In the Boston Globe this past weekend, I wrote about the tightening of air-security rules and other unpleasant restrictions in advance of the Olympics here--and how China's security-above-all approach echoes the American experience over the past seven years. I am very happy with the accompanying Robert Grossman illustration, particularly the sagging pants on the dog.
Today's New York Times, meanwhile, has a piece about the effects of the irritating new visa regulations. The Kerry Center hotel is only 63 percent full at the moment, David Barboza reports.
And the Great Firewall is getting ever more stifling. Wikipedia is still unblocked, for now, but when it goes away again, I'm not sure what I'll do: a week or so ago, the Internet authorities finally blocked Anonymouse, my usual workaround for blocked sites; then, a few days after I'd switched to proxychina, they blocked that, too. Not that there is any such thing as the Great Firewall.
