A Potty Museum

From Atlas Obscura -

Museum of Historical Chamber Pots and Toilets
Dedicated to the unsung history of human waste.

There is a small museum in Prague, not far from the Vltava River, that is truly a celebration of “form follows function.” In its collection of historical chamber pots and toilets there is a wide array of forms, all for one bodily function (or maybe two).

http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/museum-of-historical-chamber-pots-and-toilets

Magic Panties

Thank God, I'm way pass the point of needing these, but for those who still have monthly visits from Aunt Flo, these specially formulated panties may be just the thing.

https://www.shethinx.com

Same Deals

From the Wall Street Journal via Apple News -

Black Friday’s Inside Secret: Same Deals Every Year
Circulars from retailers like Target, Best Buy and Wal-Mart repeat products, prices from holidays past  
By SUZANNE KAPNER

Shoppers who missed out on $97 Beats headphones, a $99 Nikon camera and other Black Friday deals last year needn’t worry. Chances are those same items will be on sale again this year—for the same price.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/black-fridays-inside-secret-same-deals-every-year-1478008801

Black Cowboys

An interesting article on black cowboys, then and now.

From The Undefeated -

Fred Whitfield and the Black Cowboys of Rodeo
The champion calf-roper is a legend and an outlier
BY PAUL WACHTER

The cowboy is an iconic American figure and in popular mythology almost always a white one. For every Django or Ned Logan (Morgan Freeman’s character in Unforgiven) there are hundreds of white gunslingers. But of the “estimated thirty-five thousand cowboys that worked the ranches and rode the trails between 1866 and 1895, researchers have calculated that the number of black cowboys ranged from five thousand to nine thousand, with the high number representing 25 percent,” wrote Tricia Martineau Wagner, an author of several books about the West, in Black Cowboys of the Old West.

http://theundefeated.com/features/fred-whitfield-and-the-black-cowboys-of-rodeo/

College Rankings

An excerpt from the New York Times -

How to Make Sense of College Rankings
By Frank Bruni

“You can slice and dice it any way you like, but this isn’t like Consumer Reports, which tests something to see if it does or doesn’t work,” he said. “The interaction between a student and an institution is not the same as the interaction between a student and a refrigerator.” - Willard Dix

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/30/opinion/sunday/how-to-make-sense-of-college-rankings.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-right-region&region=opinion-c-col-right-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-right-region

A Black Cubs Fan?

An excerpt from the Undefeated -

AS A BLACK CUBS FAN, I UNDERSTAND HISTORY AND I’M STILL HOPEFUL
Despite Chicago’s sports and racial history, we believe yes we can!
BY MICHAEL STRAUTMANIS

“I think we were the only black people there,” my wife said as we were leaving Wrigley Field a few weeks ago. The sentence jarred me a bit, first because it interrupted my reverie after experiencing a rare Cubs playoff victory, and second, because it forced me to realize, once again, that I am a member of a small club. Yes, I am a black Chicago Cubs fan.

http://theundefeated.com/features/as-a-black-cubs-fan-i-understand-history-and-im-still-hopeful/

Bryant Gumbel on Domestic Violence in NFL: Real Sports (HBO)

Liberal Redneck - An Appeal to Sanity

Crazy!

From People -

Utah Dad Spends $1,500 on 3-Year-Old Daughter’s ‘Wonder Woman’ Halloween Costume to Spread Message That ‘Girls Can Do Anything’

http://people.com/human-interest/utah-dad-spends-1500-on-3-year-old-daughters-wonder-woman-halloween-costume/

Priceless

From The Wrap -

NY Post Whips Out ‘Dickileaks’ Puns About Anthony Weiner ‘Stroking Gun’

http://www.thewrap.com/ny-post-cover-dubs-clintons-latest-mess-dikileaks/

Urban Planning

I've always found this an interesting subject.

From Wired -

16 Ways to Design a Better Intersection—And Better Cities
By TIM DE CHANT

https://www.wired.com/2016/10/how-to-design-better-cities/?mbid=nl_102816_p1&CNDID=

Why Americans with disabilities struggle to vote

Welcome to Aviation High School

Where White Guys Are the Minority

From the Undefeated -

WHERE ARE ALL THE WHITE AMERICAN NBA PLAYERS?
The league’s white players talk about what it’s like to be the minority
By Marc J. Spears

http://theundefeated.com/features/white-american-nba-players/

Sad CT

From The New Yorker -

CLARENCE THOMAS’S TWENTY-FIVE YEARS WITHOUT FOOTPRINTS
By Jeffrey Toobin

This month marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of Clarence Thomas’s confirmation to the Supreme Court. Conservatives like Thomas have dominated the Court throughout his tenure, and he has been in the majority in all of their victories. That raises a question: What’s the most important opinion Thomas has written for the majority during his tenure on the Court?

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The truth is that Rehnquist and Roberts never trusted Thomas to write an opinion in a big case that could command a majority of even his conservative colleagues.

Why was this? It is because Thomas is not a conservative but, rather, a radical—one whose entire career on the Court has been devoted to undermining the rules of precedent in favor of his own idiosyncratic interpretation of the Constitution.

http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/clarence-thomass-twenty-five-years-without-footprints

Please Elect My Husband

http://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2016/10/26/gerald-daugherty-campaign-ad-moos-pkg-erin.cnn

A Picture is Worth . . .

From Upworthy -

17 stunning photos of black Victorians show how history really looked.
By Thom Dunn

http://www.upworthy.com/17-stunning-photos-of-black-victorians-show-how-history-really-looked?c=upw1&u=6861cbea6edfdfe5a709ee39ad3c14b64135e61f

Mesmerizing Movement

From Wired -

Watch This Mesmerizing Sculpture Morph Like a Flock of Birds
By Liz Stinson

Diffusion Choir from Sosolimited on Vimeo.

https://www.wired.com/2016/10/watch-mesmerizing-sculpture-morph-like-flock-birds/?mbid=nl_102616_p8&CNDID=#slide-3

Black Jeopardy with Tom Hanks - SNL

The Pipeline Problem