LETTER FROM
THE EDITOR
says Nancy Rothstein, a sleep
consultant who has worked for
Hyatt. “You can get the best bed
in the world, but if you don’t
provide people with additional
resources, they’re not necessarily going to get good sleep.”
Elsewhere in the issue, Bill
Maher advises conservatives to
come to California if they want
to see real American exceptionalism in practice. He argues that the
“failed” California, which pundits
were eulogizing not too long ago,
was ushered out when the state
elected Jerry Brown as its governor.
“We are moving the country’s
largest economy into a place
where we can all be health-insured, clean air-breathin’, gaymarried, immigrant-friendly
citizens who don’t get shot all
the time,” Bill writes. “California
has been setting the trends in
America for decades, from Silicon Valley to silicone tits, and
it’s not going to stop now.”
In our Voices section, Joanna
Zelman opens up about a feeling
that is rarely owned up to in postcards: the loneliness of traveling.
“Are you tired? No, you just
finished your second café latte...
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You’re not hungry and you’ve been
walking in the shade,” Joanna
writes. “Could you be — no, you
won’t even let the word slip into
your frontal lobe, because once
it has, like a couchsurfing friend,
People carry their sleep
issues to the hotels they
stay in. You can get the best
bed in the world, but if you
don’t provide people with
additional resources, they’re
not necessarily going to get
good sleep.”
there’s no way to know when it
will leave. Too late... It is here,
deep in your belly, that Loneliness
has set up shop.”
Finally, as part of our continuing focus on the Third Metric, we
take a look at America’s first inpatient treatment center for one
of society’s newest and potentially
most debilitating ailments: Internet addiction.
ARIANNA