UP-FRONT JAILHOUSE NUGGET!!
China's Double Jeopardy (Geoffrey Sant) from Slate
"In China, the rich and powerful can hire body doubles to do their prison time for them."
WOW! Now there's some real entrepreneurial creativity at work there!! Give that man a RAISE!!
Syria Prime Minister Riad Hijab Defects from the BBC
"Syrian Prime Minister Riad Hijab has defected from President Bashar al-Assad's government to join "the revolution", his spokesman says."
What next? Assad himself defects?
The Teddy Bear Bombers in Belarus from Foreign Policy Magazine
"Foreign Policy speaks with the Swedish activists who dropped a planeload of stuffed animals into Belarus, Europe's last dictatorship."
Reminder: This Recovery Stinks, and So Did the Last One (Derek Thompson) from the Atlantic
""In January 2001, Bill Clinton's final month in office, 132.4 million Americans were employed," Jim Tankersley writes. "Eleven years and six months later, that number has grown all the way to 133 million." Since the turn of the Millennium, the U.S. economy added more than 30 million working-age people, but total jobs grew by only 600,000. That's a lost decade. And it's come after two lost recoveries."
The Social and Economic Reasons for Generation Squeezed (Robert J. Samuelson) from the Washington Post
"I worry about the future — not mine but that of my three children, all in their 20s. It is an axiom of American folklore that every generation should live better than its predecessors. But this is not a constitutional right or even an entitlement, and I am skeptical that today’s young will do so. Nor am I alone."
Sandra Day O'Connor Says Public Disapproval Of Roberts Court ‘A Great Disappointment' (VIDEO) from the Huffington Post
"“There’s been some suggestion that the trend down began with the Bush v. Gore decision,” O’Connor said. “That could be something that triggered public reexamination.” Yet O’Connor told Schieffer that she doesn’t regret the vote she cast in that case, one of the court's most
controversial."
First Thoughts on the Election: Reaching the Saturation Point (Chuck Todd et al.) from MSNBC
"We often struggle to find the words to describe UNBELIEVABLE amounts of money being spent on this presidential race. But close to $50 million in a week is absolutely stunning. It's also unchartered territory. Are there diminishing returns on this advertising? Do ads become less effective? How do you break through the clutter? We just don't know. But here's one thing we do know: At some point, no matter how much more water you put on a towel, it becomes harder to make it wetter. That's why they call it saturation."
GOP to Reid: You're Next (Charlie Mahtesian) from Politico
"...the actual term ‘liar’ crosses a line that’s seldom breached, signaling a widespread GOP belief that, even by the diminished standards of contemporary political debate, Reid has violated a code. ... the GOP has indicated it plans to make it personal. Between the loaded language and Priebus’s pointed reference to Reid’s Ritz-Carlton abode – an issue that surfaced in the senator’s 2010 re-election campaign – Republicans just sent the clearest signal to Reid yet that he needs to either produce the evidence, stand down or prepare for an extended public discussion of his own finances."
After the GOP's nasty 2010 campaign against Reid in Nevada, I'm sure Reid is quaking in his boots. You have to read the entire piece ... and ask yourself: what "line" are they talking about? There is nothing they are accusing Reid of doing that they have not been doing to Obama since 2008 (and to a much greater degree than anything Reid has said). Moreover, what's the difference between one GOP lawmaker shouting out "you lie" during a state-of-the-union address and another GOPer calling Reid a "dirty liar" on a Sunday talk show?
Harry Reid's Master Plan (Ta-Nehisi Coates) from the Atlantic
"I would like to say that reporters really should press Reid on his alleged source, and question him aggressively. Except those reporters often use the same tactics."
Gabby Douglas Isn't Jingoistic Enough for Fox News (Conor Friedersdorf) from the Atlantic
"The Olympic gold medalist was one target of criticism in a segment that included the dumbest remarks on American exceptionalism yet broadcast. One curse of American life, dramatized in the following clip, is the fact that American exceptionalism and patriotism are invoked most often by people who've reflected on them least..."
COLLEGE RANKINGS NUGGET!!
College Rankings 2012: Top Party Schools (Photos) from Newsweek
"To compile the list of the best schools in the nation at which to party down, we limited the pool of colleges to those that were considered “best-fit” for students interested in attending a “big-time party school” according to CollegeView."
OUTER SPACE NUGGET!!
Voyager 1 Prepares to Leave our Solar System After Traveling Eleven-billion Miles during 35-year Journey from the Daily Mail [of the UK]
"On the same day NASA makes a historic encounter with Mars, one of Man's
earliest rockets is setting it's own truly historic record."
TREEHOUSE NUGGET!!
My Secret Hideaway: Stunning Photos Show How American couple Created a Treehouse Village in Costa Rican Rainforest from the Daily Mail [of the UK]
"Mateo and Erica Hogan initially visited Costa Rica hoping to find a surf shack and instead became the creators of a treehouse village sitting on 600 acres of rainforest."
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