That was a question I was invited to answer on Quora. Hoo-hah! I rubbed my hands together and answered as follows:

Who's asking? Let's turn it around: Why are

• English people
• Irish people
• Scottish people
• French people
• Spanish people

[ganked entirely from osewalrus, here]

How did Cracked get to be a serious online publication? This piece runs through 6 standard responses by wealthy people to the problem of growing income inequality in the U.S. and explains to clueless rich people why these responses just piss people off.
http://www.cracked.com/blog/6-things-rich-people-need-to-stop- ( Read more... )

Signal-boosted from fyrfitrmedic.

On Sheep, Wolves, and Sheepdogs - Dave Grossman
By LTC (RET) Dave Grossman, author of "On Killing."

Honor never grows old, and honor rejoices the heart of age. It does so because honor is, finally, about defending those noble and worthy things that deserve defending, even if it comes at a high cost. In our time, that may mean ( Read more... )

just seen on Facebook
( picture and text )

By meltatum and Berdene C. Foye, "a song and video dedicated to the victims and survivors of the Tucson shooting". (YouTube 2:37). Note, it is not ose and it is not about the shootings.

( video )

I read two thought-provoking articles on the same editorial page today. What makes that unusual and surprising is that they were in the Daily Pennsylvanian, the student newspaper of the University of Pennsylvania. It's not a bad paper, let alone a bad student paper, but it rarely gives me two simultaneous hits at this level. Click on the headlines ( Read more... )

To the Straight Guy at the Party Last Night

[signal boost of browngirl 's post (22 comments there last I looked)!!]

dagoski has said a whole lot of things very well here.