January 2012
51 posts
“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
“The average American loves his family. If he has any love left over for some...”
– Thomas Edison
“oh no, he got snacked!”
– Huck, narrating the Broncos/Steelers game
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“Watching him try to figure it out is like if a bunch of elementary school kids...”
– Max Silvestri just made my lunch hour
i am the 1% →
“Everybody knows that too much debt caused this mess, but what they don’t...”
– Keith Fitz-Gerald, artfully defining “hypothecated assets” and scaring the crap out of me at the same time
“Over all subjects, a PhD commands only a 3% premium over a master’s degree.”
– The Economist on the value of a PhD
“What I know is if they do that, they’ll substitute envy for ambition, and...”
– Mitt Romney
