After a long period of fitful travel, hotels with bad internet connections, and a small snowstorm, it was a pleasure to once again be able to read news and comment.

There isn’t much to be done about the bad hotels; this is just a fact of life in corporate America, where it is more profitable to offer one wifi router in a building, rather than a series of repeaters. Likewise, wiring up a hotel for more secure and reliable LAN connections. Dorothy was right when she said there’s no place like home. Chef Jay Hicks also got it right in Apocalypse Now when he said “Never get out of the fucking boat.” Words to live by. On a different note, Atlantic City casinos are much like those in other places: cold, over-lit soulless places dedicated to the proposition that anyone can be made to smile as he hands over his money to someone else.

Rather like our Republican Party, in fact.

On a more positive note, they promised to send me a photo of the bronze plaque memorializing my visit just as soon as it’s installed on the wall.