A world in which global growth slows so much that countries with three or four times our population never surpass the U.S.’s economic output is a world in which much is going wrong….Yet it seems that some Americans would prefer to be the only superpower in hell than the foremost member of a more prosperous Group of 20 in heaven.
Ezra Klein from American Decline a Mirage in a World That’s Rising
The only reasonable way to explain “Battleship” is that it is actually a deft and subtle satire of the big-budget Hollywood action blockbuster, an exaggerated reflection of the form’s worst tendencies and a sly test of its theoretical limits. How else to justify its lazy conceptual gimmickry, cynical deployment of meaningless cliches, spastic narrative, visual incoherence and indifferent boredom with itself?
Peter Suderman from Movie Review: ‘Battleship’
His voice is so high, it sounds like a ringtone.
Drew Magary from Man Up, Bieber
Birdseye died with more than two hundred patents to his name on more than fifty ideas, and though the obituaries called him “the father of frozen food,” his inventions ranged from a whaling harpoon to electric lightbulbs. A few of his inventions changed the course of the twentieth century. But it is almost as telling to know that when this enthusiastic and insatiably curious man died, his final mourners were not the captains of finance and industry with whom he worked, nor fellow inventors and thinkers, but the children who grew up in his neighborhood.
Mark Kurlansky from Birdseye: The Adventures of a Curious Man; browse or buy it at Amazon.com or Barnes & Noble
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