the missing link

The Tally Ho blog got picked up by The Gawker. Gawker suggests that Saturday Night Live writers might read Harper's. This overlooks the obvious -- that SNL writers read the Tally Ho. And just how did Gawker find Tally Ho?

turtles all the way down

from the internet:

Early in this century the philosopher, William James, after delivering a lecture on the solar system, was approached by an elderly lady with a theory that she considered superior to his own.

"We don't live on a ball rotating around the sun," she asserted.

"We live on a crust of earth on the back of a giant turtle."

Rather than confront the lady with scientific evidence, James took a gentle, inquiring approach.

"If your theory is correct, madam, what does this turtle stand on?"

"You're a very clever man, Mr. James, and that's a good question, but I can answer it. The first turtle stands on the back of a second, far larger, turtle."

"And what does this second turtle stand on?" James probed patiently.

The old lady crowed triumphantly: "It's no use, Mr. James, it's turtles all the way down!"

So it's turtles all the way down.