A very happy Halloween was had by all

[conuly]

Special points to the trick or treaters who were much more interested in birdwatching than getting candy. And lots of special points to this amazing kid, who has the best costume ever.

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Let’s Overanalyze Fun

What Math Looks Like in the Mind

Shrinking the world: why we can't resist model villages

America’s favourite pencil maker Dixon Ticonderoga blurs line of where it manufactures: in the US, Mexico or China?

America Isn’t the ‘Only Country’ With Birthright Citizenship

My Husband Doesn’t Want Me to Be a Firefighter

The Last Puerto Rican Social Club in Brooklyn

How Yellow Fever Turned New Orleans Into The 'City Of The Dead'

The Civil War massacre that left nearly 200 black soldiers ‘murdered’

A century on from WW1, 100 years of work remains to clear munitions

Eight Myths Americans Need to Unlearn About America

College Sports Are Affirmative Action for Rich White Students

Their Land Defiled, Forest People Swap Flower Worship for Quran and Concrete

‘The SOS in my Halloween decorations’

Guns send over 8,000 US kids to ER each year, analysis says

A Look Into the Evidence That 'Lone Wolf' Terrorists Are a Pack

EPA quietly telling states they can pollute more (Oh, wonderful. I don't know about you, but I hate my lungs. Breathing is so overrated.)

Trump’s Corruption: The Definitive List

The Military’s Justification for Sending Thousands of Troops to the Border Is the Opposite of the Truth

When #MeToo Came to Ancient Rome

A Fate Worse Than Slavery, Unearthed in Sugar Land

Comments

[siderea]

Wait, what happened to Nov 1 and 2?

[conuly]

Those have entries!

I hate having blank spots in my calendar, and posting ahead of time is slightly more efficient than going around after the fact and editing the dates.

[wpadmirer]

Glad you had a good Halloween. Every year I put our house on the local map, but I haven't yet gotten any trick or treaters. It makes me sad, as I love to see little kids in costumes.

The story about math, the firefighter, and the SOS note were all interesting!

[conuly]

The map?

[wpadmirer]

There's a neighborhood mail list thing where you can add your house to the map of places giving out candy. Even though I mark our house, we never get trick or treaters.

[conuly]

Huh.

[bibliofile]

I loved that RBG kid! Though Ruth Vader Ginsburg was a close second.

[conuly]

True.

[redsixwing]

Great list of links. That RBG costume is amazing.

I have some thoughts about modeling and the sense of alienation, but I'm not managing to words it just now.

[conuly]

It'll come.

[agoodwinsmith]

Thank you for showing me "The Notorious RBG". That is brilliant. :)

[smokingboot]

Fabulous! Give her all the candy!