Know thy neighbor

Newsweek mentioned in this article a website that is now available to inform parents about sex offenders living in their neighborhoods. This site, mapsexoffenders.com worked well for me; it is free, requires no registration, and is very easy to use and includes the offenders' stats and photograph. They have 34 states mapped so far.

Baby got back, sort of

Apropos of nothing, for your amusement: here's the Regency version of Sire Mix-a-lot's song Baby Got Back (a song with lyrics that are not work safe; a song so vulgar the Thorpes of Northanger Abbey might like it).

Thanks to copperwise for the link.

Edited to add: And here's the Latin version.

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Poet

This seems to be the day for parodies. In appreciation of my earlier link with the Jane Austen rap song, cynthia1960 provided this link to a parody of T.S. Eliot's "The Wasteland." Thanks, cynthia1960!

Enjoy.

Really, I'm a Solemn and Serious Person who is usually above stuff like this. Except for today. When I'm not.