Category Archives: Completely Different

Brian Leiter's Weapons of Math Instruction shows that it's possible to laugh about Really Serious Stuff.

If, like me, you pay some attention to British politics you will probably find this spoof memo about Bush's state visit to the UK to be pretty funny: Telegraph | Opinion | Palace-speak for the Bush men

If the name “John Prescott” means nothing to you, it's still funny, but you'll probably miss some of the best jokes.

Yes, here it is, not quite “Man Bites Dog,” but nearly the ultimate headline and certainly the stuff for a slew of good law school hypotheticals, Dog Shoots Man. [Update: the link died, but there's a better one.]

ARIS (Reuters) – A French hunter was shot by his dog after he left a loaded shotgun in the trunk of his car with two dogs and one of the animals accidentally stepped on the trigger, police said Wednesday. …

[Update 2: It's a regular epidemic! It happened in New Zealand in December.]

I have two great children who I'm very proud of, and who say all sorts of interesting things. But—maybe because my oldest is only ten? or more likely due to genetics—our conversations are never quite like the entertaining discourse in the DeLong household. Especially this weekend, when every other word I said seemed to be “homework”.

So, I'm reading the Financial Times's account of how the CIA is telling the Senate that Naming of agent 'was aimed at discrediting CIA' and idly wondering if it's a bad thing or a terrible thing when a banana republic's Great Power's clandestine services get into a war with the Junta Chief Executive, when I notice that the FT's computer has a couple of stories that it has identifed as related to the Bush administration's unprecedented betrayal of a clandestine CIA operative.

Click the thumbnail to see the apt headlines to the two links