What Els?
King’s Singers
The last two times the Pew Research Center asked people to describe President Bush in a single word, chief among the overwhelmingly negative responses was the word “incompetent.”
What makes that particularly fascinating is that it’s a realization that the public has reached pretty much on its own.
Dan Froomkin in the Washington Post
The white folks around knew old Hezekiah…
“Harmless enough, but the way I figger
He better lay off’n them goddam books,
‘Cause readin’ ain’t good fer an ignorant nigger.
“Harmless enough, but the way I figger
He better lay off’n them goddam books,
‘Cause readin’ ain’t good fer an ignorant nigger.
christopher hitchens
Gorgeous photography by Charlie Waite
When I looked at Mattel’s list of recently recalled toys, it became obvious that something more than our dependence on foreign goods or even the physical safety of children is at stake here. The problem is that the toys and the business model that creates them has so little to do with the needs of children and their parents.
Toys for Saps
I do not know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. Letter to Harry S. Truman.