The Swimming Pool Did It

A Polish woman has filed suit against an Egyptian hotel claiming that "stray sperm" in the hotel's swimming pool made her daughter pregnant. The London Paper reports a Polish travel industry source as saying, "The mother is adamant that her daughter didn't meet any boys while she was there and is determined to go ahead with the case."

The article concludes:

. . . legal minds will have to decide what is more likely – a medical miracle or a teenager lying to her mother to get out of trouble.

Another Paul Krugman Song

I thought it was unusual when I came across the first Paul Krugman song, but now Loudon Wainwright III (yes, father of Rufus) has one too. It must say something profound about our current era that people start writing songs about economists. I just don't have a clue what that is.