1. 21 May



    You are smart, talented, educated, conscientious, untainted by the mistakes and conventional wisdom of the past. But you are also very annoying. Because there is a lot that you don’t know that you don’t know. Your parents are nodding. You’ve been annoying them for years. Why do you think they paid for college? So that you might finally, at long last, annoy someone else. And now your professors are nodding.
    — Jon Lovett, in a really good graduation speech. This isn’t even the best quote, it’s just one that made me laugh. 
     

  2. 21 May



    Honor Basketball by Switching to 11-Foot Rims - Room for Debate

    This is one of the worst sports-related ideas I’ve ever heard.

     

  3. 21 May


    A chronological collection of Alonzo Mourning references in rap songs from 1993-2012. This is awesome, but I’m disappointed someone tried to rhyme “Alonzo” with “Mutumbo”.

    (via Deadspin.)

     

  4. 21 May



    serious question

    Powerline (yes, I will click and read any interesting looking link) on scandal-palooza:

    There are two valid takeaways from the IRS scandal. First, it confirms that big government, whose power Obama is bent on expanding, cannot be trusted to behave properly.

    These days, I am really having trouble processing what makes something in the government “big government”, or just “government”. Can you collect revenue from 300 million people and a bazillion businesses without that mechanism being, well… big? 

    And by the way, who have we put in the White House lately who hasn’t tried to expand the power of big government? Hoover?

    (DO NOT SAY REAGAN THAT IS HOOEY AND YOU KNOW IT.)

     

  5. 19 May


    This is how I know our cats like us. Because if they didn’t, they would have left years ago. 

     

  6. 19 May


    Oh dear lord this is catchy. That’s not even fair.

     

  7. 19 May



    I hate umbrellas

    http://13/05/presidents-rain-photos/65310/

    No one is safe from looking stupid because of an umbrella.

     

  8. 19 May



    Compared to the well-rounded citizen that is the raven, the pelican is the serial killer of birds.
    — Deadspin, on the new name for the former Hornets of New Orleans. I literally had no idea this happened until the other day, and I am a pretty big basketball dork. 

    (Source: deadspin.com)