Superbad

Just when I thought people couldn't make me happier today, a note from Prof Riles, Prof of all Profs, Adviser of all Advisers, who misses "ordinary weather problems" like the New England cold, prompted me to look for news on the weather in Beijing. This is what I found:

BEIJING (AP) — Pollution in Beijing was so bad Friday the U.S. Embassy, which has been independently monitoring air quality, ran out of conventional adjectives to describe it, at one point saying it was "crazy bad."

The embassy later deleted the phrase, saying it was an "incorrect" description and it would revise the language to use when the air quality index goes above 500, its highest point and a level considered hazardous for all people by U.S. standards.