It’s not good for my blood pressure to think too much about Karl Rove. Surely he will beat me to retirement.
Here are some remains of the day:
* A high school girl is kicked out of her Christian Homeschoolers’ prom because the fathers of her classmates couldn’t stop ogling her. Kind of a parable.
* Digby takes us down memory lane with a fine compilation of the “impaired” utterances of the president served by Karl Rove.
* At TNR. Emily Atkin reminds us the scary news about melting Antarctic ice and sea levels is just the tip, so to speak, of the iceberg.
* At Ten Miles Square, Julia Azari points to the period from 2000-2004 as the key “inflection point” in the current atmosphere of intense partisan polarization. Makes sense to me.
* At College Guide, Jill Barshay reports on a new study showing that leading experiments in measuring teacher contributions to student achievement are flunking every available test.
And in non-political news:
* New study shows that short (under 5-foot-2) men live longer. Yeah, but Randy Newman says they got no reason to live.
That’s it for Tuesday. We’ll close with one more Tedeschi Trucks tune: “Midnight in Harlem,” which begins with Derek Trucks playing what sounds like slide sitar.
Selah.
