April 2011
Obama finally produced his birth certificate this week to silence critics who say he was not born in the United States. He has not, however, given a reason for refusing to reveal it earlier.
Maybe it’s because the ink wasn’t dry.
“Those who imagine that a politician would make a better figurehead than a hereditary monarch might perhaps make the acquaintance of more politicians.”
—Margaret Thatcher
I was banging on again last night about why I don’t like or want to read Twilight, and my friend casually said, “You sound so much like yourself, right now.”
Brilliant line.
You have some sick-ass socks, sir.
I am the master of socks.
People complaining about Harry Potter spoilers...
The spoilers were officially released from 1997 through 2007 in the form of these nifty things:
Kindles
Really, I should be just happy that people are reading, regardless of whether they are reading a paper book or a screen.
But I will always believe that there is something … magical … about physical books. Something gets lost in the translation. There is nothing romantic about a screen.
Paper holds memories and emotions better than plastic.
I love the news coverage of the royal wedding preparations. Such insights as, “Tomorrow, life will change forever for Kate Middleton.”
You think?
“The useful parts of DNA, which give us things like hair color and lungs, make up only around 2% of the human genome. Aside from the viruses, the other 98% is made up of allegedly “dead” genetic material: unused DNA sequences that might have once been useful but that now have no known purpose, like the human appendix, or Utah.”
—Cracked
