November 2011
October 2011
Probably not. →
stay classy, Bronx cops →
“Science has not changed the laws of social growth or betterment. Science has not...”
– Woodrow Wilson
RIP Daddy's →
Timeo Danaos et dona ferentēs →
“For the American people, the scenes of upheaval in the region may be unsettling,...”
– President Obama, May 19, 2011, NOT talking about #occupywallstreet
“…from 1979 to 2007, average inflation-adjusted after-tax income grew by...”
– CBO via NYT
am i the only one who thinks $0.45 is still a... →
obama's got a tumblr →
“This is cancer, for Pete’s sake. A vaccine against cancer was the dream of our...”
– Dr. William Schaffner, chairman of the department of preventive medicine at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
7,000,000,000 →
The first billion people accumulated over a leisurely interval, from the origins of humans hundreds of thousands of years ago to the early 1800s. Adding the second took another 120 or so years. Then, in the last 50 years, humanity more than doubled, surging from three billion in 1959 to four billion in 1974, five billion in 1987 and six billion in 1998. This rate of population increase has no...
“That’s what the commercial says, that legends are born in the postseason or...”
– C.J. Wilson, ”who faces Chris Carpenter in Game 5 on Monday, is the only pitcher to lose in the All-Star Game, the division series, the league championship series and the World Series in the same year.”
“If Alabama succeeds in driving out all of its estimated 120,000 unauthorized...”
– NYT
“But the best meal I had on the job? It was in the garden of Frankies 457, on...”
– Sam Sifton, for Hannah, Brooke and Andrew
“At this moment, when our politics appear so sharply polarized, faith in our...”
– President Obama
"a rash of relatively small indignities" →
more
still more
the movie
required reading →
“God did not create this country to be a nation of followers. America is not...”
– Mitt Romney
