So using the "You didn't build that" logic, is Romney responsible for the purported errors of Bain Capital or not?
A blind archer has advanced in the Olympics. This sounds like a guy with a political future. On the other hand, maybe he's disqualified because he's too accurate.
I really wish Romney was something more than just alive. Not being Obama can only take you so far. After all, a lot of people aren't Obama.
The Penn State "Pump up" video is moving. "You don't owe these people any more."
But they must not understand. The legal waves will roll here for years, maybe decades. The state oversight will be analyzed forever. The civil suits, the criminal cases that will attack good men.
This will not just end.
"Beginning in 2001, my colleagues and I conducted a number of experiments showing that when someone's level of oxytocin goes up, he or she responds more generously and caringly, even with complete strangers." (From "The Moral Molecule" by Paul Zak.) Oxytocin is a female reproductive hormone responsible for contractions during delivery (available commercially as Pitocin) and is active during nursing. Anyone with any appreciation of the history of pharmacology will cast a cynical eye here but failure in the past never discourages those in the present and sooner or later there will be success in biochemical control of emotion. Then what?
The Greek woman thrown off her team in the Olympics for a joke she made is on the vanguard of a world problem: Non-elected do-gooders who take on assignments not ceded to them. There's a Greek joke code? Armstrong is in a similar fix with his "governing body" volunteers. Armstrong's attackers are contractors. Ditto for the physicians on the Task Force that wants to ban PSA testing. Who are these guys?
A father of one of the kids killed at the Batman movie refused to speak to a newsman unless the newsman referred to the killer as "the killer" and not by his name. It's a good idea. This murderer will prove to be as mad as a March hare but celebrity is a problem in this country and the more careful we are with it the better.
From May 2011 to May 2012, national shale gas output rose another 24% to reach an incredible 25.58 billion cubic feet per day. The Times and Rolling Stone called shale gas a Ponzi scheme. They have not offered to revisit that opinion.
Britain has stronger gun control laws than the U.S., and lower murder rates. But Mexico, Russia and Brazil are also countries with stronger gun control laws than the U.S. — and their murder rates are much higher than ours. Israel and Switzerland have even higher rates of gun ownership than the U.S., and much lower murder rates than ours.
It is interesting that politicians and activists advise individual disarmament when they demand the opposite nationally. No one, for example, would suggest the Israelis or the South Koreans disarm and American disarmament has been an impossible sell.
The demographics of golf and golf courses are in decline. Fewer people are playing golf. And the developments built around golf are feeling it. The golf housing market is crashing. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303703004577474563368632088.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_MIDDLENexttoWhatsNewsFifth
Detroit had a sale of properties abandoned or confiscated over the last years. Few of them sold despite starting prices of $500. The sale involved properties with the combined size of Central Park. The total abandoned property area in Detroit is the size of Boston.
"Please and "Thank You" is a relatively recent innovation. The habit of always saying 'please' and 'thank you' first began to take hold during the commercial revolution of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries - among those very middle classes who were largely responsible for it. It is the language of bureaus, shops, and offices, and over the course of the last five hundred years it has spread across the world along with them. "Thank you" derives from "think," it originally meant, "I will remember what you did for me" - and "please" is short for "if you please," "if it pleases you to do this". From "Debt" by David Graeber.
Apparently the Olympics will open with "very British" theme. Sheep. Cricket. James Bond. And dancing NHS nurses. Dancing nurses.
Aaaaannnnd a graph:
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