Well, might I say he was a boiled-brained cod piece to choose any other over you? -The Knight Before Christmas| The Punk Theory
All humans make mistakes. What determines a person’s character aren’t the mistakes we make. It’s how we take those mistakes and turn them into lessons rather than excuses. ― Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us| The Punk Theory
And as hard as this choice is, we break the pattern before the pattern breaks us. -It Ends with Us| The Punk Theory
Here’s a story, a snippet of life, that’s never happened here before. Please join me while I say a quiet prayer that it doesn’t happen again. THE BEST WAY TO TELL this tale is to …| THE SPECTACLED BEAN
Offered as part of an estate sale, today's MG TD is a literal garage find that. Could its price prove a solid starting point to get it out of the garage?| Jalopnik
Spurred by new lap records, I asked the Jalopnik audience to tell me what cars they'd want to drive around the Nürburgring Nordschleife.| Jalopnik
Abdallah Zekri: "Mahomet, Mahomet, toujours Mahomet... Il est mort il y a 15 siècles!"| Andreas Veithen's blog
Ein recht aktuell scheinendes Zitat aus dem Septemberprogramm des Reichskanzlers Bethmann-Hollweg von 1914.| Andreas Veithen's blog
Graphique montrant la corélation inégalités et le taux de syndicalisation aux USA.| Andreas Veithen's blog
"In those parts of the world where learning and science have prevailed, miracles have ceased; but in those parts of it as are barbarous and ignorant, miracles are still in vogue."| Andreas Veithen's blog
Michael Hayden, former head of the CIA: "Option three is Assad wins. And I must tell you at the moment, as ugly as it sounds, I'm kind of trending toward option three as the best out of three very, very ugly possible outcomes."| Andreas Veithen's blog
How "skeptics" view global warming.| Andreas Veithen's blog
Obama: "The United States of America is prepared to use all elements of our power, including military force, to secure our core interests in the region. We will confront external aggression against our allies and partners, as we did in the Gulf War. We will ensure the free flow of energy from the region to the world. Although America is steadily reducing our own dependence on imported oil, the world still depends on the region’s energy supply, and a severe disruption could destabilize the e...| Andreas Veithen's blog
Einige interessante Graphiken zur Korrelation zwischen Parteibindung und Einkommen/Vermögen (Deutschland).| Andreas Veithen's blog
In the high-frequency trading business, billions of dollars are spent on high-speed lines, programming talent, and advanced computers by funds looking to capitalize on the smallest and most fleeting of mispricings. Those are computing resources and insanely intelligent people who could instead be put to work making the Internet run faster for everyone, or figuring out how to distribute electricity more efficiently, or really anything other than trying to figure out how to trade gold futures o...| Andreas Veithen's blog
"Qui est comme toi parmi les dieux, ô Yahweh? Qui est comme toi, auguste en sainteté, redoutable à la louange même, opérant des prodiges?"| Andreas Veithen's blog
Fazıl Say / Omar Khayyám: "You say rivers of wine flow in heaven, is heaven a tavern to you? You say two huris await each believer there, is heaven a brothel to you?"| Andreas Veithen's blog