"I like to ask my kids interesting, but age appropriate, ethical and epistemological questions while we sit around the dinner table. Help me think of some more."

A great Ask Metafilter question. 

(I give an answer, using my Metafilter screen name, Alizaria.)

Do you/did you do things like this with your children?

Sailboats on Lake Monona, very free and easy...

Easy, like biking the Capital City bike trail...
Silver Madison skyline let me be...




We are leaving — you don't need us...

Let's judge old people in their bathing suits.

1. Giorgio Armani, 76, in a Speedo.

2. Jerry Hall, 54, in a tankini.

Judge!
	Old people can go swimming, but the question of how they look is a nonissue. They. Are. Old.
	Both of them look pretty decent for their age. Let's be charitable and encouraging.
	Giorgio looks great at 76 and wears a Speedo with elan. Jerry... blech.
	Jerry is fine, but an old guy in a Speedo? Horrible!
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IN THE COMMENTS: ironrailsironweights said:

It's amusing that two people who are a generation apart in age are being lumped together as "old."

Oh, yeah. Why did Althouse do that?
	Because "old" for women starts early.
	Because the Giorgio looks relatively good for his age and Jerry relatively bad.
	Because these are 2 photos that happened to pop up in the news today.
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"JOURNOLIST: A Vast White-Wing Conspiracy?"

Instapundit links to I Own The World's collection of the names and faces of Journolist. Glenn stresses whiteness, but I Own says "IT LOOKS MORE LIKE THE UPPER WEST SIDE OF MANHATTAN" and the commenters eventually — scroll halfway down — pick up that cue.

"A self-styled dork from Wisconsin is on a mission to become a real New York ladies' man...

"... by dating 30 women in 30 days, and sharing his exploits with the world."

Why did The Daily News cover this story?
	You can call him a dork and he looks like a dork, ha ha, check out the photo.
	He's from Wisconsin! He came to New York! Hilarity ensues.
	30 women in 30 days. A stunt. A stunt that gets us hot!
	They need stuff about the internet and this is popular on the internet so they saw it. Voila!
	The guy's website really is pretty cool.
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The website, Dating Brian, actually is pretty cool.

At the Cicada Café...

... the cicada's on her last legs, but I know you can keep things going around here.

Note the Japanese fishing net floats in the window box. A longer view, through the pennisetum...

"Treat Me Like Your Mother Or I'll Eat the Sun."

The title of a drawing in an art show by Frances Bean Cobain, who will turn 18 next month and by so doing get her hands on a tremendous amount of money.