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She's Zofia Smardz, deputy travel editor of the Washington Post, whosearticle on indifferent meals in Paris was featured in Sunday's Seattle Times. He's Michael Steinberger, wine columnist for Slate, whose recent book, Au Revoir to All That, argues that French gastronomy is in fatal decline. Between them, you'd think France was knee-deep in crummy croissants and plastic cheese.

Twitterer columbiacity brought this parkour YouTube video--shot one-handed in and around Seattle--to our attention, and we say thanks. It's an amazing amount of fun to watch this guy go. And Slate claims no one wants to advertise on YouTube's user-generated content. We just want more of this, less baby vomit.

Last August, we wrote this postscript to a post about the Kindle's holiday sales prospects: "I didn't want to write a separate post, but if I were doing marketing at a newspaper, I'd start figuring out if bundling a 2-year subscription and a bulk Kindle buy would knock down the price enough to horn in on some of this Xmas shopping action. Not only would the newspaper subscriber get a Kindle, but it would actually come with something to read every day."

[UPDATE: This post has been edited to reflect corrections made by David Dobbs to his original post, which we quoted below.]

Daniel Gross at Slate has a theory: "The higher the concentration of expensive, nautically themed, faux-Italian-branded Frappuccino joints in a country's financial capital, the more likely the country is to have suffered catastrophic financial losses." Australia, the UK, and South Korea embraced Starbucks and are now facing financial crises. Egypt, Brazil, and Italy have few if any Starbucks outlets, and their banks are doing relatively well. (Trivia fact gleaned from Gross' article: There are only 3 Starbucks in Africa, and they're all in Egypt.) Manhattan has over 200 places to buy a venti cappuccino, and we all know how that town's major industry has been doing. And Gross does not have noticed, but we did: Can it be coincidence that WaMu, the Fortune 500 financial institution based in Starbucks' home town, has been wiped away like a foam mustache? We think not.

As Slate will sometimes publish a book review or commentary by Armond White or Stanley Crouch, one gathers that toothlessness in a writer isn't always a condition of employment. How then to account for the uniform awfulness of Slate's film section since Edelstein's departure? How then to account for the myopically prejudicial "old boys' club" atmosphere that deems who will and who won't have "room" in an online publication that's updated daily? (And is losing money anyway.)