like a bird

last night when my mother came over to a deliver a fan to my apartment, my superintendent was hanging around outside with a parrot on his shoulder (as he is wont to do). so naturally we started talking about pet parrots, and my mother says, "parrots have very deep emotions. maybe deeper than humans."

i can buy that animals feel. but deeper than humans? really?

hercules hede of the day

From Greek mythology, Obama learned a lesson

pretty sweet lede of the day

Bush honors basketball champs

WASHINGTON (AP) — Nice comeback, Kansas. Pretty sweet welcome back, too.

why i hate new people

stupidity:

Adam Leibsohn, a 27-year-old communications strategist who makes roughly $60,000 a year and pays $1,650 a month for his own apartment in the East Village, says the trick to squeaking by in the city is to swear off impulse purchases and credit cards . . . “It’s kind of a spartan lifestyle,” he says.

reality: Median income in New York City in 2005: $43,434

moqtada al-sadr cracks me up every time

from the washington post:

Moqtada, his friends said, has always been a prankster, in ways both innocuous and macabre. Once, he made a big show of offering a 7-Up to a student, who was then surprised to learn that Sadr had filled the bottle with water. In a more recent incident, he anonymously sent Shaibani, the aide, text messages threatening to kill him, only to reveal later with laughter that it was all a practical joke.

possibilities

Could an owl, not husband, have killed N. Carolina woman?

oversharing

maybe it's because i work for a blog that actually does important stuff, but i don't understand why shallow, self-obsessed blogs are so bothered by emily gould's nyt magazine article. is writing about yourself so much worse than writing about how you feel about celebrities?