A scary sentence.

There is also a 53 km (33 mi) long Pyongyang Tram and 150 km (93 mi) trolleybus service, but tourists have heard that few locals use them due to the high and frequent hazard of electrocution.

Something fascinating.

Sometimes I browse foreign media with nothing but google translate to help me. This is choppy but fascinating.

Something reasonable.

There are a lot cnidarian* defenses of Roman Polanski being put forth today by some of the most detestable people I have encountered on the internet in days.


This, however, strikes me as a reasonable and important point. At the end of all this, Roman Polanski may walk out of a Los Angeles court room as a free man. That might be the correct decision based on the way the case was handled. It is in the laws interest, though, that Mr. Polanski see the inside of a court room again, whatever the final verdict.

*I sort of like that word.

This article embodies all conservative stereotypes about the liberal media.

It is official.

"In the coming weeks, the Polanski affair will no doubt become a tabloid sensation, with op-ed moralists, excitable bloggers* and the Glenn Becks of the world noisily weighing in on the propriety of his possible prosecution."

Only people on the level of Glenn Beck find child rape and fleeing the country to be actions deserving of legal consequences.

*Hi! I am an excitable blogger.

Come on, NYT.

Someone is being a lazy editor today. The headline for this piece makes no sense, since 12:40 AM is not, in any way, prime time.

The best sentence I have read today.

"Only a handful of literary novelists born since World War II have published a book that reached the top of the Times list, and two of those best sellers were the result of cult leaders’ shocking public pronouncements — the Ayatollah Khomeini’s 1989 fatwa against Salman Rushdie, and Oprah Winfrey’s 2001 endorsement of Jonathan Franzen."- NY Times

Too vigorous on the F-22

This is a ridiculous sentence by an otherwise quite reasonable author.

"And even if China were building Raptor-level fighters, there’s no reason to assume Beijing has designs on the U.S. interests — unless for some reason you consider the defense of Taiwan a strategic imperative for Washington."

Way too much of a jump there. A U.S. interest and a strategic imperative are fairly different things. Also, why does Beijing need to have designs on U.S. interests today, when the fighter production we are talking about right now would cover the next decade.

I totally agree, though, it is a great thing the F-22 extra funding was voted down by the Senate. I just think Axe overstated his case.