Fashion gone wild? Or merely absurd?

Kanye West boorishly interrupted Taylor Swift's acceptance speech at the MTV video music awards: VMAs. You can see the video linked here. I was watching the video and I was impressed with Mr. West's low standard of behavior coincident with likely high level of alcohol-intoxication, but my biggest question arose during viewing the video: what is the outfit above? What is it trying to prove? Who is that? How desperate for attention? (Successful here I guess).

Serial degrees for adults, taxpayers' expense.

I had a patient in the other day with 2 postgraduate degrees (and currently working on a third), in mid-40s, not currently working, and anticipating "loan forgiveness" entitlements per the new president.
 
At some point people must become "adults". I wouldn't so much mind obtaining degrees for the sake of obtaining degrees if one would be responsible for paying back loans and grants accrued along the way.

surprising Skype; works too well on webpages; call the rich and famous? No

I've been using latest Skype, version
4.1.0.141; and while reading a webpage I noticed that the baseball pitcher Randy Johnson's name had a little green telephone next to it.

Usually I find a little green telephone for making calls on webpages next to telephone numbers. Apparently now Skype can scan the page and look for embedded telephone numbers?

Well not really. Turns out that Skype was able to cross-reference with my Outlook connections. I know a non-baseball player named Randy Johnson.

If I had pressed the "start call" button, I wouldn't have gotten the baseball player, rather my friend.

Beware of the super efficiency of new Skype, little bit misdirected.

Marquis Daniels tattoos

my favorite: Chinese characters on his arm which were apparently intended to represent his initials, but translate to English as “healthy woman roof’

Obama socialism joker, "beyond the pale", yet no fuss over the George W. Bush joker picture

Obama socialism joker, "beyond the pale", yet no fuss over the George W. Bush joker picture

"Yo-Yo Ma" or "Yo' Mama", Prof. Gates's confusing case

Here are the police reports detailing the confrontation last week between Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Cambridge police who were condemned last night by President Barack Obama for acting "stupidly" in arresting the African-American "scholar". Of the three protagonists here, Pres. Obama, Prof. Gates, and Ofc. Crowley, only one (the last) wasn't "acting "stupidly", in my view.

Police responded to Gates's house after neighbor reported spotting "two black males with backpacks" trying to gain entry to the home. Gates, returning home from a trip overseas, and his driver were contending with a stuck front door. Cambridge Police reports quote an incensed Gates yelling, "This is what happens to black men in America!," and, when asked by Ofc. Crowley to speak with him outside the residence, Gates replied, "ya, I'll speak with your mama outside." A disorderly conduct rap was filed against Gates.

Mr. Gates was returning from a trip {to China and the Far East, probably on a grant, thanks to your tax dollar}, where he was tracing the ancestry of musician Yo-Yo Ma.

I have figured out at least part of this misunderstanding. Perhaps Prof. Gates was hoping to introduce Ofc. Crowley to the famed cellist; and was simply misunderstood "I'll speak with yo' mama outside", or he misspoke his intended "I'll speak with Yo-Yo Ma outside"

By the way, Rich Lowry ponders the famous snapshot of the arrest, "there's a black cop prominently in the foreground. Doesn't that vitiate somewhat the idea that this was a flatly racist arrest?"