“Most Children Strongly Opposed to Children’s Healthcare”

Study: Most Children Strongly Opposed To Children’s Healthcare
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A Chinese fund manager just paid $2.11 million to have lunch with Warren Buffett. Money goes to charity, which is nice. Imagine being so famous/successful that you could auction off getting something to eat with you and people would pay thousands of dollars to do so. via

“Animal Tales”

From the New Yorker (via Kottke natch):
FROGS
“Hey, can I ask you something? Why do human children dissect us?”
“It’s part of their education. They cut open our bodies in school and write reports about their findings.”
“Huh. Well, I guess it could be worse, right? I mean, at least we’re not dying in vain.”
“How do you figure?”
“Well, [...]

Bunim-Murray , the producers of Real World, are about to become the producers of Project Runway. I guess this might lead to more drunken hookups and fake fights?

Quote of the Day

Proving once again that being demonstrably and disastrously wrong on the most important national security questions of the day is no barrier to influence in American politics — provided, of course, that one is always careful to err on the side of war — the Washington Post gives Richard Perle yet another opportunity to be [...]

Gruber says these sculptures are “astonishingly” real. I say more like creepily.

I was an intern, does that make me a “strategist”?

In my top 5 reasons why I hate watching cable news (also in my top 5 reasons why I don’t watch cable news) is when I see some fool who doesn’t know what they are talking about but is helpfully labeled “Democratic strategist”. I don’t mean to generalize but 86% of the time, the people [...]

Alternative ending way better

Below, via Kottke, is the alternative ending to I Am Legend. It is, in my opinion, 100 times better then the one they showed in theaters and, I think, much closer to the spirit of the book the movie was based on. Why on earth did they not make this the ending?

Metro more exciting then previously thought

Via the DCist, I guess my only excuse for not noticing this behavior when I use these stops (and I use both almost every day) is that I’m really not a morning person:
A Metro station manager and a Metro custodian were arrested on prostitution charges after an undercover transit police investigation found they arranged sexual [...]

Players from Sam Javanrouh on Vimeo.
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