Followups

* Claiming Loughner for the Other Side A pointed peck by Sparky the Penguin in the “This Modern World” cartoon

* The Endangered Tiger Mom. Amy Chua’s WSJ advice on raising kids went viral last week (remember, you heard it here first!). Notable reactions include Chua in the New York Times, backing off a bit. “In retrospect, these coaching suggestions seem a bit extreme,” she writes in the book after describing how she once threatened to burn her daughter’s stuffed animals if she did not play a piano composition perfectly. “On the other hand, they were highly effective.”. Betty Mingliu leads her reaction with, “Parents like Amy Chua are the reason why Asian-Americans like me are in therapy”, and (old friend) Larry Solomon gets called out by Philip Weiss for pointing out that Jews have won more Nobel Prizes than the Chinese, and suggesting maybe that’s why Chua married a Jewish man.