It's been a while...

since my last post. I was in Hawai'i for ten days (yes, I am one fortunate human being) and before that work had pretty much engulfed my life.

I'll be posting a proper blog later this week, but in the meantime, why not enjoy this classic clip from Stephen Colbert's The Colbert Report, with guests Sean Penn and poet Robert Pinsky, which first aired on April 19, 2007 and is just further proof that Stephen Colbert is the greatest thing since band-aids.

(I tried to embed the video, to no avail.)

So very proud

This is not the newest news out there, but one simply cannot overlook economist Paul Krugman's Nobel Prize. Besides being a leading voice in economics, Krugman writes a kick-ass opinion column for the NY Times and is generally adorable.

















Even Stephen Colbert felt it was noteworthy:



Congrats, Professor