Plaque in Riverside, Iowa. It’s going to be pretty awkward when that date rolls around…
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"Enormous Shark’s Secret Hideout Finally Discovered"
I initially thought this headline referred to an enormous individual shark and his hideout, which would have been a whole lot better.
Foiled again...
Around lunchtime I was walking with some people in Central Square. We must have looked pretty nerdy. Near us, a comically large group of teenagers had fit inside a parked convertible and were dancing and shouting to very loud rap music.
From across the street, I shook my fist at them, old-man style. They thought I was giving them a fist pump, and reciprocated as they pointed and cheered at me.
Political cartoons from other countries: always a bit off.
Pro wrestling should start doing this, though. Current-events matches featuring costumed incarnations of various issues? The cathartic potential is huge, and the audience is a perfect fit! ‘Bitter’ tempers would be soothed, no doubt, by watching Foreclosures get banged against the floor til he’s good and bloodied.
(cf. the concept of the “foreign heel”)
Aww... (also, Liechtenstein 2011, anyone?)
(“All eligible states are currently members with the exception of Vatican City, which does not participate in international athletic competitions.”)
Do other cities have this?
Nothing will happen immediately, but Flint[, Michigan] has begun updating its master plan, a complicated task last done in 1965. [NYT]
For Mohamed ElBaradei, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, “a combination of ignorance and arrogance” under the Bush administration squandered countless diplomatic opportunities with Iran and so allowed it to forge ahead with its nuclear program.
Referring twice to Dick Cheney as “Darth Vader,” ElBaradei told me in an interview that “U.S. policy consisted of two mantras — Iran should not have the knowledge and should not spin one single centrifuge. They kept saying, wait, Iran is not North Korea, it will buckle. That was absolutely a mistake.” [-]
