Friday Links

1. I hadn’t even heard of Jan Todd before this! Jan Todd May Be the Reason You’re Lifting Weights

2. This column from a Harvard student to Secretary of Education Linda McMahon is withering and amazing, down to the title (“Come At Me, Bro“):

Maybe it’s because I didn’t get married at 17, or because I’ve never witnessed my husband get his head shaved by Donald Trump on national television, or because my pedagogical experience leans more front-of-classroom, rather than distributing-bookmarks-featuring-scantily-clad-lady-wrestlers. Some way or another, I’ve never been quite able to figure out how you think.

Until now.

Secretary, you spent nearly three decades as a WWE executive, where you orchestrated such spectacles as “The Undertaker vs. Kane: WrestleMania XIV” and “WWF Badd Blood: In Your House.” Suffice to say, you respect a good fight. And thus I say: Come at me, bro.

 

3. Nothing like a little Ram Dass to remind me to stop spiraling about the near future of my job or buying a new house: