With tears, with blushes, sighs and clasped hands, / With innocent upreared arms to heaven, […]

Alas, I fear, Netflix will soon break my heart. And it's an American icon that is warning me: American Airlines (AA). ¶ You see, middlemen are dying. Sabre, the former AA subsidiary that is now an independent global distribution system (GDS) supplying travel agencies and online travel agencies with ticket and pricing information, recently announced it was raising the rates it charges on AA tickets.

If parents try to trim a 7-year-old egoist down to size with sarcastic quips or disparaging comments, they only add to his sense of inferiority and thereby agitate his continued construction of a defensive front.

A mass of hands passed me around like an inflatable human, and I never stopped enjoying the craziness. At one gig, the energy was so crazy that the Peas turned into leaping lemmings after me. Apl stage-dived. Then Will.