February 2012
26 posts
lazuli bunting →
I just wanted to write “lazuli bunting” a couple times
“Madness and misery exist but they come in many shapes and sizes. We risk...”
– David Pilgrim on the new DSM-V
“This is the axe my grandfather made.
My father replaced the handle,
and I...”
– Proverb
uh oh →
“I don’t get Rick Santorum.”
– Donald Trump
amyloid beta-mediated primary phagocytosis of... →
with video!
this is a weird story →
related
this and this sure are
“I sometimes wonder how my life would have been different had I gone to Boston.”
– Callista Gingrich
“Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous ‘I don’t know’.”
– Wislawa Szymborska
what we've been reading
The End of Wall Street As They Knew It by Gabriel Sherman
Solitude and Leadership by William Deresiewicz
The Epidemic of Mental Illness by Marcia Angell
How to Land Your Kid in Therapy by Lori Gottlieb
The Bioterrorist Next Door by Laurie Garrett
The Mystery Behind Anesthesia by Courtney Humphries
Watch
“I promise you we’re going to show up Sunday. So, we’ll be there. Let’s hope that...”
– Deion Branch
clearly...
Matt Soniak doesn’t read Bill Easterly. Go Pats!
vaccine sanity from the American Academy of... →
Zimbabwean mermaids →
“Like his colleagues in the faculty lounge who think they know better, President...”
– Mitt Romney
January 2012
53 posts
crooks →
“Would you rather live in a weak state or a state that is literally trying to...”
– Lee Crawfurd takes The Guardian to task over opportunity costs in South Sudan. Relatedly, there is now an updated version of the Johnson County War in the Warrap State.
“It would take you 154 years 8 months 20 days 21 hours 14 minutes and 19 seconds...”
– Slate’s Romney Income Calculator is sort of bumming me out
boxed in
INGRAHAM: You’ve also noted that there are signs of improvement on the horizon in the economy. How do you answer the president’s argument that the economy is getting better in a general election campaign if you yourself are saying it’s getting better?
ROMNEY: Well, of course it’s getting better. The economy always gets better after a recession, there is always a recovery. […]
INGRAHAM: Isn’t it a hard argument to make if you’re saying, like, OK, he inherited this recession, he took a bunch of steps to try to turn the economy around, and now, we’re seeing more jobs, but vote against him anyway? Isn’t that a hard argument to make? Is that a stark enough contrast?
ROMNEY: Have you got a better one, Laura? It just happens to be the truth.
“By the end of my second term, we will have the first permanent base on the moon...”
– Newt
“I don’t get paid to miss field goals.”
– Billy Buckner Cundiff
“If it is right, it happens—The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets...”
– John Steinbeck (via rulesformyunbornson)
“Men fall face-down unconscious, women wander in the woods disconsolate and...”
– Excerpt from “Bourbon” by Walker Percy (h/t mills)
“I’ll start smoking again when I’m 80, I’m looking forward to...”
– Leonard Cohen
“The Wikipedia blackout presents a horrifying picture of a world with no...”
– Andy Daglas (via kateoplis)
“Eighty five percent all the gravity in the universe comes from something about...”
– Neil deGrasse Tyson on the dark matter problem
