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It’s about what people notice. In town governments I’ve heard of cutting popular programs that will provoke an outcry only to get credit for reinstating them, while possibly smuggl…

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He used that line as an album title too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing_Like_the_Sun_(album)

“Everyone has a mass of bad work in him which he will have to work off and get rid of before he can do better– and indeed, the more lasting a man's ultimate good work is, the more …

“One of the best descriptions of this political culture came from A.J. Liebling, who called Louisiana "the westernmost of the Arab states" and observed that its politics "is of an …

Reading Lin as a teenager made me want to visit China, where I met my wife. Thanks Lin!

Don’t forget Al Franken’s Supply Side Jesus! https://youtu.be/X8xU-gKK17A?si=bjUAQafNZmz0R7Zs

“Every family has a scripture that is difficult to read” - Chinese proverb

In his Essays, Michel de Montaigne had a neighbor whose doctor told him not to eat a certain dish. When Montaigne asked him why he ate it anyway, he said he needed something to cur…

If Books Could Kill did a podcast on “The Four-Hour Workweek” and pointed out he explains the scam he’s running on his own readers. I guess he figures the smart (?) ones can recrea…

It’s a joke inspired by Mr Bean: https://youtu.be/EiZoSuNej5U?si=wpOzf7C-X2NvhRDd . It would take care of any cameras but I doubt the owners would be too pleased!

Explode a paint bomb in the center of the room that applies an even coat to everything. It’s the only way to be sure.

The ones I’m talking about were only subtly different, like 22 oz vs 24 oz. To me it was obvious what they were doing, shoppers couldn’t compare same-size units and they could have…

The sizes were requested by the companies, the tour guide pointed this out in answer to questions.

My local hummus factory puts the product destined for Costco into a different sized tub than the one destined for Walmart. Companies want to make it hard for the consumer to compar…

Indeed. I wish I had been able to see this when I was taking high school Latin in the 90s, at least the school-friendly version (if it exists)

As Ross and Carrie of ONRAC used to say, “cure-alls cure nothing.”

“A tendency to superstition is of the very essence of humanity and, when we think we have completely extinguished it, we shall find it retreating into the strangest nooks and corne…

“Lord Coke gravely informs us that corporations cannot be excommunicated, because they have no souls, and they appear to be as destitute of every feeling as if they had also no bow…

[The Empire Never Ended]( https://www.splicetoday.com/writing/the-empire-never-ended )

One theory for how wolves became domesticated is that certain of them had a condition like Williams that made them friendly to humans, who became the ancestors of modern dogs. It w…

SNL had that idea: the “all drug Olympics” https://youtu.be/jAdG-iTilWU?si=25YzT63fNu_dCIq4

The only real giveaway to me that Trailer Park Boys is Canadian is how they pronounce the word “sorry”. Like SOW-ry rather than SOH-ry.

Save me some of those sweet empowered chicken things https://youtu.be/Jfq3c4Cf1Fs?si=pl5Q0Q1bJb8rP2br

Among magazine staff there’s a saying about “senior editors”: senior to whom, editor of what?