The International airport in Mumbai (shivaji?) is pretty crap all around, mostly due to overcrowding. It was also the only place I have ever seen real (non-antique and mass produced) Jolly N****r coin banks... I just wandered past a trinket stand and my jaw rattled on the floor of its own accord...

Aswan airport, I actually liked.... because it is barely there.

But speaking of unneeded new airports and Sahel airports... Sudan of all places is building a new one... besides Congo or Mozambique, I can't think of any place LESS in need of an airport given all the horrid goings-ons.

Was from Fishtown/Kensington/Port Richmond area.

The first thing I do every day when I open up Broadsheet, is to hit ctrl-f and search for the word 'creepy'.... It is there everyday -- not a day passes.... Now guess who the number one source is.

"If her experience in national security and foreign policy were as shallow as advertised back then, after all, on what basis could he offer her the position of top diplomat?"

If you are a police officer, and you pull over a car, and a 10 year old is driving... said child must be legal to drive or he wouldn't be driving.... If I am in the cockpit, I must be the pilot?

You are conflating all opposition to Clinton into one straw-baugh-man. I don't like her because I think she is one hair short of Lieberman, and her fiery jingoistic rhetoric reflects a worldview I have not appreciated for the last 8 years. This has nothing to do with Bill; by any analysis of announced positions she is well to the right of the previous president on the matters significant to the position for which she will hold.

Much as I don't care about Michelle Obama's badunkadunk, or what fack school they put those girls into, I don't care about what Bill Clinton does anymore unless he serves as an envoy, official or unofficial, of the US. I had preferred Richardson on grounds of personal experience and record on relevant issues (admittedly he did not have to suffer the task of voting in house or senate).

On Richardson's southgating to Commerce(where he should exceed), one thing can be said: unlike the previous president, clearly Obama has no intent to absolutely reward loyalists.

Well, the Emirates, particularly Dubai, have made it clear that they intend to parlay this oil wealth into a more diversified economic development plan. The Dubai International Financial Center (www.difc.ae) being just one of several initiatives, and the creation of a modern(-like) public transportation system evidences the intent (if not success) to create a sustained international hub for business and industry.

Whether this intent extends to other oil-producing nations, Qatar excepted as another such nation, though, might be debated.

There are real reasons that clear access employees should not be tinkering around on Facebook. For one, the use of facebook is at best a communication tool that could be deployed and used by off-site/out-of-network employees. This is scarcely inconcieveable. Rahm Emmanuel does not need to be chatting with john king.

The real reason they ought not - and why it was so irresponsible for Cheney to have been using gmail - is that it is not secure. One might find oneself opening connections to a third party company. Is any one suggesting that the White House entrust their security to a third party company, even one or merit with developed security. Sarah Palin learned right quick how easy it can be to hack into such accounts.

The security issues are to great to just assume you can carry on in such a matter. I daresay while there are real troubles here if one is discussing a massive upgrade, there is no real excuse for an inability to update the web site - well, except a lack of technological savvy in the employee ranks (not too much).

I hate to point it out but articles like this sort of identify the age of some of the Salon staff. While there are indubitably young people at Salon, I can't help feeling as a @30-ish citizen that most of my peer group of any race would look at me like I am crazy or ignorant to be positing topics like this. Unlike those 10+ years older than I, I do notice that most of my peer group of any race, even those coming for relatively homogeneous backgrounds, have at one point of more engaged in relationships or at least close friendships across the so-called racial divide. It seems less so on the West coast but nonetheless far from uncommon.

While Ms Kaplan (Ms Aubrey Kaplan) may indeed be black, by putting this here, it just feels like Salon is asking black folks if they mind if Salon touches their hair.

"What's new here is that this piece resonates with an audience which is typically inconspicuous - Black women. I am thoroughly enjoying this moment - when thousands of non-Black people are getting a little taste of what its like to be invisible." -

I get what your saying although I don;t think that is how anyone feels - at least not any reasonably sane person.

Rather, I think the point is: why is a successful, intelligent woman constantly be subject to evaluations about her body. It all rather seems inherently un-feminist. Then again I have never been one for gossip rags...