[Aside: Skins, who are you and what have you done with my entertaining and shenanigans-filled show. This depressing crap makes me think and wonder too hard - that's the kind of stuff I watch Damages for. Project Runway designers, please learn to follow directions. Like sharing, it's something we all learn how to do in grade school and is a skill we use the rest of our lives. Well, most of us, anyway.]
Borowitz Report imagines what will happen when the very-unfortunately-yet-entertainingly-cluelessly-self-styled "Teabaggers" finally figure out why everyone under 35 hides smiles behind their hands at the mention of the moniker. I'm waiting for this to actually happen, and then I will laugh and laugh and laugh. The entire situation is a little bit like the iPad, where you just sit back and have to wonder what all the clued-in people (and by "clued-in" I mean aware that sometimes words have more than one meaning) were doing during the "Name Choice" meeting and why none of them could find it in themselves to inform the masses that their self-branding of choice was not only leaving them open to ridicule but just plain unfitting as well.
Today's xkcd was particularly apt given Madrid's sudden turn towards Arctic temperatures and its newfound propensity to snow/slush/sleet a whole hell of a lot (yes, I'm a wimp, hush). My favorites are Legolas, Prius and Higgs boson.
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And finally, in what has become a Monday night tradition, I have spent half an hour looking for a piece of good news to present in my conversations class tomorrow morning. There is precious little good news going on right now, but BBC usually comes through for me with some weird, quirky story about a llama in Nepal that gave birth to conjoined twins or something. Tonight, while I have still not been able to find one piece of good news, I did find out that people in Greece are throwing flour at each other and that the infamous backless hospital gown has been redesigned. Thank you, BBC.
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