The Great Round World is powered by raw animal cunning, with intermittent fits of lazy spite.Tumblr (3.0; @the-great-round-world)http://the-great-round-world.com/<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lznze3m1DA1qgvs1xo1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://lullabiesandlace.tumblr.com/post/17912184759/i-couldnt-resist" class="tumblr_blog" target="_blank">lullabiesandlace</a>:</p> <blockquote><p>I couldn’t resist…</p></blockquote> <p>No.</p>http://the-great-round-world.com/post/17921559435http://the-great-round-world.com/post/17921559435Sun, 19 Feb 2012 18:27:05 -0800<img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lze37nxnpg1qd96hso1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://washingtonpoststyle.tumblr.com/post/17608677780/on-valentines-day-in-1884-teddy-roosevelts-wife" target="_blank">washingtonpoststyle</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>On Valentines Day in 1884, <strong>Teddy Roosevelt’s</strong> wife and mother died within hours of each other. This was his diary entry for that Thursday.</p> <p><a href="http://www.lettersofnote.com/p/light-has-gone-out-of-my-life.html" target="_blank"><em>via LettersOfNote</em></a><em> by way of <a href="https://twitter.com/#!/geneweingarten" target="_blank">Gene Weingarten</a>.<br/></em></p> </blockquote>http://the-great-round-world.com/post/17695150675http://the-great-round-world.com/post/17695150675Wed, 15 Feb 2012 19:41:03 -0800“<p>One of the oldest criticisms of democracy is that the people will inevitably drain the treasury by demanding more spending than taxes. The theory is that citizens who get more than they pay for will vote for politicians who promise to increase spending.</p> <p>But Dean P. Lacy, a professor of political science at Dartmouth College, has identified a twist on that theme in American politics over the last generation. Support for Republican candidates, who generally promise to cut government spending, has increased since 1980 in states where the federal government spends more than it collects. The greater the dependence, the greater the support for Republican candidates.</p> <p>Conversely, states that pay more in taxes than they receive in benefits tend to support Democratic candidates. And Professor Lacy found that the pattern could not be explained by demographics or social issues.</p>”<br/><br/> - <em><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/12/us/even-critics-of-safety-net-increasingly-depend-on-it.html?_r=1&hp" target="_blank">Even Critics of Safety Net Increasingly Depend on It - NYTimes.com</a></em>http://the-great-round-world.com/post/17486729738http://the-great-round-world.com/post/17486729738Sun, 12 Feb 2012 06:22:30 -0800<img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxwvepz81d1qzfekyo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>(via <a href="http://travel-this.com/2012/01/16/lucky-to-be-here/" target="_blank">Lucky to be here « TRAVEL THIS</a>)</p>http://the-great-round-world.com/post/15968896718http://the-great-round-world.com/post/15968896718Mon, 16 Jan 2012 13:52:01 -0800“<p>25 January, 1936<br/> San Fransisco, California</p> <p>Dear Saroyan,</p> <p>I note what you say about your aspiration to edit a magazine. I am sending you by this mail a six-chambered revolver. Load it and fire every one into your head. You will thank me after you get to hell and learn from other editors there how dreadful their job was on earth.</p> <p>(Signed, ‘H.L. Mencken’)</p>”<br/><br/> - <em><a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LettersOfNote/~3/pkuZa6Uqtxo/for-aspiring-editors.html" target="_blank">For Aspiring Editors</a></em>http://the-great-round-world.com/post/15968630299http://the-great-round-world.com/post/15968630299Mon, 16 Jan 2012 13:47:49 -0800<p>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.</p> <p>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?</p> <p>To all my friends and family, thank you for your support and love. I will be getting in touch with you more in the next couple of weeks as I get settled.</p> <p>It’s a good day.</p>http://the-great-round-world.com/post/15408807365http://the-great-round-world.com/post/15408807365Fri, 06 Jan 2012 11:42:57 -0800<a href="http://americandrink.net/post/11697766904/back-to-school-special">Back to School Special</a>: <p>For the parents out there…</p>http://the-great-round-world.com/post/11798390986http://the-great-round-world.com/post/11798390986Sat, 22 Oct 2011 18:27:00 -0700drink parenting mixology children<a href="http://slyoyster.hypervocal.com/cheap-thrills/2011/decades-old-calvin-and-hobbes-strip-succinctly-explains-occupy-wall-street-movement/">Decades Old Calvin and Hobbes Strip Succinctly Explains Occupy Wall Street Movement</a>: <p>via <a target="_blank" href="http://daringfireball.net/">Daring Fireball</a></p>http://the-great-round-world.com/post/11707870062http://the-great-round-world.com/post/11707870062Thu, 20 Oct 2011 15:19:50 -0700<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ltbcn1I5WV1qzfekyo1_400.png"/><br/><br/><p>Good point.</p> <p>(via <a href="http://xkcd.com/966/" target="_blank">xkcd: Jet Fuel</a>)</p>http://the-great-round-world.com/post/11651381949http://the-great-round-world.com/post/11651381949Wed, 19 Oct 2011 05:42:37 -0700<p><a href="http://jessnevins.tumblr.com/post/11396583491" target="_blank">jessnevins</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Here’s some excerpts from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serge_Voronoff" target="_blank">the Wikipedia page</a>:</p> <p>“gained fame for his technique of grafting monkey testicle tissue on to the testicles of men for purportedly therapeutic purposes”</p> <p>“Voronoff injected himself under the skin with extracts from ground-up dog and guinea pig testicles”</p> <p>“His first official transplantation of a monkey gland into a human took place on June 12, 1920”</p> <p>“Noteworthy people who had the surgery included Harold McCormick, chairman of the board of International Harvester Company, and the aging President of Turkey Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.”</p> <p>“To cope with the demand for the operation, Voronoff set up his own monkey farm on the Italian Riviera, employing a former circus-animal keeper to run it”</p> <p>“In the 1940s, his treatment was widely used by football players at Wolverhampton Wanderers and Portsmouth”</p> </blockquote>http://the-great-round-world.com/post/11398600450http://the-great-round-world.com/post/11398600450Thu, 13 Oct 2011 09:50:44 -0700<img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lsutswAyKH1qzooxpo1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://theimpossiblecool.tumblr.com/post/11273096117" target="_blank">theimpossiblecool</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Cash.<span> </span></p> </blockquote>http://the-great-round-world.com/post/11273130094http://the-great-round-world.com/post/11273130094Mon, 10 Oct 2011 07:35:31 -0700Johnny CashThe Impossible Cool<a href="http://www.theonion.com/articles/last-american-who-knew-what-the-fuck-he-was-doing,26268/">Last American Who Knew What The Fuck He Was Doing Dies | The Onion - America's Finest News Source</a>http://the-great-round-world.com/post/11108729276http://the-great-round-world.com/post/11108729276Thu, 06 Oct 2011 12:42:01 -0700“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.””<br/><br/> - <em>Dividing the spoils : the war for Alexander the Great’s empire/Robin Waterfield.</em>http://the-great-round-world.com/post/11055069842http://the-great-round-world.com/post/11055069842Wed, 05 Oct 2011 01:08:59 -0700hellenistickingsleadership“[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.”<br/><br/> - <em>I’ll let you guess if this was from seventy years ago or yesterday.</em>http://the-great-round-world.com/post/10886647462http://the-great-round-world.com/post/10886647462Sat, 01 Oct 2011 06:11:29 -0700economicspoliticsthen and nowthe more things change“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!””<br/><br/> - <em>Dividing the spoils : the war for Alexander the Great’s empire/Robin Waterfield.</em>http://the-great-round-world.com/post/10886637932http://the-great-round-world.com/post/10886637932Sat, 01 Oct 2011 06:11:04 -0700ancient historydiadochihellenistic agegood translation<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lr4wi7FzV81qccrklo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://heckyeahpresidents.tumblr.com/post/10405686525" class="tumblr_blog" target="_blank">heckyeahpresidents</a>:</p> <blockquote><p>Correct.</p> <p><a href="http://pour-moi.tumblr.com/post/9934228426" target="_blank">pour-moi</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><a href="http://polyesterspectre.tumblr.com/post/9933789754" target="_blank">polyesterspectre</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>A+</p> </blockquote> <p>Future child (children) will say things like this. </p> </blockquote></blockquote> <p>Yup.</p>http://the-great-round-world.com/post/10414546880http://the-great-round-world.com/post/10414546880Mon, 19 Sep 2011 14:14:55 -0700EXTRA CREDITawwhistoryadorable children are adorablelolz<iframe width="400" height="243" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/2mkK0Tbg5Co?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p>Important historical documentary.</p> <p>(via <a href="http://devour.com/video/abe-lincoln-trick-shot-quarterback/" target="_blank">Abe Lincoln: Trick Shot Quarterback on Devour.com</a>)</p>http://the-great-round-world.com/post/10312563176http://the-great-round-world.com/post/10312563176Sat, 17 Sep 2011 05:36:34 -0700<a href="http://www.txtpost.com/a-homeless-city-in-the-woods/">A Homeless City in the Woods</a>: <p>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.</p>http://the-great-round-world.com/post/10127940527http://the-great-round-world.com/post/10127940527Mon, 12 Sep 2011 09:21:45 -0700<img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lrf3ybQNjz1qzfekyo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>(via <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/lakewood-new-jersey-homeless-tent-city-2011-9?op=1#ixzz1XhcZB0JT" target="_blank">AMERICA TODAY: Heartbreaking Pictures From New Jersey’s Homeless ‘Tent City’</a>)</p>http://the-great-round-world.com/post/10127853744http://the-great-round-world.com/post/10127853744Mon, 12 Sep 2011 09:18:11 -0700<blockquote> <p><a title="Yes, Carol Bartz had a non-disparagement clause" target="_blank" href="http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2011/09/08/carol-bartz-yahoo-disparagement/">Did ex-Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz just forfeit $10 million by calling fellow board members “doofuses”?</a></p> </blockquote> <p>Yes. That’s kind of awesome.</p>http://the-great-round-world.com/post/9995857614http://the-great-round-world.com/post/9995857614Fri, 09 Sep 2011 08:17:27 -0700