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...quarter of us lapse within a week, the vast majority before the year is out. Since human frailty is a law of nature, states are compensating with some rules of their own--what are laws if not expectations carved in stone? As of the New Year, you can no longer text-message while driving in Washington State. North Carolina bar owners have to recycle their bottles, and politicians have to tell the truth: all candidates will be asked if they've ever been convicted of a felony, and lying when they answer would count as one. Airlines have resolved...
...smokers, willpower now carries a badge: you can no longer light up in a car with a minor in it in California, or in most public places in Illinois. The most draconian measures have come in France, where it seemed cafés once had two smoking sections: one for smokers, one for heavy smokers. With a ban now in place, Paris authorities are handing out 10,000 "pocket ashtrays" to keep the streets from looking like gerbil cages...
...France and more and more a savage reflection of the state of American culture itself. This article speaks truly of America and of what will happen to it on that day when the increasing power of Spanish, Chinese or perhaps other Asian languages ensure that Anglo-American will no longer be the language of the formula and of universal translation. France as metaphor for America. Anti-French hostility as a displaced form of panic which dare not speak its name. Classic. Bernard-Henri Lévy, IN THE GUARDIAN...
...Indonesia prepared to send its athletes to the Southeast Asian Games in Thailand last month, a mock government Cabinet on satirical TV show Dreaming Republic discussed why the nation was no longer the regional sporting powerhouse it was during the 1980s and '90s. Actors impersonating leaders past and present blamed the 1997 financial crisis, before appealing to the live audience and viewers at home for more funding to help prepare Indonesian athletes. One of the show's most popular characters, impersonating former President Suharto, had a simpler solution: "Just return me to power...
...Huckabee's message or Saltsman's strategy will be enough to pull off an upset victory caucus night - not the political reporters, not the consultants and not the pollsters, who keep releasing data that cumulatively shows a dead heat. And the truth be told, even Saltsman, the architect, no longer has much control over the outcome at Thursday night's caucuses. Most of the pieces have already been played. So he grows his beard, fingers his pinky ring, and barely sleeps. "On Friday," he calls out, "you can write that either I am a genius, or an idiot...