June 29, 2008

links for 2008-06-29

  • NYTimes: Gov. George W. Bush said today that if he was president, he would bring down gasoline prices through sheer force of personality, by creating enough political good will with oil-producing nations that they would increase their supply of crude.
  • "...the British government is handing over large tracts of the school education system, along with tens of millions of our tax money, to groups of Anousics... a neologism suggested by ancient Greek to connote "mindless", "unreasoning", "illogical"."
  • (via BoingBoing) "If we felt the audience slipping away, fidgeting and scraping their feet through our jokes, Groucho or Chico would whisper in panic, "Ssssssssssst! Throw me a Gookie!"..."
Posted by oook at June 29, 2008 03:34 AM