Tip: Do not wear around neck

Washington Post, page 1 of the Sports section:
Cejudo Done Grappling With the Past
Freestyle Wrestler Puts Hardscrabble Life Behind Him, Wins 55-Kilogram Gold Medal

(This one's for all you heavy medal fans out there.)

It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood

Here's why lunch lasted 2 and a half hours. 15th and I streets NW? Say, that sounds remarkably like the front of my office.

But at least it was not an actual emergency. The all-clear came 45 minutes ago, and to look outside my office window now, you wouldn't know anything happened.

Which doesn't mean it wasn't nerve-racking.

This is Not from The Onion

This is a real headline from the Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz:

"Two Jews and a Black Man Help Phelps Fulfill Olympic Dream"

It's not the U.S. News and World Reports rankings, but . . .

. . . the University of Florida is ranked as the #1 party school in the country.

I am so proud.

How bad are the Nationals?

Well, apart from the fact that they have now lost 9 in a row, they are the punchline of baseball jokes.

Illinois' Twin Cities in the news

My hometown of Bloomington-Normal has been in the news the past couple days, one story cool and the other really not cool.

The FAIL blog

Thanks to Collarbone High for pointing this out today.