A jaundiced look at the world we live in.
From a friend of mine:
“I spent the weekend w/ friends of my age (actually, a bit younger) and we kept not remembering words and names. Finally, I said: ‘It takes a village to finish a sentence.'”
If truer words were ever spoken, I don’t remember them!
• The energy used each year making the bottles needed to meet the demand for bottled water in the United States is equivalent to more than 17 million barrels of oil. That’s enough to fuel over 1 million cars for a year.
so this simply reinforces my pre-existing impression of him.
From page 177 of The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court, by Jeffrey Toobin:
According to a new study from the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, “those who attend church at least weekly are more prone to say that torture is justifiable. Suffice it to say that, in the eyes of those who support the use of torture, Khalid Sheikh Muhammad and Abu Zubaydah do not have the seal of God on their foreheads.
I really like Gail Collins. Unlike her fellow NYTimes columnist Maureen Dowd, she is snarky and witty without being bitchy, and unlike Thomas Friedman, she doesn't come across as obsessively self-regarding. She's the master of the the pointed barb aimed at an entirely appropriate target.