This tweet has had me snickering from time to time over the past 24 hours.
I've never really thought about it this way: for the last eight years, a third-culture kid has been in charge of America. [HT Susanne]
Moral judgments distort perceptions of risk to a child. This came up somewhere on this blog recently in a comment, and my SIL Sarah pointed it out to me anew. Interesting reading.
How to pronounce everything. I have curated lists of personal mispronunciations on this blog somewhere. This new list includes "mischevious."
The headline itself is almost as good as the article: Paul Ryan, So Handsome, So Sad.
Designing a better ballot. Millions of votes have been thrown out over the years due to uninterpretable ballots. Shame.
Myanmar has sentenced a Dutch tourist to three months in prison for unplugging an amplifier on a Buddhist service. You guys, in Damascus in 2005 Jeremy went looking for the amplifier on our neighborhood mosque to disable it for the 4.30am prayer call. Solidarity.
