Saturday Good Writing #4

Slacktivist reminds me of my mom (in a good way) in A Game For Goats.

Jeanne D’Arc writes so many good posts, but Old Jokes really struck me:

In 1959, a British movie could build a joke on the idea that the most powerful country in the world had standards that limited its power. My daughter still thinks that’s funny. Apparently, I’ve over-protected her, because she still lives in a world in which good guys refuse to do bad things. To me, the joke makes no sense anymore. It comes from a world we no longer live in.

danah boyd posted a party invitation sent out by friends that includes a timetable of events to assist guests with planning their arrival time.

Heather writes about parenting the child she actually has in You can’t always get what you want:

Eric Ringham helps out Kansans in How intelligent is your design?.

And finally, as Sour Duck’s Link Blog put it, a “shockingly-named” blog had a funny bit on the See Error Club. I just can’t bring myself to use the name of the blog due to my fears about what my search engine referral traffic would look like for the next few months. There aren’t many words in this entry, but I’m calling it good writing anyway because they’re used so well.