SHORT TAKES ON THE DRIFTING WRECKAGE – AT 9:16 P.M. ET: 

GREAT EDUCATIONAL IDEA – From CBS:  "A Florida high school wants to set a dress code for parents.  Broward County School Board member Dr. Rosalind Osgood brought up the idea during a meeting after noticing parents dropping their kids off at Boyd Anderson High School while wearing saggy pants that exposes their underwear and curlers in their hair.  'We have dads showing up in sagging pants,' Osgood said, according to the Sun Sentinel. 'It’s hard for me to tell a child not to show up for school with hair curlers, pajamas or short shorts if they see parents wearing them. Parents need to lead by example.'"  What a radical, revolutionary idea.  Watch.  The left will claim that this constitutes oppression of the parent class.

PROGRESS? – From London's Telegraph:  "Rising numbers of infants lack the motor skills needed to play with building blocks because of an 'addiction' to tablet computers and smartphones, according to teachers.
Many children aged just three or four can 'swipe a screen' but have little or no dexterity in their fingers after spending hours glued to iPads, it was claimed.  Members of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers also warned how some older children were unable to complete traditional pen and paper exams because their memory had been eroded by overexposure to screen-based technology.  They called on parents to crack down on tablet computer use and even turn off wi-fi at night to address the problem."  I wonder if this will affect the physical ability to vote.  It won't matter to Dems, of course, as they use the dearly departed.

HISTORICAL OUTRAGE – From AFP:  "Sydney (AFP) - A lock of Napoleon Bonaparte's hair and other 'priceless' artefacts linked to the French emperor have been stolen from a museum in Australia, police said Tuesday.  Burglars broke into the building on Victoria state's Mornington Peninsula, south of Melbourne, in what was believed to be a targeted robbery.  'The offender(s) have jemmied open cabinets inside and stolen numerous priceless antiques,' a police statement said.  'The stolen items included a ring and (a glass frame) containing Napoleon's hair, a ribbon inscribed by Napoleon in 1815 and a snuff box.'"  At least they didn't get his iPhone.

WHITE HOUSE PETTINESS – From the Daily Caller:  "Neurosurgeon Ben Carson says the White House wanted him to apologize for 'offending' President Obama after he famously delivered a conservative message at the National Prayer Breakfast last year.  Carson, the former director of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital, recalls the events surrounding his 2013 speech in his new book, One Nation: What We Can All Do To Save America’s Future. The Daily Caller obtained an advance copy of the book, which is set for release May 20.  'He did not appear to be hostile or angry,' Carson writes of Obama, 'but within a matter of minutes after the conclusion of the program, I received a call from some of the prayer breakfast organizers saying that the White House was upset and requesting that I call the president and apologize for offending him. I said that I did not think that he was offended and that I didn’t think that such a call was warranted.'"  Chicago politics in the White House.  Dr. Ben responded appropriately.

April 15, 2015