Much Ado About Not Much
And yes, I am looking forward to my 65th birthday. Tom Curley and Arianna Huffington on the AP’s ludicrously ambitious plan to reign in use of their content. Robert Morgenthau on his retirement.
Right now, Arianna is explaining How The Internet Works to Tom.
Cable news notices Binghamton shooter was Asian! Just like VT Tech shooter! Trend Alert; prepare for in-depth pieces on Aggressive Asians.
From the Department of Chicken/Egg Theories: Whoever wrote this NYT lead is a trifle confooosed about what comes first…http://is.gd/obZP
Far more importantly—Rachel Sklar is 36?!? Damn. Girl looks great.
Hello! My name is Rachel Sklar, and today is my birthday. I’m 36, which can sound sort of old when you’re used to being a sprightly young 35. Needless to say, I was not looking forward to the birthday, and planned to let it pass quietly, with little more than a few grumbles and perhaps one or two self-pitying moans…in lieu of actual alcohol, I’d ask you to allocate the money to one of the charities listed above. If all of you chip in to celebrate, think of how drunk I’ll get! Except without the bloating, slurred speech or awkward lampshade table-dance. It’s a win-win for everyone, really.
“During a Nov. 18 seventh-grade history lesson on slavery, the teacher, Eileen Bernstein, who is white, selected two black students—one of whom was 13-year-old Gabrielle —taped their hands and feet, and had them crawl into the space under a desk to simulate what it must have been like for slaves transported in ships’ holds during the voyage to America.
In retrospect, the teacher ‘realizes that that was not a good choice and we’ve rectified the situation in terms of not using that simulation again,’ [principal Avis Shelby] added.”
Thank God the school has taken measures to ensure that teachers don’t USE THAT SIMULATION AGAIN. For chrissakes. [The Journal-News]
The Cult Of Personality is strong with all these former Gawker bloggers. Why don’t they form a blogging supergroup and start their own ‘Gawker’?
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