Cats, Miru, Dan Grobstein File

Got this from one of my daughters: Invisible LOLcats, Monorail Cats, and Michael Cera's parody of this extremely lame, but apparently serious, video resume.

Marlow's College roommate Miru Kim, featured in Esquire.

Dan Grobstein File

• Why does a salad cost more than a Big Mac?

• OPINION
| November 21, 2007
Paul Krugman: A thought about political discourse
Paul Krugman
A meta-thought inspired by the Social Security craziness: Faced with a major public issue, such as the future of Social Security, one might think that the crucial thing would be to ascertain the facts.

• I'm a big fan of railroad expansion [ed. note: so am I]
• Ten most viewed pages at Conservapedia [ed. note: I feel obliged to point out that this is probably the result of clickbots gaming the system.]
• Wall Street Journal:
  
  Accident Victims Face Grab for Legal Winnings
  Wal-Mart Paid Bills For Mrs. Shank, Then Sued for Money Back
  By VANESSA FUHRMANS
  November 20, 2007; Page A1
  
  JACKSON, Mo. -- A collision with a semi-trailer truck seven years ago left 52-year-old Deborah Shank permanently brain-damaged and in a wheelchair. Her husband, Jim, and three sons found a small source of solace: a $700,000 accident settlement from the trucking company involved. After legal fees and other expenses, the remaining $417,000 was put in a special trust. It was to be used for Mrs. Shank's care.
  
  Instead, all of it is now slated to go to Mrs. Shank's former employer, Wal-Mart Stores Inc.

• OPINION
| November 20, 2007
Op-Ed Contributor: Pay Me for My Content
By JARON LANIER
How long must creative people wait for the Web’s new wealth to find a path to their doors?
• EDUCATION
| November 20, 2007
Decline of the Tenure Track Raises Concerns
By ALAN FINDER
A nationwide trend for universities to use adjunct professors instead of a tenured faculty has become so extreme that some schools are pulling back.
• Boston Globe:
  Street smarts? Motorists trying to navigate Boston's New Age roads find old, whirled ways [ed. note: my ex-girlfriend was, in part, in charge of making sure there were street signs in Boston for the bicentennial in 1976; they've since, apparently, disappeared. When I was in Boston from 1970 to 1974, there was a not a single street sign along the length of Boston's longest street, Commonwealth Ave. Apparently if you don't know where you are you don't need to/deserve to know where you are are. Everyone I know believes the old story about Boston's streets having been laid out by cows--which apparently isn't true.]
• Of course the Bush plan to improve Thanksgiving travel was a load of codswallop.

• NATIONAL
| November 17, 2007
In U.S. Name Count, Garcias Are Catching Up With Joneses
By SAM ROBERTS
Smith is still the most common American surname, but for the first time, two Hispanic names are in the top 10.
• Why would an Ann Coulter ad show up next to this definition? Random, or a hack. You will probably not see the ad, as they rotate.
• Tommy Lee Jones in the role of a lifetime… and it isn't his new movie.