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Bad Kids, Bad Man
One of my favorite news stories has a sequel! When I lived in Florida, I remember seeing the tale of Latarian Milton, the adventurous young lad that stole his grandma’s SUV. That story has gone on to become an internet meme. Clearly, 10-year-old Zilan Fitch knows his meme, too. The Texas kid was mad, thought about his brochacho LM and so he hopped in his mom’s SUV and took it for a spin. In this version, his mom saw him pulling away and followed him. He took her and police on a high speed chase. Luckily, no one was hurt. While I don’t advocate doing kids doing bad stuff, these sorts of stories make me wish I would have been less mouthy, more daring. More.
Don’t worry, mom and dad, I won’t try to live out some childhood rebellion now. This guy shows me that it is not as funny when you are a grown up, because your parents will press charges and the cops will shoot a man. More.
Libya Update
NATO is taking over control of the Libyan no-fly zone. More.
The White House is finding fancy ways to describe our role in Libya – kinetic military action, eh? More.
France is taking a front-seat role in the Libyan conflict. Sarkozy has his reasons. Actually, this is a really good read. More.
No More Pi
A Republican congresswoman from Alabama wants to help American kids improve their international ranking in math. However, she is not interested in pushing our kids harder, she just wants to make math easier. She is going after 3.14159265..., otherwise known as pi. Pi is an irrational number that is used to calculate the area of a circle and is considered one of the most important mathematical constants. Well, Congresswoman Martha Roby thinks it is phooey and has introduced legislation to just round it off to three. If you don’t support this, you don’t love the kids and you don’t love America! More.
Psych! Stop freaking out, Mathlete, you can still bake a pie on March 14. This is satire, but it reads authentic, doesn’t it? Roby has even issued a press release to make sure people don’t actually think it is true.
Your Services Are No Longer Needed
Dudes, we are screwed. It is just a matter of time before we are caged and only kept around to lift stuff and mow the grass! They’ve figured out a way to make sperm in a test tube. Japanese researchers have figured it out with mice. This could be a good thing, actually! One application for this would be allowing young boys going through cancer treatment to preserve their chances of being a father later in life. It could also be used with endangered animals. More.
Melo Wants New York to Mellow
Carmelo Anthony wants New York Knicks “to relax and just have fun.” Um, he knows that he is in New York now, right? And that his new team has gone 7-10 since he arrived? Hope that works out for you, buddy. More.
(For sports fan, I realize that there are bigger basketball stories going on, such as Duke’s loss, but I am guessing that if you really care about the NCAA tournament that you aren’t turning to me for that content. #justsayin)
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