Full up like a landfill

“That leaves the punk rockers, who know what it’s like to be outsiders.”

“A Republican state senator from Arkansas who is leading a legislative committee on the subject of giving guns to school teachers accidentally shot a teacher during an ‘active shooter’ drill earlier this year.”

“The only way I can see to consistently avoid the problem of assuming respondents actually care about the issue of interest as much as do poll commissioners is to expand the usual response format of ‘Yes, no, or don’t know’ to include the option ‘Don’t care.’”

“Public health experts estimate that as many as 90 percent of Americans do it, and they want us to cut it out.”

“We have to stop assuming that the water available for future use is the same as in the past.”

“Deception is found to be virtuous in the story when it is used to interrupt the powerful.”

“The Bible is not a book God wrote, it is a book that human beings wrote about God.”

“What if our calling is to imagine engaging the world so as to make the good things of the world better versions of themselves?”

“Just make sure you are hanging out regularly in a group where you are the minority when it comes to your beliefs.”

“The truth cannot be that long.”

“I hope the tree will love the soil of the old world and no doubt when we have gone the tree will still be alive.”

“Statute Forbidding Any One to Annoy or Unduly Injure the Freshmen. Each and every one attached to this university is forbidden to offend with insult, torment, harass, drench with water or urine, throw on or defile with dust or any filth, mock by whistling, cry at them with a terrifying voice, or dare to molest in any way whatsoever physically or severely, any, who are called freshmen. …”

“After losing his fortune, Norton took the unusual step of proclaiming himself Emperor of the United States in 1859.”

“The idea that all, or even most, or even a lot, of the stars you can see in the sky are already dead is simply wrong.”

“Draw your own conclusions about gerbils, folks.” (via Ed Yong)

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