Temperature-wise, it’s starting to feel a lot like it’s December to me.
Apparently, there’s a reason why it’s hard to figure out what’s a male polar bear v. a female polar bear; Slate’s Explainer explains.
If you’re that confused, you could make yourself a Muppet, at FAO Schwartz.
This does not sound like a real fun oral arguments at the US Supreme Court, the way Slate’s Dahlia Lithwick describes it.
A really fascinating NY Times profile of nominated US Attorney General Eric Holder, a native New Yorker (formerly of Queens), alumnus of Stuyvesant High Scool, alumnus of Columbia (undergrad and Law School – Alma Mater’s tooting the horn here).
But, wait – there’s more – other bigwigs from NYC public high schools who made it big in politics outside the city, as discussed in Sewell Chan’s post for NY Times’ City Room blog. Mostly on those Stuy alumni, plus Senator Schumer, who graduated from Madison High School in Brooklyn (or, as he put it at my high school graduation, “that other “M” school on Bedford Avenue”). But, a fascinating post (it even references to US Judge Denny Chin (SDNY)’s status as a Stuy alumnus).
The recent terror in Mumbai (previously Bombay), India, is a sad reminder of what the world can be – and is, even in a place as diverse as India. Fascinating article about the Jews of India in the New York Times, and in Newsweek: “Can India and Pakistan Learn to Cooperate?” and Fareed Zakaria wonders if this might be an opportunity for India – and South Asia at large – to reform.
Plus, since it’s now December, NY Times’ Jennifer 8. Lee on the 5th Avenue holiday window shopping — weird and cool as ever.