IN OMNIBUS CURIOSUS SEMPER
There is a nice story about Demetrius: an old woman repeatedly asked for a hearing, and when Demetrius replied that he was too busy, the woman said, “Then don’t be king.
[Conservatives believe] that individual initiative and private philanthropy will solve [our economic problems]—that we ought to repeal many of the things we have done and go back, for instance, to the old gold standard, or stop all this business of old age pensions and unemployment insurance, or repeal the Securities and Exchange Act, or let monopolies thrive unchecked—return, in effect, to the kind of government we had in the twenties.
But Antigenes compensated with a nice coup just before the battle. He sent some of his Macedonian veterans to shout out to Antigonus’s Macedonians: “You assholes are sinning against your fathers, the men who conquered the world with Philip and Alexander!
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Future child (children) will say things like this.
Yup.
Important historical documentary.
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.
(via AMERICA TODAY: Heartbreaking Pictures From New Jersey’s Homeless ‘Tent City’)
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. Declaration of Independence, he decided to type the text into a computer, and to transmit it to other users on the computer network. From this beginning, the digitization and distribution of literature was to be Hart’s life’s work, spanning over 40 years.
