This one is about me

Can a public school system that does not track by ability adequately serve the gifted and talented? Spoiler alert: NO

Thanx to Slate Star Codex

Wait till Next Year

Brianna Wu didn’t win this time. [Twitter]

Thanx to File 770

Night Vision

J.W. Dunne’s An Experiment in Time [New Republic]

Thanx to File 770

Unforgivable and unforgettable

H.L. Mencken, good and bad [Paris Review]

Return

After All the President’s Men Bob Woodward spent 40 years on his ass on his laurels, writing suck-up book after suck-up book.* Charles Pierce said, “If he writes another one, I’m going to start thinking Nixon was framed.” Now he doesn’t have to. It seems Woodward should specialize in writing about evil presidents.

ETA: *As was pointed out to me on Facebook, It took several books for him to go into suck-up mode.