I see you gracefully swimming with the country club women


Hilo Chen, Day at the Beach, 2011

* From Harper's August 2012:

-- Percentage increase in average annual federal spending during the Obama Administration: 2.4

-- Rank of that rate of increase among the lowest under any president since Truman: 1

-- Factor by which the number of American babies born addicted to opiates has increased since 2000: 3

-- Rank of the United States among the world's largest exporters of human sperm: 1

-- Number of private U.S. citizens killed in terrorist attacks in 2010: 15

-- Number killed by falling televisions: 16

* "I'm into sound, not fi." -- from this video/interview with R. Stevie Moore

* "We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge." - John Naisbitt