Current events

The Journal Gazette on Saturday ran this pseudo-intellectional, unintentionally hilarious column by one Katie Roiphe that orginally ran in Slate. Seems Katie got tired of the whole "echo-chamber of election anxiety" thing, and so watched the last presidential debate with her 9-year-old daughter Violent, who had some remarkable insights about the candidates' resemblance to "Harry Potter" characters:

I'm not quite as scandalized as some people seem to be over the fact that the Obama administration tried to sell a lie about the attack on us in Benghazi (it was a spontaneous riot because of a vile video, not a well-planned terrorist attack to commemorate 9/11) in an apparent effort to keep their "al Qaida is on the run" narrative going. I'm cynical enough to consider that politics as usual.

Answer to the question we never thought to ask, "Why are elections on Tuesdays?"

This happened last week, and I'm just now catching up with it. Disturbing:

In an interview with CNN host Piers Morgan last week, Media mogul and CNN founder Ted Turner said the fact that there have been more suicides than combat deaths in the Army this year is not “shocking,” but “good.”

Nooooo kidding!

President Obama dropped by “The Tonight Show” to chat up Jay Leno on Wednesday as part of his two-day “campaign extravaganza.” Perhaps it’s just two days because counting higher is a bit of a challenge?

Cool:

AUSTIN, Texas -- Texas prides itself on being the biggest — now it’s also the fastest.

On Wednesday, a newly constructed toll road opened about 20 miles south of Austin with a speed limit higher than any other roadway in the nation: 85 mph.

An interesting perspective -- "You don't own your Kindle books, Amazon reminds customer":

On a dark and stormy night, an employee of your local bookstore strolls into your home, starts tossing books you'd purchased over the last few years into a box, and — despite your protest — takes them all away without saying a word.

What a bunch of craven little twits:

Open mouth, insert foot:

An inexplicable outbreak of common senseon the bench:

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - Lap dances are taxable because they don't promote culture in a community the way ballet or other artistic endeavors do, New York's highest court concluded Tuesday in a sharply divided ruling.