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...Idol for popularizing karaoke in America. What was once a dreaded barroom activity is now almost hip. But we had talent search shows before American Idol and they didn't help karaoke. What about Star Search? The thing with Star Search is that the people always seemed to be sort of creepy. There were a couple other shows in the '80s with ridiculous names and they sort of seemed all the same: a lot of creepily stage-managed kids and then a lot of people who are just trying so hard that they're pandering. There was always some...
...just be me and a couple friends and we'd sing 20 songs each, so that would add up over time. But yeah, it's got to be at least 1,500. And certainly 100 of those would be "Sister Christian" by Night Ranger, which is the song we sort of did to death...
When methadone was first proposed for the treatment of heroin addiction, it sounded like a pointless gambit - sort of like substituting vodka for gin. That's enabling addicts, critics said, not helping them...
...similar sort of re-framing that led the American fiasco in Vietnam to occur. The hardliners in the foreign policy apparatus in the late years of the 50s refused to see the fight in Vietnam as one of local politics, denied the overriding issues of nationalism and dressed it up as a Communist bogeyman for the American public and the world. Communism turned out not to be a monolith, just as Islam isn’t, but a force shaped by local history and regional circumstances. The results of this were disastrous. This sort of logic, that simplifies, reduces...
...Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson viewed the economic relationship between the U.S. and China as his biggest challenge - and his biggest opportunity. He would sit down twice a year with his Chinese counterparts and discuss big-picture issues. These weren't negotiations. They were part of a "strategic economic dialogue" - "sort of like the G2," as a former Treasury official puts it. They were a way to flatter China, the world's rising economic power, and to enlist its cooperation on big, global issues like increasing the use of renewable energy and protecting the environment. And if, along the way, Beijing...