Posted February 28th, 2009 by Alan Davidson
Ireland’s low-cost carrier considers pay-to-use toilets, CEO
admits
DUBLIN - When nature calls at 30,000 feet, is $1.40 a wee price to pay? Or could it force passengers without correct change into a whole new kind of holding pattern?
The head of budget European airline Ryanair unleashed a flood of indignation and potty humor Friday when he [...]
Posted February 27th, 2009 by Alan Davidson
By ROY BLOUNT Jr.
BEING president of too many well-meaning organizations put my father into an early grave. The lesson in this was not lost on me. But now I am president of the Authors Guild, whose mission is to sustain book-writing as a viable occupation. This borders on quixotic, given all the new [...]
Posted February 26th, 2009 by Alan Davidson
Interview by Alan Davidson for OutSmart Magazine
One night in India the six years old, Andrew Harvey learned that God could appear anywhere, anytime. The family cook taught him. His parents were out for the evening so he took his dinner on the balcony. Afterwards, the kindly cook sat on the ground beside him and beat [...]
Posted February 25th, 2009 by Alan Davidson
By WALTER KIRN
SNARK
Polemic in Seven Fits
By David Denby
128 pp. Simon & Schuster. $15.95
In “Snark,” an earnest book-length essay of neo-Victorian public-mindedness that deplores the “nasty, knowing abuse” that the author would have us fear contaminates too much American humor lately, David Denby, a movie critic for The New Yorker, sets for himself what has [...]
Posted February 24th, 2009 by Alan Davidson
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.
Where there is hatred . . . let me sow love
Where there is injury . . . pardon
Where there is doubt . . . faith
Where there is despair . . .hope
Where there is darkness . . . light
Where there is sadness . [...]
