September 2008
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Son of a box!
I think the thing I like most about the terrible movies they show on airplanes is when they overdub offensive words. It’s totally inconsistent: sometimes they substitute a milder version of the same word, even if it doesn’t match the lips; other times they put in a word that matches the lips, even if it […]
The Gipper
Last night, during the RNC, there was a video tribute to Ronald Reagan. Not once, but twice the voiceover intoned, “President Ronald Reagan never forgot who he was.”
Airport Security Blows
I only fly a few times a year. So a recent visit to Newark Airport was my first encounter with the Smiths Detection Sentinel II. In Googling the machine later, I learned that it is able to analyze microscopic particles off of people for traces of explosives or narcotics. At the time, though, all I […]
Jack Silbert, curator