News of the day
Another article on reaction to the backscatter machines and enhanced pat-downs.
On the same topic, Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight on the potential costs -- fiscal and otherwise -- of reduced flying. "Other passengers may substitute car travel for air travel. But this too has its consequences, since car travel is much more dangerous than air travel over all. According to the Cornell study, roughly 130 inconvenienced travelers died every three months as a result of additional traffic fatalities brought on by substituting ground transit for air transit. That's the equivalent of four fully-loaded Boeing 737s crashing each year."
A look at how those defeated in the US midterm elections are taking it. "For those Democrats who served only one term, their entire tenure was a mad rush of seemingly politically toxic votes, ending in nearly instant repudiation. Still, who would trade it? 'I wouldn’t take anything for it,' said Representative Dina Titus, Democrat of Nevada, her eyes rimmed red, as she left the House floor the other night. Clutching a pair of high heels, Ms. Titus walked in her stocking feet into the members-only elevator, and the door slid quietly behind her."
Speaking of taking defeat gracefully -- or not -- Miller has asked for an injunction against the certification of the Alaska Senate race.
Headline of the day: Naked Irish Sleepwalker Wins Libel Suit. The background: on a business trip, man shows up naked at female colleague's door -- three times. Company fires him and tells the world why. Man claims to be sleepwalking. Man wins $14 million in damages from company.
On the same topic, Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight on the potential costs -- fiscal and otherwise -- of reduced flying. "Other passengers may substitute car travel for air travel. But this too has its consequences, since car travel is much more dangerous than air travel over all. According to the Cornell study, roughly 130 inconvenienced travelers died every three months as a result of additional traffic fatalities brought on by substituting ground transit for air transit. That's the equivalent of four fully-loaded Boeing 737s crashing each year."
A look at how those defeated in the US midterm elections are taking it. "For those Democrats who served only one term, their entire tenure was a mad rush of seemingly politically toxic votes, ending in nearly instant repudiation. Still, who would trade it? 'I wouldn’t take anything for it,' said Representative Dina Titus, Democrat of Nevada, her eyes rimmed red, as she left the House floor the other night. Clutching a pair of high heels, Ms. Titus walked in her stocking feet into the members-only elevator, and the door slid quietly behind her."
Speaking of taking defeat gracefully -- or not -- Miller has asked for an injunction against the certification of the Alaska Senate race.
Headline of the day: Naked Irish Sleepwalker Wins Libel Suit. The background: on a business trip, man shows up naked at female colleague's door -- three times. Company fires him and tells the world why. Man claims to be sleepwalking. Man wins $14 million in damages from company.