The Wednesday Eudemon
All sorts of linkable material at Drudge right now: School plans to offer pill to middle school girls, and state law allows the girls to get it without parental consent (the confluence of demographics led to this result: Maine is the land of leftists and hillbillies, neither of which are known for self-control). Obesity is more dangerous than smoking and will dramatically shorten the lives of millions, a landmark study has found. Warning: Linked site contains obscene picture. One of the world's most eminent scientists was embroiled in an extraordinary row last night after he claimed that black people were less intelligent than white people and the idea that "equal powers of reason" were shared across racial groups was a delusion. Politically-incorrect, racist, wrong, or right? I don't know, but the Nobel Prize-winner is now officially the next Grand Wizard of the KKK. You're simply not allowed to say such things. How can such a smart man fail to know that? 6-year-old NYC girl faces citation for vandalism: drawing with chalk on sidewalk. It's a grave matter. The girl didn't have the decency to draw in NYC tradition: chalk outlines of bodies.
The Brooklyn Paper published the chalk-art story. After I read it, I scanned through the site. I've always thought I'd like to live in NYC in general and Brooklyn in particular (if it were safe, which it is increasingly these days). Here's part of the reason why: neighborhoods. The Brooklyn Paper covers neighborhoods: Bay Ridge”“Bensonhurst, Brooklyn Heights”“Downtown, Carroll Gardens”“Cobble Hill, Fort Greene”“Clinton Hill, North Brooklyn, Park Slope. Identification by neighborhood seems unique to NYC (Benedict Groeschel recalls that, as a child, everyone identified himself by the parish he belonged to: "St. John's," even the non-Catholics). NYC is small in that way. It's also small because you can walk everywhere you need to go, like I can in my small town.
A Pennslvania woman is facing a jail sentence after she was arrested for shouting profanities at an overflowing toilet. Was she swearing at the toilet or at the situation? If the former, she needs jail time; we have to protect the toilets. If the latter, I've done the same thing, especially if it's overflowing after offal use.
Great headline at FARK this morning: Sen. Larry Craig claims to be a victim of what he calls “gladiator politics.” Nope, not gay at all.
One final thing: Where have the TDE commentators gone? I think I've received two comments in the past week, not counting the midget-porn spam.
