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The Onion’s AV Club checks out some songwriters who aren’t really into the details. :) Link courtesy of EdCone.com

Rep. Curt Weldon (R-Pa.) is running against a retired Navy admiral for reelection and has taken a curious tack in his campaigning. You see, retired Admiral Joe Sestak has a five-year-old daugher who had brain cancer. She went through chemotherapy in Washington, D.C., and was recently pronounced in remission. Apparently, this somehow offends Representative Weldon, who wants to make an issue of the fact the Sestaks’ daughter was treated in Washington, rather than Philadelphia or Delaware. ...

Hmmm…Apple just made it a lot more likely I’ll get a Mac in the future. I’ve been wanting to try OS X out for a while, but the thought of having to pick which box I’m going to install software on was annoying. Link courtesy of alexking.org

Duke President Richard Brodhead sent a message out yesterday to everyone involved with Duke University regarding the University’s response to the terrible events of March 13. He lists five initiatives Duke will be taking to address the problems that have come to light: Investigation of men’s lacrosse, in regards to past patterns of behavior. Investigation of the Duke Administration response to the rape investigation. Examination of student judicial process and practices. Establishing a Campus Culture Initiative to discuss student responsibility. Establishing a Presidential Council for higher-level advice. Here’s a link to the full letter. ...

I was so hoping this story from the Akron Beacon-Journal was an April Fools joke, but it looks like it just happens to involve fools in April. The gist of the story is that five teenage girls went around Ravenna, Ohio, and placed gift-wrapped boxes modelled after blocks in Super Mario Bros. The boxes were wrapped in gold paper with question marks. Sadly enough, in these times, that’s apparently enough to get someone to call out the Bomb Squad. It’s also may be enough for criminal charges. (I hope they’re talking about littering.) ...

Former Majority Leader Tom Delay is stepping down from the U.S. House of Representatives, after a scandal-plagued couple of years. Maybe now he’ll go around the country, speaking at conservative gatherings, telling everyone the main problem with this country is corrupt politicians. By the way, pardon the colloquialism, but “w00t!” :) Update: Explanation of w00t!

Comics Should Be Good has a list of goofy moments from the first ten issues of Marvel Comics’ Fantastic Four. Personally, I like this line: “You are worthy of me, female! In every way!” :)

Tyler Hansbrough of UNC, and J.J. Redick and Shelden Williams of Duke, were unanimous picks for the All-Conference team in ACC men’s basketball. Hansbrough is the first freshman in ACC history to earn a unanimous selection. UNC’s David Noel and Reyshawn Terry also made the second and third teams, respectively, giving UNC more All-ACC players than any other school. Pretty good, when you’re picked to finish sixth. :)

I probably won’t write much about Friday’s attack on UNC’s campus, except to note how thankful I am that no one was killed. My capacity for being surprised by the evil things that people do is sadly diminished after a few decades of living on this Earth, but my capacity for understanding hasn’t increased enough to really get why people do them. What I will say is this: No matter what reason he drove a Jeep through a popular campus gathering spot, Mohammed Reza Taheri-azar could not have known who was going to be in front of his car. He didn’t know their thoughts or feelings about him, or the things that concerned him. He didn’t know where they had come from or where they were going. He didn’t know about their ambitions or fears or loves. Either he was incapable of caring about those people as individual humans; or he didn’t care; or he cared, and still decided it didn’t matter enough. In the end, they were treated as objects of lesser value than his goal. And this was by a graduate of the same school’s programs in psychology and philosophy? ...

It was a good day for politics and furniture in the Democratic People’s Republic: Kim Jong Il Highly Praised by Russian Poet Koreans Will Surely Force Japan to Pay for Monstrous Crimes Committed against Them U.S. Ambassador’s Endless String of Reckless Remarks under Fire Quality Stone Furniture Produced Kim Jong Il Sends Wedding Table to Kye Sun Hui Courtesy of NK News