Pain, Agony, Despair: Flying With Children - New York Times

Although I read him regularly and find him interesting, I rarely agree with David Brooks. That said, he fairly walloped the nail on noggin in this article about flying with small children. I dedicate this to my 6 months pregnant wife who will be traveling to the East Coast with a 3 year old and an 18 month old, tomorrow. I also dedicate it to my brother-in-law, (who agrees with most of the things Mr. Brooks has to say, we like each other despite this), who is flying with her, so as to spread the pain around a little.

Pain, Agony, Despair: Flying With Children - New York Times

Flying with Kids

Bad Dye

Here in the San Fancisco Bay Area, the powers that be have finally agreed on how to fix the BayBridge , which spans the bay from San Francisco to Oakland. It has long needed retrofitting, particularly before another major earthquake sends it tumbling into the bay. They bay has two spans, the first from San Francisco to Yerba Buena Island, the second stretches from Yerba Buena Island to Oakland. It was decided a few years back to rebuild the second span. This immediately became a comedy of error, idiocy and corruption. Last year, Governor Arnold put the kibosh on the whole sordid affair deciding that a new design was needed due to cost overruns etc. Anyhow, they finally agreed to a plan of action and building has resumed. That’s not what I want to comment on, however, as a result of this decision, there was big picture of Arnolds mug on the front of today's San Francisco Chronicle. On this I do have things to say. Why, why, why does he have such a bad dye job? He's not short of a few bob. For that matter himself, Bono and Paul McCartney should be summoned before the fashion court and arraigned on charges of parading in public with awful colored hair. At least the other two are rock stars, and all the attendant fashion “experiments” that go with the job, but he's the fucking Governor of California. He should seek out Ronald Reagan’s hair stylist, his dye jobs were at least somewhat realistic nice and dark unlike Arnolds vaguely orange hair.

Attack on London: the dead and the missing

Like everyone else I was horrified by the London Bombings. I used to live within stones throw of the Edgware Road tube station, over The Green Man pub, a long time ago in 1987. The link below has some pictures and names of the missing and the dead. Instead of numbers and statistics, it shows the vicitms as real people.

Attack on London: the dead and the missing


This is the only appropriate response.