* I'm only adding this line on top of what I really want to say here so that I don't feel like since this post is under 140 characters it is Twitter material instead of speaking, emailing, or posting material. The solution I had chosen for this media conflict, or in other words, the "Twitter sucks in all" trend, is to simply write a longer message. How is that for a pragmatic's cure? Incidently, I find it truly debilitating that North Korea twitted that it hoped that the world would be consistent in its reaction to S.K's attempted sattelite launch. And now to the gist:

Y has his first academic publication! It's a book chapter!