Well…

Look,  I know.  It is kind of sad that Hostess is going out of business.  I realize now that I took it for granted that Twinkies and Cupcakes would always be there in the bodega, looming over the marginally healthier peanut-butter and oat bars, begging me to buy one and enjoy a delectable wave of confectionery nostalgia.  It’s true that the first bite of a Hostess cupcake immediately feels like being 11 years old again.  As an adult I’d often buy them and peel the top off, holding the chocolate (sic) skin by my fingertips and eating  it as one might savor an exotic treat from some distant, cloudy utopia.  The right is blaming the unions, the left has pointed out that senior level salaries were up an astonishing 300%  before the precipitous fall of this grocery store Oedipus.  Either way Hostess is merely another penny tossed into the well of American history.  It wasn’t so long ago when Montgomery Wards folded.  It was only in the last two years that Kodak collapsed.  Wards, Kodak, Hostess…Romney.  A whole bizarre version of America is being swallowed by the maw and sucked down into the dark, endless gullet of ontic non-being.  Very few freshman in your classroom ever rolled down a window in a car or used the phone book either.  In the end our loss of Hostess treats will only make them sweeter than they ever could have been.  Our hearts will be tender while our pancreases soldier on, newly unburdened — sadder but wiser.

Speaking of Mitt Romney (for what I pray will be the last time, so help me), Mittens reappeared in the news this week to mollify beleaguered b/millionaires still smarting from money misspent.  Romney blamed his loss on Obama’s cunning Secret Santa Strategy , wherein he bribed the poor, the young and the not whites with delectable government incentives.   Tony Picciano shared some thoughts on poor losers that deserve a nod.  Though I’m not entirely sure I believe it, it’s worth noting that hacker group Anonymous announced that they foiled a Romney/Rove plot to steal Ohio this election.  He did seem awfully upset at Fox on election night.

The Commons’ own WordPress savant, Dom, was blogging this week about what is a Child Theme in the WordPress universe.  This is an exceptional post for those of you interesting in the platform that helps support the CUNY Academic Commons.  Considering how pervasive WP is out there on the internet this is a handy post to read and come back to from time to time.

It’s been an extraordinarily busy week at the Commons with an even busier week ahead.  So with that I think we’ll wrap it up here.

Till next week.