- British airways screws stranded passengers, offering a choice of nearly a month's delay or stratospheric prices for earlier flights.
- The Supreme Court is so old that even its youngest members don't really understand current technology, even though they're expected to make rulings about it.
Cheering
- Clever train doesn't stop at stations -- it picks up and leaves attachable subunits with arriving and departing passengers. Neat idea (see the video), and radically improves travel times.
- Arkansas adoption ban, passed by voters, found unconstitutional. Chip, chip...
(via Alas, a Blog) - The President apparently thinks that people should be able to have their loved ones visit them in the hospital and make their medical decisions. Gotta love a good "crazy socialist" who can put the power of Medicare/Medicaid behind some sane policy!
Interesting
- Rafe notes two ways to break news, only one of which actually leads to informing the public.
- The Civil War can be seen as a battle with three sides, the South, the North, and African-Americans.
What you see, as the war goes on, is a gradual, and rather amazing, process by which blacks, free and enslaved, force the North to accept the cause of emancipation as their own. The logic of the war makes it unavoidable.
A good example of a frame that changes the way you see a wide range of events, in illuminating ways. I recommend the whole thing. - Washington, D.C., has to balance its desire to be a national monument against the benefits of becoming a modern liveable city...
The monumentalist vision of Washington has choked nearly all urban life from the Mall and its environs. It has fashioned large sections of our city into pleasing vistas for tourists but has given the rest of us lifeless wastelands ... The monumental core should be the city's heart, not its parasite
This issue arises in many different contexts, and in other cities as well.
(via Atrios at Eschaton)
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