Monday Awards

Best Internet Find: Alex NJ sent me this awesome collection of awkward signs from around the world AND America.
Scariest Story: Austrian Admits 24-Year Abuse of Daughter in Cell.  Ew ew ew ew ew (Reuters)
Story I Could Have Most Predicted: When Young Teachers Go Wild on the Web (Washington Post)

Most Inspirational Democratic Story of the Morning: [...]

A Little From the Sunday Post, a Little From the Sunday Times

A little from (almost) every section…
First, The Washington Post:
Magazine Section: Date Lab readers claimed that a monkey could do a better job setting up couples than the Post. Guess what? The monkey did a better job.
Style: A fashion review of the polygamist women’s garb

Metro: “Schoolyard face-offs” at my high school because of facebook [...]

Enough Reading For Your Sunday

From both Saturday & Sunday’s Times:
Things that make me angry:
Soldier Sues Army, Saying His Atheism Led to Threats. Also on CBS’ Sunday Morning this morning, but no video link on their website…
South Dakota to Revisit Restrictions on Abortion
Things that make me happy:
Outdoor ‘Living Rooms’ Bring Touches of Cheer to Central Los Angeles
Empowering by Disempowerment: How [...]

Sure Plays a Mean Pinball

A story about the last pinball machine factory in the world.
A well-dressed panhandler. Attention, Planning students DO NOT read this article.
The Abercrombie Boys, Explained.
The mayor of Alice, Texas, was dog-sitting for her next-door neighbors, decided she wanted to keep the dog and told the family that it died.  The family sued the (now former) mayor [...]

Articles I Forgot to Post

Animated Bambi Debate Arouses Pastoral Passions (Yeah, the headline didn’t make much sense to me, either.  But it’s about Disney and the environment, so how can you go wrong?)
CNN’s Election Night Interpreter Revels in a High-Tech Toy (CNN has a sweet screen where you can learn all about electoral politics.  Woohoo!)
Valerie sent me this: Inappropriate [...]

Why Walking Barefoot and Recycling Will Save Your Life

A few months ago, we had a party at KellyQ’s.  This guy comes in with these crazy shoes that weren’t, well, shoes.  They were these weird sock-looking-thingies, which would have been fine had there also been shoes, but there were no shoes.  We decided he was a little kooky, but guess what?  He was right.
How [...]

All Sorts of Fun From Today’s Times

Bob Herbert on education in America
Yet another reason why I love where I’m from (Montgomery County Aims to Make Green Homes Mandatory)
Joel is reading the Times!  Holy moly!  Another good one on McCain’s font (Optimum).
This article almost made me cry (and it’s short)! High School Project on Genocide Was a Portent of Real-Life Events
In Haiti, [...]

Obama’s Campaign Now Brought to You By Abercrombie & Fitch

Anyone else watch Obama’s concession speech tonight? Yeah, there are three kids standing behind him, proudly airing their allegiance to, um, beautiful white people and overpriced clothing? Being cool in high school 7 years ago? Or maybe Barack took a card from Stephen Colbert and instead of Doritos, picked A&F.
Photo Credit: [...]

Passover in the News

Happy Passover!
I was away this weekend (Scholars in New York as well as Seders in both Queens and Long Island), so I am behind on my posting, but here are some good ones…
Bill Kristol on the different presidential candidates’ Passover messages in today’s Times. (thank you, Andrea)

I cannot get the italics off.

Matzo during the Holocaust [...]

Farfallegate

These articles all from two pages in yesterday’s Times, needless to say, I giggled a little…
Cindy McCain’s recipes were stolen from cookbooks and websites.  This has been dubbed “farfallegate.”  Our country is funny.
The Obama-Clinton Decision Tree.  I love this.
Bloggers are changing the political world, but the one who released the bit about Obama dissing PA [...]