Current events

Oh, go heterogeneously group yourselves:

It is true: Misery loves company. After suffering through the record-breaking cold Tuesday, I started to feel a little better on Wednesday when the temperature crawled out of the single digits. Then I felt a lot better when TV reports started coming in about the snow and cold hitting even the Deep South.

What a concept -- letting children be children:

Ripping up the playground rulebook is having incredible effects on children at an Auckland school.

Chaos may reign at Swanson Primary School with children climbing trees, riding skateboards and playing bullrush during playtime, but surprisingly the students don't cause bedlam, the principal says.

Cool, way cool:

Forget what you know about the library of the 20th century. You know, those dark places with clunky microform machines fossilizing in the basement and with rows of encyclopedias standing, perfectly alphabetized, in denial of their obsolescence.

Eeeuu. This puts a whole new spin on "trying to see things from someone else's perspective."

Google has been promoting its latest piece of hardware, Google Glass, as the latest, must-have, sexy tech product.

Now a software company wants to take the sexiness one step farther.

Someone who isn't a crazed conservative wingnut wants to impeach President Obama:

WASHINGTON — Worse than Richard Nixon. An unprecedented abuse of powers. The most un-American president in the nation’s history.

Nat Hentoff does not think much of President Obama.

And now, the famous journalist says it is time to begin looking into impeachment.

A "we're mad as hell, and we aren't going to take it anymore" moment in education:

On not sweating the small stuff:

Juxtaposition of the day. First, the dawn of a new season in China:

BEIJING (AP) -- Beijing's skyscrapers receded into a dense gray smog Thursday as the capital saw the season's first wave of extremely dangerous pollution, with the concentration of toxic small particles registering more than two dozen times the level considered safe.

Now, this is funny: Big, bad New Yorkers getting the pee scared out of them by a baby"

How do you go about promoting a horror movie about a devil child? There are all the usual routes--TV ads, billboards, websites, trailers--but perhaps the best way to convey the spirit of the film is to actually scare the living hell out of people with an actual devil baby.