I drink my liquor from the palm
of a child who spoke in tongues


Sharon Shapiro, It's not the heat, it's the humidity, 2002

* From Harper's August 2001:

-- Estimated percentage change in chief executive pay at America's publicly traded corporations in 2010: +11

-- Percentage change in the number of unmarried cohabitating couples in the US between 2000 and 2010: +97

-- Number of Americans serving life without parole for crimes they committed when they were 14 or younger: 73

-- Value of state tax breaks approved in May for a Bible-themed amusement park in Kentucky: $43,000,000

* A 1247-word palindrome (be sure to note the URL).

* Obama's press secretary Jay Carney talks GBV from the podium.

* "If you understood everything I said, you’d be me." -- Miles Davis