Cartoon – Baggage
Author: Antarctica Journal
The Mysterious ‘Magic Island’ on One of Saturn’s Moons
Share of The Wold’s Wealth
Share of the world’s wealth that will be held by the richest 1% across the globe by 2016, according to a report from the antipoverty charity Oxfam: 50%
Read moreBill Vaughan Quote – Youth and Middle Age
“Youth is when you’re allowed to stay up late on New Year’s Eve. Middle age is when you’re forced to.” – Bill Vaughan
Read moreCartoon – Philosophy of The New Order
Internment Camps in the United States
Internment Camps in the United States Miyuki is old enough to have been a child during World War II. Indeed, some of her students are that old as well but they are eager to learn and listen to her carefully. She is a teacher of floral arrangements in the Japanese style of Ikenobo but her face always seems sadder […]
Read morePeggy Noonan Quote – Anonymous Heroism
“Most people aren’t appreciated enough, and the bravest things we do in our lives are usually known only to ourselves. No one throws ticker tape on the man who chose to be faithful to his wife, on the lawyer who didn’t take the drug money, on the daughter who held her tongue again and again. All this anonymous heroism.” – […]
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Nora Ephron Quote – Never Marry A Man
“Never marry a man you wouldn’t want to be divorced from.” – Nora Ephron
Read morehow many surgeons does it take to remove a polish screwdriver?
■ A Polish man impaled his head on a screwdriver, but only realized it later, when he saw himself in his rear-view mirror. “I don’t remember what happened that day,” said the 25-year-old, who doesn’t want to be named. “At some point when I was working in my garden I slipped and fell down.” Only later, after feeling some pain, […]
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