Morjes!

Welcome to my blog. I write about fitting in, sticking out, and missing the motherland as a serial foreigner.

June 14th, outsourced

From Russia: giant sinkholes and yet another amazing dashcam video compilation of incredible near-misses. Or non-misses that people walked away from. That first one - !!!! Or the one at 1:10!!!! [HT Jeremy]

I know this is a sideshow to the main issue, but I had to laugh at one designer's makeover of those horribly 90s PRISM slides. [HT Michael]

Would you like to watch three minutes of a 2-year-old making trick shots? I thought so.

In 1961, a married woman applied to grad school at Harvard. She got a letter in response that said, in part, "could you kindly write us a page or two at your earliest convenience indicating specifically how you might plan to combine a professional life in city planning with your responsibilities to your husband and a possible future family?" Here is her response 52 years later. [HT Kaylee]

America in color, 1939-1943. It's amazing how a color photo can make a difference. [HT Suzanne]

What happens to women who are denied abortions?

Beard memes and the proper hijab narrative. I find these fascinating. [HT Erin]

Election wasteland

Sheikh sighting