NYT QotD

Hooker wins pole vault gold medal for Australia

In keeping with the title of this blog, I give you, ladies and gentlemen, the United States Senate ( Read more... )

NYT QotD

The Mets clobbered the Yankees, 15-6

Yowza!

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"...yet remain conservative on issues like opposition to abortion and support for the death penalty."

So mysterious.

Thomas Friedman has a very nice column today:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/04/opinion/04friedman.html?ref=opinion

And -- extremely surprising -- I enjoyed Maureen Dowd's column also: Leave a comment

Not funny, but NYT QotD:

Arthur C. Clarke, Premier Science Fiction Writer, Dies at 90

Oh man, I am so awesome.
Today's Wikipedia page of the day is Oxygen, and someone had replaced the article with "is delicious." So I reverted it back to the previous edit. I saved oxygen.

Very interesting article about a NYC charter school over at The New York Times. The school will pay teachers 125k, and the principal will get only 90k. Choice quote:

Ernest A. Logan, president of the city principals’ union, called the notion of paying the principal less than the teachers “the craziest thing I’ve ever heard.”

NYT QotD

“I don’t know anything about it,” Mr. McCain said. “Since it was in The New York Times, I don’t take it at face value.”

That's a cheap shot, John.

It's snowing!