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...Thai football has lost its way, so has the country. Within weeks of Reid's arrival, two people were killed and hundreds injured in antigovernment riots in Bangkok. Protesters occupied the offices of beleaguered Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat, and then, on Nov. 25, stormed the capital's airport. Tourists and investors are fleeing the country, the stock market is tanking. The famous Thai smile is fading fast. A Bangkok pollster calculated that the nation's "Gross Domestic Happiness Index" measured a mere 4.84 out of 10, the lowest for almost three years. Cheer up, Peter Reid? He's probably...
...always laughing with, rather than at, the artist. On the collaboration with Chris Rock, “Everybody Hates Chris,” Rock shoots off a routine satirizing Ludacris as “the only rapper that doesn’t bring a gun to the airport.” The rapper sings the rousing, repetitive chorus of “Fuck you, Luda,” which is more than enough to demonstrate Ludacris can still poke fun at himself. Luda’s most brilliant moments are those metaphors that make you laugh out loud with their...
...fully (if they need be brought up at all) are tossed in only for the flickers of recognition they draw from the audience. In one scene, the villain warns with a sinister sneer that the bracelet Martin wears is full of the same liquid explosives that caused the 2006 airport scare in the UK. If Martin strays too far from his car, the liquids will automatically mix and blow him up. Similarly, when hacking into computer systems, Martin’s friend extraneously quips, “You want to see the invasion plans for Iran...
What really ticks us off is not that the Detroit Three flew private on a begging mission. It's that we have to fly commercial, and they don't. Anyone who has spent time seething at an airport hub, squished into a middle seat of a 737, or paid $2 for a bottle of water and some attitude has nothing but venom for those who can avoid it. The corporate fleet has mushroomed over the years as commercial service has deteriorated. Going from Grand Rapids, Mich. to Jackson, Miss.? That will only involve an entire day shoehorned into "regional" jets...
...best thing about flying corporate isn't the comfy seats or the jumbo shrimp, or even the ego massage. The best thing about a corporate jet is that it's not a commercial-airline jet. The best thing is avoiding long airport-security lines and having to simultaneously untie your shoes, take off your coat, get a laptop out of a carefully packed bag and walk at the same time; it's avoiding the crummy, overpriced airport food, the packed planes, the overstuffed overhead bins and the frazzled, overworked crews. And being No. 175 for takeoff. When you fly corporate...