There aren’t really a lot of nice things about flying. It’s scary, germy, full of delays. They don’t clean the planes as they once did—the tray is not clean and as you open it and see the coke and coffee marks, you wonder if it was used on the last flight by a Senegalese tourist with typhus.

Peggy Noonan in the Wall Street Journal.

“Going to Africa. Hope I don’t get AIDS. Just kidding. I’m white!”

IAC publicist Justine Sacco, writing on Twitter.

Guess which person instantly became the subject of universal outrage and lost her job…and which person is a columnist at the Wall Street Journal.