“Enjoy this Labor Day, remembering that many people pick our fruits and vegetables, pack our beef and chicken, drive our food to market, bake our bread, and care for our children who have no voice, make minimum wages, are without health care, and live below the poverty line.” — Tony, my friend.
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“Krill Fact: There are a lot of them, but who cares.”
“Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing. Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather than nothing, why the universe exists, why we exist.” — Stephen Hawking. I guess that settles it.
“The thirteenth century saw major contributions of scholastic theologians… This produced very sophisticated definitions of the sacraments, perhaps too sophisticated because they treated the sacraments…in terms of intellectual categories rater than as awesome mysteries.” — James F. White, A Brief History of Christian Worship
“I hit it at the fourth try!” — Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, regarding his shooting a whale with a crossbow. Via.
Gentries, 48, said he had absolutely no interest in exposing himself to further knowledge of Islamic civilization or putting his sweeping opinions into a broader context of any kind, and confirmed he was “perfectly happy” to make a handful of emotionally charged words the basis of his mistrust toward all members of the world’s second-largest religion.
Don’t worry, it’s The Onion. Not like real life.
This is page three of your friendly neighborhood I-9 form, via the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. Just thought it was fun.