American Digest Daybook #216

• "I'd understand people getting all hinky about comparing a part-black presidential candidate to a monkey if they hadn't spent the last 7 years populating the internet with hundreds of thousands of references to the sitting president as a chimp." -- Rachel Lucas
• "Few figures in American history are so tantalizing as Lincoln -- so approachable on the one hand and so unreachable on the other; demanding to be understood and impossible to comprehend. - Lincoln and the Will of God
• "Being in graduate school satisfies many white requirements for happiness. They can believe they are helping the world, complain that the government/university doesn't support them enough, claim they are poor, feel as though are getting smarter, act superior to other people, enjoy perpetual three day weekends, and sleep in every day of the week!" - Stuff White People Like #81 Graduate School
• "A creator, such as an artist, musician, photographer, craftsperson, performer, animator, designer, videomaker, or author - in other words, anyone producing works of art - needs to acquire only 1,000 True Fans to make a living." Kevin Kelly -- The Technium
• Local news: Mystery in British Columbia -- 3 human feet float ashore "In the past six months, three different human feet have washed ashore right in the backyard of our beloved San Juans. All right feet, all wearing tennis shoes..."
• Climate Doom-of-the-Day headline: Warming climate may cause arctic tundra to burn

Posted by Vanderleun at March 4, 2008 5:29 PM