escalator

It’s like comparing a roller coaster to an escalator.

On a visit to the Chicago store, Virginia Lee, a food-industry market researcher, watched customers descend the Whole Foods escalator, grabbing a Red Bull at Amazon Grocery on their way out.

It corrupts the legal process, corrodes public faith in civic institutions, and invites further leaps up the partisan warfare escalator.

But, as the UN made clear, the escalator suddenly stopped after a White House videographer accidentally triggered a safety mechanism.

Here’s where I imagine Norway leaning over and whispering to Oman, “At least our escalators work.”