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Why does every FEMA publication look like a Toby Keith album cover...

Devotion

I think I just found my new devotional series....

Craig Fugate he is not...

"It hasn't killed anyone yet and only makes a person fitter".
-Viktor Baloga, Ukraine's Emergencies Minister advising the public to exercise more as a defense against the bitter cold that has swept across Europe, leaving more than 100 dead.   Via Time, Vol 179, No. 7

First Snow Since October

"If you study something and you find all this stuff about it, you just went skin deep, so if you keep going and going, you should be left with a fucking mess of unanswered questions."


Lewis C.K. Q&A via JONAH WEINER 

I hope we've improved

"Christendom, wrote Menchen in the mid-1920s, may be defined briefly as that part of the world in which, if any man solemnly swears that he is a Christian, all his auditors will laugh"


A quote by H.L. Menchen, in "City of Man, Religion and Politics in a New Era"  Michael Gerson, Peter Wehner.  Available here

The Big Bird

"Q. How easy is it to recreate this virus?

A. ... in our opinion, nature is the biggest bioterrorist. There are many pathogens in nature that you could get your hands on very easily, and if you released those in the human population, we would be in trouble."

Ron A. M. Fouchier, the lead researcher at the Erasmus Center on the new A(H5N1) bird flu virus.

VIA NYT

Great Video on the Umbrella Man:

http://video.nytimes.com/video/2011/11/21/opinion/100000001183275/the-umbrella-man.html

Unfortunately NYT doesn't allow video embedding.