“No sound save the rush of the river, / While soft falls the dew on the face of the dead—”

[larryhammer]

Links of varying importance:

Naomi Klein: “Side with the child over the gun every single time, no matter whose gun and no matter whose child.” (via janni)

(I’ll let that sit there for a moment. If you follow only one of these links, let it be that one.)

Wiktionary has started the important task of building out entries for emoji. Did they get to 🍑 and 🍆 quickly? Of course they did 😂

“The human brain uses one mechanism to assess [the number of items when there are] four or fewer items and a different one for when there are five or more.” (via)

---L.

Subject quote from All Quiet Along the Potomac (aka The Picket Guard), Ethel Lynn Beers.

Comments

[trobadora]

Naomi Klein: “Side with the child over the gun every single time, no matter whose gun and no matter whose child.”

A great quote from a great article. Thank you for sharing!

[larryhammer]

Best writing on the whole fustercluck I've read.

A close second is The Onion's take.

[trobadora]

Oh, ouch. Thank you again!