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26. February, 2010
16. February, 2010
According to Pierre De Coubertin, founder of the modern Olympics, the spirit of the Games is not to win, but to take part; not to conquer, but to fight well.
"He never made the top teams at Choate. His grades were not too good. But he was well liked by everyone. When he graduated, his class voted him 'the most likely to succeed.' They knew he would be first at something, someday."
15. February, 2010
Does that make sense? Do people who don't want to do heroin start doing it because it is a good bargain?
12. February, 2010
"The collapse of the stellar universe will occur, like creation, in grandiose splendor." --Blaise Pascal
1. February, 2010
28. January, 2010
25. January, 2010
Is it just me, or would this headline work better if they'd reversed the order of the two subjects?
24. January, 2010
22. January, 2010
15. January, 2010
31. December, 2009
23. December, 2009
Sure, the dialog has the subtlety of dubbed German porn and granted, the narrative is basically a cave drawing of a mother and child since it better make sense in Kerala as well as Kansas but here's why THIS DIRECTOR, your man who sat there in that pulsing convention hall at SDCC with his grown-out silvered skaterdude hair, was the one to make this movie: James Cameron is a fanboy.
20. December, 2009
13. December, 2009
6. December, 2009
It's curious how ignorant Rupert Murdock seems to be about the online "parasites" who "steal" from his properties -- seeing as how they're so experienced at it themselves.
3. December, 2009
26. November, 2009
25. November, 2009
By exerting an influence on the quantum-scale probabilistic events that control it, your mind may be able to affect the colors that the Mind Lamp displays.
24. November, 2009
With rare exceptions, right-wing populists such as Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Mark Levin, and the Tea Party protesters, have advocated free market approaches to dealing with the crisis, and have attacked Obama and the Democratic Congress for seeking massive increases in government spending and regulation....There has been relatively little advocacy of strange, crackpot ideas or weird conspiracy theories.
20. November, 2009
"I tried to be objective and leave religious issues aside. What I studied was an ancient document that certifies the execution of a man, in a specific time and place."
16. November, 2009
Is it "forsaking the poor" for the church to decline to compromise on its doctrine in order to work with the city, if the church continues to invest as much of its own resources on the poor as before? Is that an accurate way — in terms of basic journalism — to frame the issue?
"I don't think I was to blame for losing the race more than I could have been credited for winning the race if I had done a better job."