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The Politics of Laughter Feel free to call the cops anytime. [picture] How to hide adult beverages in Facebook pictures using cats. [Tumblr] The UC Davis Pepper-Spraying incident, a nod to Banksy. [picture] “Here’s your icecream, sir.” [.gif] Mufasa, nooooooo! (UC Davis) [picture] So that’s why he was screaming! (UC Davis) [picture] That’s a good story. [picture] Well, that study didn’t really get off the ground. [newspaper]
A new round of “climate gate” emails have gone viral on the web. [NPR] The web braces for 1,000 new top-level web domains a year. [Wall Street Journal] The internet: the final frontier. [The Daily Collegian] Lessons NASA can learn from the internet. [Science 2.0]
In my first semester as a college freshman, I attended a campus event at which student organizations could promote themselves and happened upon the table for the UK College Democrats. Intrigued, I got to talking to several of their members and agreed to attend their first meeting, which, like any well-planned first semester meeting featured free pizza and soda. I became a regular at these meetings over the coming weeks and when a position opened up at the end of the semester for the chapter treasurer, I was nominated and unanimously elected to the position. I served as the treasurer for some three months before our president announced she would not be running. All heads in the room turned to me and I was once again nominated and unanimously elected president of the chapter, the youngest such president in chapter history. While I was president of the UK chapter, we volunteered for John Yarmuth’s winning 2006 congressional campaign as well as for the campaign of Ken Lucas in northern Kentucky’s 4th district. It was while working on the latter campaign that I first met a man who would come to play a pivotal role in my development as a professional political staffer. Read the rest of… College football has an indisputable influence on citizens across America, both while in college and long after graduation. Recently, many questions have been raised about just how big these programs are becoming. In fact, collegiate presidents are beginning to speak out against the large emphasis that has been placed on football programs by university administrations. See here for an account on these issues from former San Diego State University President, Stephen Weber. [Washington Post] It has become widely known that athletes are afforded opportunities to attend universities that otherwise would not be options for them. With regard to football, reports from the NCAA show that this trend spreads across all conferences in the country, giving football recruits up to ten times better chances of admittance than students in the general population. [ESPN] In his controversial (and extensive) article, Taylor Branch discusses the case for pay-for-play college athletics, in which student athletes would be compensated for their time on the field. See here for the article as well as an interview with the author. [The Atlantic] [PBS] The enormity of the college football sector has resulted in extremely high expenses and revenues across Division I schools. See here for information on how these figures have changed dramatically since the turn of the century. [Matlab Geeks] Did you know that China is considering scrapping its one-child policy? Well, that’s according to “Chinese authorities” like the Deputy Director of the Committee of Population, Resources, and Environment (and I thought our government was bloated). I doubt changing the policy is a big priority in China right now… [Market Watch] A great song by one of the greatest bands of all time. Here is the Grateful Dead with “Liberty.” The Dead first performed it in 1993. Over the next two years, they jammed on it some 50 times. [YouTube]
Interesting blog post on Tim Tebow, “Tebowing,” and religious liberty. [Manhattan Declaration]
Local Artists & Crafters are Setting up Shop!
Help raise funds for the Temple* When you find fantastic holiday gifts And buy directly from the vendors:
Sunday, November 27th, 2011 11:00am—3:00pm Temple Adath Israel 124 N. Ashland Ave., Lexington Priced from $12+:
*Temple Adath Israel will receive 10% of the proceeds from the fair. Beautiful, thoughtful, unique holiday gifts! BREAKING NEWS: Fashionistas go bonkers over Versace’s collection at H&M! [Boston Herald] Obsessed with Twilight? Check out the fashion at Breaking Dawn‘s premiere! [The Cut] It’s almost that time! Check out this chic holiday shopping guide – you never know what you may find! [Fashionista] Don’t expect to see Kim Kardashian on the cover of Elle anytime soon! [Styleite] Trouble at Gap? Say it isn’t so! [The Cut]
This is just the tip of an oppo iceberg that would make Herman Cain’s look like a pebble. With the prospects of a vulnerable president and a Senate that’s clearly within reach, I just can’t imagine Republicans nominating someone so noxious among independents, someone with so much baggage. But Newt’s boomlet is yet another sign of the fact that this was really Rick Perry’s nomination to lose – something Perry’s worked diligently to do almost since the day he entered. Every day this media-manufactured boomlet persists is another day that some enterprising journalist will dig a little deeper into Newt’s past. Like Cain, he’ll claim that the liberal media is trying to bring him down, when in reality, it will be his own pattern of reckless personal, political, and profit-seeking behavior that will do the trick. (Cross-posted, with author’s permission, from Politico’s Arena) The Politics of Pigskin This week in his MMQB article Peter King talks about Jay Cutler, what could happen if the Colts end up with Peyton Manning and Andrew Luck on the same roster, and much more. [Sports Illustrated] What happened to Jay Cutler, you might be asking. Well he fractured the thumb on his throwing hand, which will require surgery. This is a tough break for a surging Bears team. [ESPN] The winners and losers from Sunday include Bears’ wideout Johnny Knox representing the winners and the Bengals’ TE Jermaine Gresham in the loser’s column. [Yahoo! Sports] Rex Ryan generated another headline as the NFL fined him $75,000 for cursing at a fan. [CBS Sports] Here is a quick preview of the Monday Night Football matchup between the Kansas City Chiefs and the New England Patriots. [SB Nation] After the weekend’s college football schedule wrapped up there were some changes at the top of the rankings. Currently, the top 3 teams in college football are 1. LSU, 2. Alabama, and 3. Arkansas. Not only are these three teams all from the SEC, they are from the same division of the SEC! LSU and Alabama are currently sitting pretty to match up in the national championship game. That is, unless Arkansas can play spoiler next week against LSU. [Sports Illustrated]
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