Democracy and Debauchery
Posted on December 6, 2007 - Filed Under Audio, Culture, Misc., News, Travel Biz | Leave a Comment
Oh, we Americans are a wild and crazy bunch: toiling hard and productively, spreading democracy by day…partying hard by night. Or is it partying day and night? According to a new report on travel trends, we Yanks are binge drinking, G-string snapping “debaucherists,” longing for the eternal spring break.
This report, put out by the [...]
The Debaucherists [2:02m]: Belgium: What Would Poirot Do?
Posted on September 21, 2007 - Filed Under Audio, Belgium, News | Leave a Comment
It looks like a case for Hercule Poirot. The Economist wants to kill off Belgium. What is the motive, what will be the instrument of death? In an editorial this week, that venerable bastion of common sense in a world of cable news banshees suggests that Belgium should be allowed to just wither away. Not [...]
Read More..>>Where’s The Kibbles: Why We Rate Cat Food Over Air Travel
Posted on May 24, 2007 - Filed Under Video, Airlines, News | Leave a Comment
Cats, as you are well aware, know more than we do. I asked both of our cats, Max and Moritz, about that and they responded with their inscrutable “I don’t suffer fools” look. Every time I travel, Max plants himself inside of my open suitcase marking my black sweaters with tufts of fuzz while Moritz [...]
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Where's The Kibbles: Why We Rate Cat Food Over Air Travel [4:01m]: 2007:A Baggage Odyssey
Posted on February 9, 2007 - Filed Under Airlines, Audio, News, Travel Biz | Leave a Comment
It is one of the best uses of music in a movie ever. In Stanley Kubrik’s classic “2001: A Space Odyssey, a bunch of crunky old rocket ships drift around space waltzing to the Blue Danube. Why does that make me think of airline baggage: “Look, there’s a flaming chunk of Samsonite reentering the atmosphere… [...]
Read More..>>Airline Math: Jet Blue Increases Leg Room
Posted on December 19, 2006 - Filed Under Airlines, Audio, News, Travel Biz | Leave a Comment
“There are things we know that we don’t know.â€
Donald Rumsfeld
I have always thought airline math was as twisted as political rhetoric. As someone who was forced at quill-point to study the value and foibles of statistics and who for many years lived down the rabbit hole of the broadcasting business (a little too close to [...]
