Controversy in California: whether the Chinese American kids learn to write simplified Chinese characters or traditional characters – which has some political implications (complicated, when you consider the whole China v. Taiwan thing).
“What Lawyers Can Learn from Sisyphus” – interesting article on how to persist in the face of difficulty. Then again, it’s not often that I see a reference to Sisyphus.
What a sad possible outcome about Amelia Earheart. Of course, crash landing on a coral reef would be a likelier outcome than, say, what Star Trek: Voyager once proposed had happened to her (kidnapped by aliens, of course).
Slate’s Ad Report Card column by Seth Stevenson analyzes tat Levi’s commercial, which has someone narrating a Walt Whitman poem amidst arty cinematography and – of course – people wearing Levi jeans.
Well, as seen in the video below, there was the weird thing at Grand Central, last year-ish, as a complement to the dancing at a Belgian train station.