It pains me to say it, but until I Googled ‘Canada’ this morning, I had no idea who the leader of that country was.
That’s messed up. For a well-educated white person who often makes idle threats to move there, it’s pretty sad that I don’t know who leads the country to our north. I feel even worse when I consider the fact that the entire world knows our president’s name and followed the election of Barack Obama with perhaps more fervency than the average American.
So Canada. Do you know?
I realize it’s time to just let Sarah and Joe (the Plummer) fade into trivia questions, but this is pretty incredible. I don’t know how Palin comes back in 2012.
$40,000 for Todd Palin. That’s in addition to the 150k already reported.
Similar in their simplicity and cleverness, telescopictext.com and barackobamaisyournewbicycle.com are perhaps the two best web sites to grace the internets in the past 12 months.
Hat tip: Errata
I heard a great NPR interview this morning with David Quammen, a nature writer and defender (sort of) of mosquitoes.
While acknowledging the utter havoc disease-carrying mosquitoes cause, Quammen notes three things that may make you soften your stance – a little.
Of course, that last point could stand some clarification. We’re currently doing a pretty good job of plowing under the globe’s rainforests, but maybe we can thank the mosquito that we haven’t already decimated them.
I came across this brilliant amalgamation on Sasha Frere-Jones’ blog. To echo Frere-Jones, it really is the perfect timing. It’s also a great song.
