Cruz-ing the web
Sen. Ted Cruz’s unfavorable likening of net neutrality to Obamacare caused a stir earlier this week. Yes, like helping the poor pay for health care, the free and equal flow of information is an insidious threat to freedom! But if net neutrality fails, it might at least take longer for Cruz to tweet. There’s always a silver lining.
Going Rogue
What a maverick! In all seriousness, the swift kick in the ass that was the midterms seemed to spur President Obama into action, perhaps by making it clear he’s either reached or near rock bottom. But hey, if making important climate agreements and taking a stand on net neutrality is rock bottom, we’ll take it.
Amateur hour
Movember
‘Tis the season to grow out one’s facial hair — and if you’re participating in Movember, you’re also raising awareness for men’s health issues. It might not be the most appealing advertisement, but it’s caught our attention. We’re only 13 days in, but we’re already too aware of how few of us can really pull off a ‘stache.
RIP Zoboomafoo
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This might be one of the only times we’ll shed a tear for anything even peripherally related to Duke, but we will miss Zoboomafoo, the fun-loving lemur who found his home at the Duke Lemur Center. The star, whose real name was Jovian, passed away Monday at the ripe old age of 20 from kidney failure.
To infinity!
We landed on a comet! Or at least, the European Space Agency did. This is some real tortoise-and-the-hare poetry, folks. Remember how we were putting folks on the moon 45 years ago? Now we’re reduced to applauding from the sidelines as someone else lands an unmanned rover on an oversized ice pellet.
