Friday, October 2, 2020
"He said that one of the sad things in life, particularly if you were a politican, was that you discovered that the other side really had a very good case. He was most unpartisan in that way." According to Ormsby-Gore, Kennedy even wondered whether he was really cut out to be a politician because he was so often impressed by the other side's arguments when he really examined them in detail.
— Fredrik Logevall, JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century
Thursday, October 1, 2020
Frank Kermode suggests of fiction that the ending of a story is necessary to make sense of everything that came before it. Grit happens after that ending.
— David, "Grit Plus Tape"
Wednesday, September 30, 2020
"He remembered people's names."
— Fredrik Logevall, JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century
Tuesday, September 29, 2020
There aren't enough ponds in New England for everyone to have one.
— David
Monday, September 28, 2020
Sims
Walking
Bird
Games
— Lily drafting her response to a survey asking for her "Hobbies/Outside Interests"
Sunday, September 27, 2020
The hollowness, but also the wizardry, behind the self-made-billionaire image.
— Russ Buettner, Susanne Craig and Mike McIntire, "LONG-CONCEALED RECORDS SHOW TRUMP’S CHRONIC LOSSES AND YEARS OF TAX AVOIDANCE," The New York Times
Saturday, September 26, 2020
In 2020, the cancellation of the exhibition IS the artwork. Don't you see?
— @jerrygogosian meme on Philip Guston exhibit
Friday, September 25, 2020
Louis bro you should've talked to your wives and kids more instead of asking bricks what they like
— @dank.lloyd.wright meme
Thursday, September 24, 2020
The vehicle sustained no major explosive damage, but a projectile clearly struck it directly through its roof. This suggested that the military deliberately used an inert warhead to kill its target by high-velocity impact.
— Eric Schmitt, "U.S. Used Missile With Long Blades to Kill Qaeda Leader in Syria," The New York Times
Wednesday, September 23, 2020
It is a very startling thing to run into. You can go your whole life without finding that kind of excitement.
— Charles "Chuck" Spalding on his first visit to the Kennedy home, via Fredrik Logevall, JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century
Tuesday, September 22, 2020
“I was struck by how many people I spoke with, including friends, acquaintances and former clerks, felt she should have resigned at the time and that her staying on was terribly self-centered — a view I share,” Samuels emailed me. “I was also struck that normally forceful advocates I spoke with would not express their dismay on the record while she was alive.”
— Emily Bazelon, Why Ruth Bader Ginsburg Refused to Step Down," The New York Times
Monday, September 21, 2020
Today I met a guy whose job it is to pile rocks 300 ft tall and shower them with sulfuric acid. When the acid comes out at the bottom of the pile 6 months later, he mixes it with jet fuel, then more acid, then zaps the stuff with electricity. Sounds crazy right? That's where a lot of copper comes from, like the copper pipes in your home.
— Dave on FB
Sunday, September 20, 2020
Our retrospective knowledge that Roosevelt won four successive presidential elections seduces us into thinking he was at all points a political juggernaut, when in fact he faced numerous periods of vulnerability.
— Fredrik Logevall, JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century
Saturday, September 19, 2020
One brief stint was served in the employ of Thomas Edison. During this time Hampson designed and built a phonograph and a low-pressure engine. However, since his job description included milking a cow, he left Edison before going to further mechanical achievements.
— "Bug Art" wall text
Friday, September 18, 2020
People who live in grass houses shouldn't stow thrones.
— Max's punchline
Thursday, September 17, 2020
A world in which nuance was everything, in which people moved discreetly, meticulously, speaking in terms that concealed as much as they revealed, for the words would be written down by notetakers during or immediately after the meeting.
— Fredrik Logevall, JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century
Wednesday, September 16, 2020
A more permanent kind of support was necessary to make him feel less like a charity case and more like a bona fide scientist with something to offer the world.
— Kenneth R. Manning, Black Apollo of Science: The Life of Ernest Everett Just
Tuesday, September 15, 2020
And felt particularly pleased that his starfish slides were "looking good."
— Kenneth R. Manning, Black Apollo of Science: The Life of Ernest Everett Just
Monday, September 14, 2020
And the road to anger is paved with our unexpressed fear of each other's judgment.
— Audre Lorde, "Eye to Eye: Black Women, Hatred, and Anger," Sister Outsider
Sunday, September 13, 2020
Old King Mithridates learned to eat arsenic bit by bit and so outwitted his poisoners, but I'd have hated to kiss him upon his lips!
— Audre Lorde, "Eye to Eye: Black Women, Hatred, and Anger," Sister Outsider
