April 2009
13 posts
“Strong people are harder to kill than weak people, and more useful in general”
– Mark Rippetoe, off my new PVCF shirt. The quote on the back: “If it doesn’t make you stronger, it’ll probably kill you.”
“I believe it is not in our character, the American character, to follow....”
– The White House - Blog Post - The Necessity of Science
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate; our deepest fear is that we are...”
– Marianne Williamson
“So who wouldn’t fall all over themselves for a top politician who actually...”
– David Foster Wallace, writing about John McCain in 2000. (via Rolling Stone)
Aliteracy →
takeaway statistics:
1/3 of high school graduates never read another book for the rest of their lives.
42 percent of college graduates never read another book after college.
80 percent of U.S. families did not buy or read a book last year.
70 percent of U.S. adults have not been in a bookstore in the last five years.
57 percent of new books are not read to completion.
“You’re an adult if you spend more time at work than in class.”
– Anna (paraphrased, heard @ Dan’s apartment)
A Matter of Conscience
My grandmother sent me this editorial from the Catholic Standard asking for people to comment against Obama’s rescinding of the “provider conscience rule”. This rule lets medical providers (from doctors all the way down to the pharmacist at your grocery store) decline to perform any service which violates their conscience. It was introduced by Bush at the end of his presidency,...