“On the difficulty of conciseness”
Blaise Pascal:
I have made this longer than usual because I have not had time to make it shorter.
Blog, page 37
“The $330,000.00 hamburger”
“US Soccer is winning”
Currently, the USMNT is on an 11-game winning streak — the longest ever.
“You have put more joy in my heart, oh Lord, than they have when their grain and wine abound.”
–Psalm 4:7
“There are more possible chess games than there are atoms in the universe.”
–Rasskin-Gutman
“I wonder why they call it ‘sound asleep.’ Shouldn’t it be ‘quiet asleep’?”
-Isabella, age 9
“One time I woke up in the night, and my sister was wide asleep.”
-Olivia, age 6
“The past 20 years have seen a massive redistribution of economic power to the emerging world.”
“There are but two dwellings: Earth’s flimsy tent and heaven’s unassailable stronghold. One may be destroyed; the other endures forever.”
–2 Corinthians 5:1
“Whoever gives thought to the word will discover good, and blessed is he who trusts in the Lord.”
–Proverbs 16:20
“the F.A.A. is on the verge of acknowledging what the public has suspected for years—that their rules are arbitrary”
“The American City”
via FT:
For the first time in 90 years, America’s cities registered higher population growth than their combined suburbs
“The problem with the secret security apparatus”
The government is promising that the secret police won’t put innocent people in the secret prisons because the secret courts would never allow it.
“La Biblia no es un testigo de la mejor clase de gente logrando llegar a Dios…”
“Mexico City hit by earthquake”
The metropolis shook like the adipose belly of an overweight luchador.