February 2012
3 posts
“One of the oldest criticisms of democracy is that the people will inevitably...”
– Even Critics of Safety Net Increasingly Depend on It - NYTimes.com
January 2012
3 posts
“25 January, 1936
San Fransisco, California
Dear Saroyan,
I note what you...”
– For Aspiring Editors
Boot Camp
I read many descriptions of Navy Boot Camp before I came. If any of the descriptions had focused on the fact I would be locked in a room with eighty or so eighteen year olds, I may not have done it.
But I did. Graduation was today, and tonight at midnight I leave for Baltimore for school. I’ll be there for six months, and then… Who knows?
To all my friends and family, thank you for...
October 2011
9 posts
1 tag
Back to School Special →
For the parents out there…
Decades Old Calvin and Hobbes Strip Succinctly... →
via Daring Fireball
Serge Voronoff, real-life mad scientist.
jessnevins:
Here’s some excerpts from the Wikipedia page:
“gained fame for his technique of grafting monkey testicle tissue on to the testicles of men for purportedly therapeutic purposes”
“Voronoff injected himself under the skin with extracts from ground-up dog and guinea pig testicles”
“His first official transplantation of a monkey gland into a human took place on June 12, 1920”
...
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Last American Who Knew What The Fuck He Was Doing... →
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“There is a nice story about Demetrius: an old woman repeatedly asked for a...”
– Dividing the spoils : the war for Alexander the Great’s empire/Robin Waterfield.
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“[Conservatives believe] that individual initiative and private philanthropy will...”
– I’ll let you guess if this was from seventy years ago or yesterday.
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“But Antigenes compensated with a nice coup just before the battle. He sent some...”
– Dividing the spoils : the war for Alexander the Great’s empire/Robin Waterfield.
September 2011
9 posts
5 tags
A Homeless City in the Woods →
The camp looks something like the scene of an extended hunting trip, but it is in fact a homeless encampment—possibly the largest in the tri-state area, not that any governmental body has bothered to keep track. Some call it Cedar Bridge, after the nearest paved road.
I like this lady
Did ex-Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz just forfeit $10 million by calling fellow board members “doofuses”?
Yes. That’s kind of awesome.
“On July 4 1971, after being inspired by a free printed copy of the U.S....”
– Obituary for Michael S. Hart - Gutenberg
“In keeping with the notion of “last-place aversion”, the people who were a spot...”
– Economics focus: Don’t look down | The Economist
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More from 1493
“Merchants were pirates, pirates were merchants,” Lin Renchuan, a historian at Xiamen University, told me. They would trade peacefully if they could; not so peacefully if they couldn’t.
Talking about Ming Dynasty China, but that would also be a good description of the Vikings.
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“Each emperor produced coins with his name stamped on the face. When he died, the...”
– 1493, Charles Mann
August 2011
23 posts
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“The earth, he [Christopher Columbus] argued, was not perfectly round but “in the...”
– 1493, by Charles Mann
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Bernancke Is Thinking Long Run →
Sigh.
“The problem for Hutchison is that the energy in the Republican party today is...”
– http://www.texasmonthly.com/cms/printthis.php?file=feature.php&issue=2010-02-01
Lost States: Loophole land—where crimes can't be... →
The Odd Behavior of a Husband Arrested for a D.C.... →
Muth was known for strange habits in person and online, where he blogged under the name Sheikh Ali Al-Muthaba. He reportedly told neighbors he was a general in the Iraqi army, a claim the Iraqi embassy denied. According to the Post, “Muth also would sometimes walk around his neighborhood in a military uniform, carrying a swagger stick.” A native of Germany, Muth described his...
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““You said Huey [Long] was the second most dangerous person, didn’t you?” he [Rex...”
– Traitor to His Class, Brand
“George Carlin could say in a sentence what it took us three and a half minutes...”
– Jon Stewart, The Daily Show
Anonymous asked: <p>Was the 2004 electon stolen?</p>
Second? I'd have thought fourth or fifth.
MINNEAPOLIS/WASHINGTON, Aug 11 (Reuters) - As his campaign for U.S. president fails to take flight, some donors to Republican hopeful Tim Pawlenty are having second thoughts.
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“At least one hitchhiker got himself across the country on the strength of a...”
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“Eventually Alice [Roosevelt Longsworth] became pregnant. Most of her...”
– Traitor to His Class, Brands
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Warren G. Harding on Friendship
“I have no trouble with my enemies,” he told journalist William Allen White. “I can take care of my enemies all right. But my damn friends, my God-damn friends, White, they’re the ones that keep me walking the floor nights!”
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“Besides her stern and narrow-minded grandmother, Eleanor had to endure some...”
– Traitor To His Class, Brand
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Paul Douglas: Economist, Politician, 50 year old...
“Shortly after losing the primary [for Senate], Douglas resigned from the Chicago City Council and, with the aid of Knox enlisted in the United States Marine Corps as a private at the age of 50.
Promoted to corporal, then to sergeant, Douglas was kept stateside, writing training manuals, and giving inspirational speeches to troops. He was told he was “too old to go overseas ‘as...
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“For at last this leader of men would be leading, fighting, not only for himself...”
– Master of the Senate
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“Eisenhower said that the satellite [Sputnik] “does not raise my apprehensions,...”
– Master of the Senate
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“[…]leadership was needed—effective leadership: leadership that not only...”
– Master of the Senate
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“The Councils’ vigilance extended into areas previously not thought of: incensed...”
– Master of the Senate
July 2011
26 posts
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“So caught up was Johnson in the race he was running now that, once again, as for...”
– Master of the Senate
