Backward Mutters

  • theonion: Area Child Disappointed To Learn Parents’ Love Unconditional

  • In short: Want a blossoming democracy today? The solution is simple—if you have a time machine: Send a 19th-century missionary. “The Surprising Discovery About Those Colonialist, Proselytizing, Missionaries” by Andrea Palpant Dilley

  • “They showed their true character.”

    Lots of discussion on the Richard Sherman rant at the end of the NFC Championship Game last Sunday which you can see here. For some history, there is the Skip Bayless confrontation last March here.  Here is this week’s ESPN First Take response to this weekend’s rant here. In addition, there is…

  • natgeofound: A dromedary camel and rider in the peach blossom festival in Fort Valley, Georgia, May 1925.Photograph by Jacob J. Gayer, National Geographic What day is it?

  • Since the early 1990s, the share of out-of-wedlock, cohabiting births has grown from 11 percent to 24 percent, while those to noncohabiting, single mothers has remained steady at 16 percent. Sometimes referred to as the “poor person’s marriage,” cohabitation is growing fastest among high school graduates with children. Between the…