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Washington, Broken Peter Beinart, in "Why Washington's Tied Up in Knots," presents the usual call from the media for evenhanded solutions [March 1]. His ideas for getting both parties to cooperate are tepid. For government to work, it takes good faith and honorable conduct from everyone in society. Beinart seems to have noticed that the Republicans have stepped out of bounds, but he just can't bring himself to call the foul. Peter Rosenthal Charleston...
...19th century Britain, however, after Darwin demonstrated how humans evolved from animals, humane societies formed, vegetarianism and pets became popular, and reports of animal suicide resurfaced. The usual suspect this time was the dog. In 1845 the Illustrated London News reported on a Newfoundland who had repeatedly tried to drown himself: "The animal appeared to get exhausted, and by dint of keeping his head determinedly under water for a few minutes, succeeded at last in obtaining his object, for when taken out this time he was indeed dead." (See the top 10 animal attacks on humans...
...what the Chinese government requires: censor their search results (as Google still does, despite reports in the blogosphere to the contrary). Random searches on all three platforms on March 17 for "Tiananmen Square, 1989," and "Falun Gong" - two hot buttons as far as Beijing is concerned - prompted the usual government-approved pabulum on the subjects. If Microsoft and the others intend to be in China "to stay," as Mundie put it, there is no chance - none - that the censorship issue will change for them going forward...
...pass through Russian airspace en route to Afghanistan. It was a huge relief to American troops, who had been trucking most of their supplies through the death trap of Pakistan's Khyber Pass. Since it was granted without any favors in return, the deal looked like more than the usual horse trading. It was a gesture of goodwill...
...civilian griping has heightened the fraught congressional machinations. As Obama, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and their allies seek the final cache of votes required to clear the next hurdle in the House, they have one hand tied behind them. Business-as-usual eleventh-hour incentives are off limits after the pointed backlash against a spate of clumsy sweetheart deals like the so-called Cornhusker Kickback given to Nebraska Senator Ben Nelson. That's why the reality for the Democratic Party - that they must all hang together on the health care vote or they will surely all be hung separately...