Monday's Child

1.  Duke's graduation ceremony...if you have two hours to spare.

2.  Beta parents:  Trying hard to be the best at...nothing, really. Just trying to survive and not screw up.  I am clearly a Beta parent.

3.  For REAL inequality, just head south a little bit from Miami. Cuba looks like there was a war there, but there was just communism.

4.  I'm pretty sure that everyone I know who bought these shoes was injured soon after, from moderately to pretty badly.

5.  Don't Bike With Texas!

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How to watch TV in Oklahoma

You're welcome!

Do As We Editorialize, Not As We Do

Why was Jill Abramson fired as Executive Editor from the NYTimes?  (I have to admit, I didn't know that it had happened.  I stopped reading the NYTimes on principle after their remarkable--and never corrected--hatchet job on the Duke lacrosse players...)

The story appears to be that she actually believed that the male "Progressives" who run the NYTimes, the propaganda wing of the Democratic Party, actually believed the stuff they always say about equal pay for women.

Clearly, they do not.  And if some "girl" does try to the pay she deserves, she is "pushy" and gets fired.  Wow.

With a nod to Susan L.

All By My Selfie

From the EYM.  Looking contemplative....

It was great to see him for the YYM's graduation....

Monday's Child

1.  So Nosferatu had it right all along?  A little creepy.  And the ethical implications...how would this work, exactly?

2.  Review of Easterly's new book, Tyranny of Experts.

3.  A bunch of 10 second videos about pretty much nothing in particular.

4.  "Free Mondela" was a good cause.  "Free parking" (yes, free is a verb here) is not so good.

5.  If you don't have standing for something, you'll fall for anything.

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Sunday Morning Sermon: cured meats edition

Say, friend. Have you ever wondered what salad is like in Heaven?

Well wonder no more:

I think this would be a more effective pitch than whatever is raining down from the majority of pulpits this morning.

Cooperation

We have two dogs.  Tanzie is quite bright, skittish, and a little stand-offish with strangers.  Skippy Squirrelbane is sweet, enthusiastic, and never met a stranger.  He is, however, NOT bright.  At all.

Every night they get a milk bone before the LMM and I sit down for our evening togetherness (we read, and then watch the weather, unless there's a baseball game on.  Very exciting.)

The dogs know that they get their bone before we go into the sitting room.  But sometimes we forget the bones.  To ensure that we do NOT forget the bones, they behave cooperatively, sitting side by side and blocking the doorway.  Not sure if it's intentional, but it is effective.  It would not be easy to get past them without paying the bone toll!

The revolution will be pre-announced

So people, it's that time of year again. You know, time for the Taliban spring offensive!

In case you had forgotten to mark your calendars or buy tickets, the group officially announced that the offensive will begin on May 12th!

Now personally I find the Taliban offensive 24/7/365, but you gotta admire their confidence, no?

Hey infidels: we are coming for you next Monday and we don't care if you know it or not!

Funniest part of the article though is this:

The Afghan government and Nato have not yet responded to the Taliban’s announcement.

What are they supposed to say? Thanks for the warning numbnutz? Don't bother, we give up? I know you are but what am I?


I love the phrase, Taliban spring offensive. Like rush week or fashion week. Also a good name for an indie band.

This week's sign of the stink- pocalypse

After 90 years, Davidson college is abolishing their laundry service for students.

Reactions are mixed.

From Davidson's president Carol Quillen:

Quillen, who washed her own clothes as an undergraduate at the University of Chicago and while pursuing her Ph.D. at Princeton, added that no one comes to Davidson for free laundry.


From an alum:

“We gave up vespers, we gave up chapel, we went coed, we even gave up the marching band, but dad-gum-it, we can’t give up the laundry. What is this world coming to?”


Then there's the LOL quote of the week:

Though nationally prominent for its academics, free laundry distinguishes Davidson on every Internet list of special student benefits for various colleges.

Any thoughts, Mungo? I bet you went there for the laundry, right?

Read more here: http://www.newsobserver.com/2014/05/07/3843462/davidson-college-scrubbing-historic.html?sp=/99/100/&ihp=1#storylink=cpy

G. Rossman Peeks at P-Kroog's Journal

And we all benefit, by getting to read it.

Excerpt:

Krugman’s Journal. May 1, 2014. Dog carcass in alley this morning. Only I predicted its stomach would burst like a housing bubble. 

 When the storm comes the insufficient aggregate demand of all their austerity will foam up about their waists and all the oligarchs and politicians will look up and shout “save us!” and I’ll look down and whisper “stimulus.” 

 (You'll need to have read "The Watchmen" to get many of the allusions.  But it works pretty well on its own!)