Erotomania

I knew a woman once who was convinced a pianist of her acquaintance was secretly in love with her: the content and order of the pieces in his programs were coded, secret messages to her, surreptitiously expressing his love until he could do so openly.

CNN suspects Melania Trump is secretly in love with them, choosing her wardrobe and transportation as coded, secret messages to them, expressing her love until she can do so openly.

The tide is turning

Joe Katzman

I don't know who he is, but this is a brilliant insight, sharply put:

Maybe that’s because American public education is now a 20-year Milgram Experiment. Where the meta-message inside political correctness is to override your own judgement, in favor of deliberately-shifting judgments from people with higher status.

Thousands Dead in New Orleans

A Perfect 10

Catherine Deneuve.

Kinda Cool

Here

Quote of the year — 2017

The problem, of course, is that the places that have obsessively run those stories for the past year aren’t really news outfits—not anymore. They are in the aromatherapy business.

Lee Smith

Louis Anquetin

Avenue de Clichy

The Great Stupiding

continues.

Leopard

Spots.

Delphin Strungk

What a magnificent name for a composer.

Romanticizing Hunter-Gatherers

Analyzed here.

Fake News from Coyne

Here.

The NYT calls BS, as Althouse notes.  Coyne didn't just pass on the fake WaPo report, but cited “readers” and riffed on this. This is a portrait of a man with an impaired confirmation bias sensor.  Coyne is I think an honest guy, but he just lets his biases rule him sometimes.

Concerto for Piano and Flute Octet

Composed and performed by Jeroen van Veen.

“Police Department is Closed. Call 911 in case of an Emergency.”

Weinstein and Heying speak out on the future of WLU TESC.

Ban Rigor Mortis

And the other kinds too!

Happy Cow

Here

And now for something completely different.