RT @KimKierkegaard: What good would it do if the truth stood before me cold &naked, & I gave it a dress pulled off the runway from Givenchy?
Quotes
Kids these days are terrible writers. I mean, have you read some of these suicide notes??
— Morgan Murphy (@morgan_murphy) October 4, 2013
Has anyone called ‘The Hunger Games’ ‘Battle Royale With Cheese’ yet? Can I really be the first?
— Pat Healy (@Pat_Healy) October 4, 2013
Dear anyone who uses a household metaphor to describe government finances:
if you just took out a 30-year mortgage, you are now carrying about two to four times the debt:income ratio that the federal government is right now. Also, your interest rate is literally infinity times higher: the federal government is paying an inflation-adjusted -0.8% on most of its debt.
Love,
Andreas C. Schou
Greatest letter to the editor ever? (From The Economist, via reddit)
SIR – You were mistaken in thinking that California once elected a “cyborg as governor” (“Just a little local difficulty”, August 10th). A cyborg is an organism augmented with mechanical elements. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Terminator was an android, a machine designed to replicate a human.
Although the two may seem interchangeable, Mr Schwarzenegger would have been hard pressed to portray the level of humanity needed to pass for a cyborg.
Michael Scott
Great Falls, Virginia* Letter appears online only
So today’s the day I discovered escorts on LinkedIn. I guess they’re professionals….
— grantimatter (@grantimatter) August 17, 2013
.@kozemp ORDER OF THE STICK is arguably one of the modern classics of fantasy storytelling, independent of its meta-nature.
— John Rogers (@jonrog1) August 21, 2013
Tonight is the Blue Moon. “Oh THAT explains it!” says someone who is not explaining it.
— Barbara Holm (@barbara_holm) August 21, 2013
iconoplast: Headline of the day, via @Bryan_Denson: Romanian princess, sheriff’s deputy husband arrested in cockfighting bust. http://bit.ly/1achAI8 Headline of the day, via @Bryan_Denson: Romanian princess, sheriff’s deputy husband arrested in cockfighting bust. http://bit.ly/1achAI8 http://bit.ly/16tusbl
iconoplast: Can a Country Dodge the #NSA by Rebuilding the Internet? http://atfp.co/16QLcFP Can a Country Dodge the #NSA by Rebuilding the Internet? http://atfp.co/16QLcFP http://bit.ly/16QLb4G