March 2011
To the American defenders, he is a rumor, at once everywhere and nowhere, a thing bouncing between them without origin or destination. He is gossip, insinuation, a wisp of spreading outrage. Four men converge on the spot he just stood. Another collides with him, hard, but Messi rolls away unhurt. Again. Again. He is a pinball, a whippet, a ricochet. He is knocked to the turf. Lies motionless....
At first I thought it was some kind of memorial....
A control tower supervisor at Reagan National Airport has been suspended while the Federal Aviation Administration investigates why he wasn’t available to aid two planes that landed at the airport earlier early Wednesday.
FAA administrator Randy Babbitt said in a statement that the controller has been suspended from his operational duties. Babbitt said he was “personally outraged” that the...
“America has always done better in the role of the reluctant imperialist. The...”
– Obama’s Libya War Challenge, Fareed Zakaria
“Twitter is growing like crazy—I’ve heard that half a million new users sign up...”
– Susan Orlean
“Smith’s comments about UAB reminded me of what happens to … well, me...”
– Gary Parrish
Yep. Pretty much.
“Mr. Stanley was previously a ballet dancer and a member of the United States Air...”
– Owsley Stanley, Artisan of Acid, Is Dead at 76
Greatest obituary ever.
So, this was cool →
This morning, I was invited to the WBEZ studios to talk with Eight Forty Eight host Alison Cuddy about the NCAA tournament. Being a bit of a public radio nerd, this was a rather exciting way to start the week.
True story: Being on public radio makes your voice sound at least 30 percent more muted. Which, given my nasally pipes, is not at all a bad thing.
“Yu Jianrong, a leading sociologist at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences,...”
– Chinese Authorities Keep Unrest at Bay