A man who made me laugh AND cry today

I spent most of the day glued to my monitor because of a writer whom I've recently become aware of.  His name is Gene Weingarten.  He is a writer for the Washington Post and recently won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for a piercing article he wrote on parents who fatally leave their children in a hot car (Washington Post article).  He also did an interesting experiment on our (in)ability to perceive beauty in the every-day while mired in the hustle bustle of the every-day (Joshua Bell experiment).

Those two articles alone provided me with hours worth of reading and sidebar researching.  He had me crying in some places and laughing in others.

In the "laughing" catagory, may I serve up for your viewing pleasure:  The Westinghouse Diet.  I found that while trucking through Eric Shansby's website which does the editorial cartoons for Weingarten's humorist column.

It too left me in tears....

but only because I was laughing so hard that I could barely stand it.  :)