September 2009
newts! →
poor uganda →
WatchFrom our week 32 baby newsletter: “Your baby may already be on the go, creeping and wriggling backward or forward on his belly. Sometime around the eighth month, he may begin true crawling, pushing up on his knees and elbows or hands and feet, and rocking backward and forward. This exercise will involve a few flops and falls, but your baby’s drive to move is so strong he won’t be...
October Baseball! →
how disappointing →
“Knowing how things work is the basis for appreciation, and is thus a source of...”
– R.I.P. William Safire
no wonder I couldn't get into Harvard! →
shhh! don't tell my boss i'm a writer. →
Massa-chew-setts! →
“He tore up a copy of the UN charter in front of startled delegates, accused the...”
– The Guardian on Muammar Gaddafi’s speech to the UN General Assembly
“We’re beating the cat, and when you say, ‘Why are you beating the cat?’ you say,...”
– Rory Stewart on the Obama Administration’s AfPak strategy
good morning, internet. you're so wonderful. →
my boy will be an astrophysicist →
WatchCool Ad Watch via Andrew Sullivan
“Too often, we think of government as a kind of vending machine. We put in our...”
– Tim O’Reilly (via thememegeneration)
Portland! →
sox in S.F. in 2010! brother, we're coming! →
“I can’t say more about the kicker. He was all awkwardly bent up, like a...”
– Pierre Woods on Stephen Gostkowski’s fumble recovery
“The protestors keep saying that they want their country back. Sorry, my fellow...”
– Andrew Sullivan
really, ESPN? →
RIP Norman Borlaug →
