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Ah, yes, the joys of being in the news business. One minute I’m planning a leisurely cookout yesterday evening for a friend in the Army stationed overseas who’s on leave and (happily) stuck stateside because of all the ash. The next, I’m packing my little roller-bag headed for (way too) sunny downtown Phoenix, where I’ll [...]

You may have heard about the air-traffic controller at JFK who let his kid step up to the microphone and start directing planes last month. And you can’t quite hate the FAA for coming down like a ton of aircraft parts on the guy. It’s bad enough up there, where the flights are arriving and [...]

Here’s a post I’m doing just because I can, dammit, from seat 18D on United Flight 852 from SFO to JFK. I have a great deal of ambivalence about wireless Internet entering the cabin. Mainly because I know how annoying and annoyed I can be in the presence of the Interwebs. Sure enough, the first [...]

Thanks to the giant vanilla Slurpee that landed on New York this weekend, my flight out of St. Louis was canceled and I have another day in rural Missouri, on a hilltop above the Dickey Bub Farm and Home emporium. I’d like to thank Continental Airlines, by the way, for being an industry leader in delaying [...]