who had run...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Coming Soon in This Space: The Encouraging Push-Back to Bomb-Iran Plans
The post I'm storing up for tomorrow, when I'm no longer in meeting rooms or at airports or on airplanes, will be about Iran. In specific, why we should be encouraged by the emerging push-back to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Kaplan on Mearsheimer on China: From Our Current Issue
Frequently as I exhort readers to "Subscribe!" to our print edition, that being the center of our evolving print/online/"live" business and the heart of our journalism, I really should be talking up...
View ArticleClik here to view.
World Is Getting Better, IPA Dept
As previously noted, Sierra Nevada has won my heart by making Torpedo one of its "regular" beers, available year-round. (Of course, when I was living in China, I was thrilled to find a single "normal"...
View ArticleClik here to view.
On Superhuman Pilots and Emergency Landings
Today's Atlantic Wire has a fascinating item about a pilot-and-flight-instructor duo who landed their small plane safely, in Mexico, after its propeller broke off (right). The original YouTube video,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
If Dickens Came Back to America, He Would Note Today's WSJ
Front page of today's Wall Street Journal, similar to front page of all other papers: Detail from the highlighted box:Front page of WSJ's "Marketplace" section today:Detail from the lead of the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
World is Getting Better, GBA Dept
President Obama's speech this morning at the National Prayer Breakfast actually deserves study as an instance of turning religious themes and imagery to the service of his larger policy message. We...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Black Cheese, Green Meat, and Beer in a Can
From high school I recall some amateur-psychology experiment about the power of sensory incongruities. If you were offered a piece of cheese that was colored black, or a slice of meat that was green,...
View Article