My students wanted to know if I’d cancel classes on Pi Day. I told them that would be irrational. I did expect them to arrange their desks in a circle, but that backfired when the students behind me started making funny noises, as in “fart under the arm” noises. I turned around and…. WHAP! Right out of the Three Stooges. God bless student loans.

And Yahweh bless birthdays, because today’s include a guy who wrote something that no-one read; a guy who was tempted but resisted; a guy famous as a wife-swapper; one of the heroes of the Progressive Left; a woman who drank because she got too much dick; a guy who was satisfied with being number two; the star of the very best Scorsese movie; the last intelligent liberal politician; and a guy who had the true Motown sound. I looked for some obscure chemists but couldn’t find any. Sorry, Pi, uhhhh, Pie.

And off to Links.

 

Wait, you mean a useless bullshit symbolic sop to the Far Left might be a dumb idea?

 

Am I being cynical to observe that this looks like total protectionist bullshit for some lobbyists?

 

Somebody needs to get whacked.

 

Weirdly commonsensical. Maybe because it’s not Manhattan?

 

He had evidence that would lead to the arrest and conviction of Hillary Clinton.

 

“Every time we tell him to do something idiotic, he says no. He’s a fascist!”

 

The shocking thing to me is that Salon still exists.

 

Jokes write themselves.

 

Old Guy Music is a fine rendition by a birthday boy of a Charlie Parker classic.