Thanks to the end of Microsoft's support for Windows XP, I was forced to buy a new 'puter. 

It's installed and working fine.  The new one, that is.  It uses Windows 8.1, I think, but I can configure the desktop to look like Windows 7 so that I can use the damn thing.  Paying for it is next on the agenda. 

Why do I always feel broke?

I caught the back end of an interview on NPR this morning.  Presumably, it was Marin Alsop, musical director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra.  Because when I followed the instructions of the interviewer and went to www.npr.org/music for the interviewee's essay on Mahler's First, here's where I landed.

Enjoy.

That's the title of an 11-minute video that has gone viral on YouTube. 

Imagine a world in which one sex is oppressed by the other, in which you can't dress attractively and walk down a city street without enduring wolf whistles and degrading comments and disgusting sexual innuendos.

You say we already live in such a world?  Yes, but imagine if the roles were reversed.  We live in a world where most cops are men and most of the victims of sexual assaults -- verbal or physical -- are women.

French filmmaker Eléonore Pourriat has created a video that shows what a world would look like where male and female stereotypes are switched.

It's a brilliant series of vignettes.  A househusband is taking his young 'un out for a walk in its stroller, and drops the toddler off at a day-care center run by another househusband.  Later, he is harassed by lecherous women in the streets, then attacked physically, then has to undergo the mortification of being interrogated at the police station by a female officer when he tried to report the sexist assault.

It's an awesome look at who we are, and who we shouldn't be.

View "The Oppressed Majority" HERE.

There's a lot of truth in this piece by Gregg Doyel of CBS Sports.

I just made plans for Masters Sunday that don't include watching the Masters.  Unreal.