Sunday morning roundup

I know we've heard/read enough about this, but there's so much acrimonious, absurd, childish discourse and antics out there that it's that much more important to amplify the mature voices. Kristof's take is not extraordinary, but concise. Maureen Dowd brilliantly sums up the whole mess, before she starts to ramble. Frank Rich is insightful as usual. See also

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I'm glad I won't need a nanny to raise a bilingual kid.

In the National Parks, technology has been enabling some serious stupidity.

While we contemplate the meaning of an incoming college freshman class that never knew the country of Czechoslovakia, Japan sees a cultural (and economic) see change as its new generation of young adults didn't grow up in a flourishing economy.