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
Saturday, September 12, 2020
He briefed the mayor on a plan — prepared by 14 consulting firms — for how City Hall could work with business leaders to overcome the pandemic downturn.
— J. David Goodman, Emma G. Fitzsimmons and Jeffery C. Mays, "Inside the Clash Between Powerful Business Leaders and N.Y.C.’s Mayor," The New York Times
Friday, September 11, 2020
Again, not about the content. About what the movie says about the content.
— John Nolte, "‘Cuties’ Review: Dull and Indefensible," Breitbart
Thursday, September 10, 2020
He thinks that buildings are always more interesting than the project.
— David on Enrique Walker
Wednesday, September 9, 2020
"Stalin had the very good sense never to say anything before everyone else had his argument fully developed," Bazhanov said.
— Stephen Kotkin, Stalin: Volume 1: Paradoxes of Power
Tuesday, September 8, 2020
FACT CHECK: Trending Hoax Video of Donald Trump Pointing to a Puddle Lacks Context
— Breitbart headline
Monday, September 7, 2020
And the supreme gift of pursuing a chosen goal inflexibly and without scruple.
— Alexander Barmine via Stephen Kotkin, Stalin: Volume 1: Paradoxes of Power
Sunday, September 6, 2020
I'll practice knee surgery on geese.
— Lily
Saturday, September 5, 2020
Glass eggs were used by storekeepers to aid the customer in choosing sizes of eggs. Later the poultry industry used glass eggs to teach pullet hens where to lay their eggs.
— Sandwich Glass Museum item text, "Free-Blown Eggs," Attributed to the Boston & Sandwich Glass Company and Others, 1840 - 1887, Museum Collection, 1924.11.1-.3
Friday, September 4, 2020
In a reenactment of the "storming of the Winter Palace" staged in Petrograd, which involved far more people than the original event.
— Stephen Kotkin, Stalin: Volume 1: Paradoxes of Power
