We are forces of chaos and anarchy Everything they say we are, we are And we are very proud of ourselves Up against the wall Up against the wall, motherfucker Tear down the the wall… - Jefferson Airplane, “We Can Be Together”  Over the past year I’ve received not one, but two object lessons...
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O.K., somebody needs to explain this to me. I fly a bunch for my work, enough that I now get automatic upgrades to first class if there are empty seats. When you’ve spent as much time as I have shoehorned into eight-tenths-scale “regional jets” or behind fully reclined neanderthals in coach, it’s a welcome - if rare...
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I’m in Canada this week. It’s my fourth visit in recent years, and by the end of my second day in the country, a familiar question all but smothered me. Even after allowing for the “change” factor – that sense of excitement just at being in a foreign land – the question lingered, the...
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