HATE SPEECH! HATE SPEECH!!!!1! Don't make me hit you with a harrassment suite.
Please...Wesley...why can't I stay?
Fred ,'A Hole in the World'
Natter 52: Playing with a full deck?
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
brenda m - Jul 24, 2007 10:35:23 am PDT #9775 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
tommyrot - Jul 24, 2007 10:35:56 am PDT #9776 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
So who here has heard of Norman Borlaug? I hadn't.
He Only Saved a Billion People
It's a trifecta much bigger and rarer than an Oscar, an Emmy and a Tony. Only five people in history have ever won the Nobel Peace Prize, the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal: Martin Luther King Jr., Mother Teresa, Nelson Mandela, Elie Wiesel ... and Norman Borlaug.
Norman who? Few news organizations covered last week's Congressional Gold Medal ceremony for Borlaug, which was presided over by President Bush and the leadership of the House and Senate. An elderly agronomist doesn't make news, even when he is widely credited with saving the lives of 1 billion human beings worldwide, more than one in seven people on the planet.
Borlaug's success in feeding the world testifies to the difference a single person can make. But the obscurity of a man of such surpassing accomplishment is a reminder of our culture's surpassing superficiality. Reading Walter Isaacson's terrific biography of Albert Einstein, I was struck by how famous Einstein was, long before his role in the atom bomb. Great scientists and humanitarians were once heroes and cover boys. No more. For Borlaug, still vital at 93, to win more notice, he would have to make his next trip to Africa in the company of Angelina Jolie.
brenda m - Jul 24, 2007 10:36:40 am PDT #9777 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Green Revolution, baby.
tommyrot - Jul 24, 2007 10:39:13 am PDT #9778 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Green Revolution, baby.
Yay! I learned something new....
Allyson - Jul 24, 2007 10:40:33 am PDT #9779 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
There's no vendors I know about, no.
I'm so overwhelmed trying to plan the book release signing/reading thing at Vroman's, I can't even think about asking another human for another favor.
Ginger - Jul 24, 2007 10:43:11 am PDT #9780 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
It's not a favor. The bookseller would be making money.
Jesse - Jul 24, 2007 10:44:40 am PDT #9781 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
And I guess they also must just be thinking it's not wrong to do. It's against the rules but not wrong.
Like counting cards in a casino!
Allyson - Jul 24, 2007 10:46:51 am PDT #9782 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
There aren't any booksellers that I know of.
lisah - Jul 24, 2007 10:47:00 am PDT #9783 of 10001
Punishingly Intricate
Like counting cards in a casino!
Exactly. That would be really easy for someone with that ability to rationalize. Especially if they thought that everybody they were competing against was also counting cards.
brenda m - Jul 24, 2007 10:47:37 am PDT #9784 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Hee. That just happened in an ep of Bones I watched the other night.