Saturday, January 8, 2011

Saturday morning roundup

Read more about the amazing Dr. Abdi. Good for Glamour for designating her a Woman of the Year (but I have yet to understand why anybody should care about the Kardashians).

Egyptian political humor, anyone?

New Mexico's experiment in idiocracy.

How bad eggs might end up in your fast-food breakfast.

Charles Blow on "faith": unresolved and religious non-affiliation.

I get that financial literacy is essential and too rarely taught, but, hold up: there is something very wrong with writing, "Then again, students spend their lives in Spanish and United States history classes. Practical skills are rarely part of anyone’s core curriculum." Let's leave aside U.S. history, even though one might argue that in this day and age of insisting on fealty to the Constitution, understanding U.S. history might be practical. But Spanish? Another non-practical skill? Really?

On that note, Gail Collins amuses as always.

Very insightful post from Alexandra Petri on women in politics. Though I disagree with her assessment of the SNL sketch--maybe that assessment in and of itself says something about the issue.

A particularly poignant Modern Love column.

One thing I will say about my mother and her obsession with my weight is, at least she's not passive-aggressive. That's quite a note.

Some of these Style Invitational prophetic headlines are quite worthwhile.

Oh, speaking of the Kardashians, here's their video holiday greeting, in case you missed it:

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