Dec 122014
- How to Read a Professor’s Door: Perfect!
- 20 Nincompoop Jerks of Dogs Sitting on Other Dogs: Hehehe.
- This Mom Checked Her Newborn Out of the Hospital Early. The Next Day Her Baby Was Taken Away.: This story is horrifying… and meanwhile, many kids are left in terribly abusive homes.
- 100 Years of Makeup in Less Than One Minute: Fun!
- The Secret to Resisting Temptation: People with the power to resist temptation “deliberately avoid situations in which their self-control might fail.” Meta-discipline matters!
- NFL player Benjamin Watson’s Ferguson post on Facebook goes viral: Deservedly so. I loved this (except for the last bit) for its sanity amongst far too much political insanity.
- Some thoughts on Eric Garner: Wise and sober words from Radley Balko.
- Trick Jumping Display from 1934: Kids jumping fire on ponies! What could go wrong?!?
- Being an ‘Elephant Mom’ in the Time of the Tiger Mother: This is a different (and valuable) perspective on parenting young children. Love, nurture… fancy that.
- England abolished grand juries decades ago because they didn’t work: This is a quick recap of what was so wrong with the grand jury proceeding about the death of Michael Brown, even if Darren Wilson was justified in the shooting (as I believe he was). I wonder what the prosecutor told the grand jury about the case of Eric Garner, given that it’s so damn easy to get an indictment.
- Eight Belles’ breakdown: a predictable tragedy: This is a fascinating article on why thoroughbreds are increasingly breaking down on the track. Already, the industry starts and runs them far too young: due to their development, horses shouldn’t be started under saddle until at least three or four years old, let alone raced at two. Now that we’ve added unsound breeding lines to that, it’s not surprising that the breakdowns are mounting.