Sunday morning roundup

India's Freedom of Information law only goes so far before activists get killed. The law itself, however, squares pretty well with William J. Dobson's Dictatorship for Dummies advice.

It is horrifying and hard to believe that a rider was attacked at L'Enfant on a Sunday evening. He's right: why didn't anyone do anything?

Also, here's a discussion about yielding seats to those who need them. There was another letter in the print edition--a man who was on crutches wrote that women unfailingly yielded their seats, but men never did.

I'm going to take this opportunity to again complain about metro etiquette. You know that I hate missing my train, especially when there's a long wait for another one, but there are some situations where missing the train is worth it. One of those situations: when the alternative is knocking down a blind or mobility-impaired passenger. Yes, I know it's the same wait, but there is a difference between missing a train because some idiot is standing to the left on an escalator, or stops once he or she gets to the bottom, without getting out of the way, and missing a train because a fellow passenger is inherently slow-moving and needs space to get around. So please, fellow passengers, stop tripping those people.

The Post's departing ombudsman--agreeing that the paper's journalistic quality has gone down hill--writes that it may yet restore its tradition of excellence.

Job interviewees want to be noticed, but not for this kind of thing.

Be wary of farmwashing and humanewashing. On that note, most Americans also fall prey to wholegrainwashing.

What's so modern about Modern Family?