I stayed up to watch the Daily Show and the Colbert Report last night and was really glad I did. John Stewart interviewed the Bolivian president Evo Morales, who just seems like a really great guy. He talked about redistributing wealth and he questioned the role of developed nations in global warming and he just seemed really sincere and nice and funny. At the end of the interview he said something like “Please don’t include me in the axis of evil.” So I can totally see why we are supposed to hate him.

K. David Harrison wrote the book When Languages Die, which was recently covered in the New York Times and elsewhere.  I love how he talked about languages as repositories for ancient knowledge. And, for an academic, he was really cute and well dressed.