Who's Reading What These Days

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Got this one from my mom today


1. The Wall Street Journal is read by the people who run the country.

2. The Washington Post is read by people who think they run the country.

3. The New York Times is read by people who think they should run the
country and who are very good at crossword puzzles.

4. USA Today is read by people who think they ought to run the country but
don't really understand The New York Times. They do, however, like their
statistics shown in pie charts.

5. The Los Angeles Times is read by people who wouldn't mind running the
country -- if they could find the time -- and if they didn't have to leave
Southern California to do it.

6. The Boston Globe is read by people whose parents used to run the country
and did a far superior job of it, thank you very much.

7. The New York Daily News is read by people who aren't too sure who's
running the country and don't really care as long as they can get a seat on
the train.

8. The New York Post is read by people who don't care who's running the
country as long as they do something really scandalous, preferably while
intoxicated.

9. The Miami Herald is read by people who are running another country but
need the baseball scores.

10. The San Francisco Chronicle is read by people who aren't sure there is
a country ... or that anyone is running it; but if so, they oppose all that
they stand for. There are occasional exceptions if the leaders are
handicapped, minority, feminist, and/or atheist who also happen to be
illegal aliens from any other country or galaxy provided, of course, that
they are not Republicans.

11. The National Enquirer is read by people trapped in line at the grocery
store.

12. None of these is read by the guy who is running the country into the
ground.

"There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." -P.J. O'Rourke

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Ron Paul read Ludvig Von Mises.

"Human Action" is a GREAT book, ought to be mandatory reading for anyone who's even playing with the idea of "running a country" (since when did that become the job of the President?).

I like subway.

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BOOM. The only present I got for Xmas besides copy paper and pens.

I hold it true, whate'er befall;
I feel it, when I sorrow most;
'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.

[mnealtx 0]

"Send in the Waco Killers" by Vin Suprynowicz - good read.

Mike
I love you, Shannon and Jim.
POPS 9708 , SCR 14706

[kallend 2,150]

CRYPTONOMICON by Neal Stephenson.

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The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one.

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I just recently finished reading one that I received as a gift: The World Without Us

It’s a neat thought-experiment of a book: What would happen if humans disappeared tomorrow from the planet? Not a discussion of how or why … but the natural history of the planet moving forward without humans.

Cats are likely to revert to a feral state; domestic dogs, otoh, don’t have much of a future without humans.
Cockroaches in New York, Chicago, etc, and most of the non-tropical world will suffer a lost of their habitat as humans no longer heat indoor spaces in the winter … hard to mourn that loss..

Humans greatest and longest lasting legacy is likely to be plastics: estimates that it will take 100,000y + for efficiently degrading bacteria to evolve naturally for some of the higher density plastics and cross-linked polymeric materials.

The majority of the book is rather non-advocacy, which I suspect was the author’s intention. The ending (Part IV) begins to resemble Paul Ehrlich’s "zero-population growth" thesis.

The author, Alan Weisman, interviewed on the Jon Stewart Show.
Next up:

Francis Fukuyama's Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnological Revolution,
&
Martin Van Creveld's The Changing Face of War: Lessons of Combat, from the Marne to Iraq.

VR/Marg ... Salue parens omnia rerum Natura

Act as if everything you do matters, while laughing at yourself for thinking anything you do matters.
Tibetan Buddhist saying

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CRYPTONOMICON by Neal Stephenson.

That's a good one!

Mike
I love you, Shannon and Jim.
POPS 9708 , SCR 14706

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Long Way Down (Ewan McGregor & Charley Boodman) - Motorcycle trip from John O'Groats to Cape Town.... It was an excellent T.V series too.

(.)Y(.)
Chivalry is not dead; it only sleeps for want of work to do. - Jerome K Jerome

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CRYPTONOMICON by Neal Stephenson.

By the same Neal Stephenson who wrote _The Diamond Age_?

/Marg

Act as if everything you do matters, while laughing at yourself for thinking anything you do matters.
Tibetan Buddhist saying

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CRYPTONOMICON by Neal Stephenson.

By the same Neal Stephenson who wrote _The Diamond Age_?

/Marg

Yes ma'am!

Mike
I love you, Shannon and Jim.
POPS 9708 , SCR 14706

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I see no one actually read the original post.

"There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." -P.J. O'Rourke

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I see no one actually read the original post.

I got a good chuckle out of it, actually...

Mike
I love you, Shannon and Jim.
POPS 9708 , SCR 14706

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I see no one actually read the original post.

1-10 were an interesting cross-cut of humor & probably some truth.

I read the WSJ & Financial Times ... largely because I can no longer get a Washington Post delivered early Sunday morning to read with a freshly brewed pot of fair trade coffee.
VR/Marg

Act as if everything you do matters, while laughing at yourself for thinking anything you do matters.
Tibetan Buddhist saying

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I see no one actually read the original post.

Yes we did, then we answered the question in the thread title

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The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one.

[NWFlyer 2]

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I see no one actually read the original post.

Yes we did, then we answered the question in the thread title

Check the punctuation. It was a statement, not a question. But thank you, nonetheless.

"There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." -P.J. O'Rourke

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I thought at first you'd got the title wrong, but I see there's a new book and series I'll have to look up!

I really liked the first trek - Long Way Round - I got the book as a gift and then picked up the DVDs of the TV series from Netflix. I found that while the book and the TV series follow the same basic story arc the individual stories that they focused on were different enough that each was enjoyable in its own way. And I have a newfound respect for Ewan McGregor, too. More than just a pretty face.

"There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." -P.J. O'Rourke

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Hi,
The recent series has just finished on the tellie over here, so should be available on-line (I'd guess). It was very entertaining. The 2 of them are great fun to watch and some of the views of Africa where simply stunning.

(.)Y(.)
Chivalry is not dead; it only sleeps for want of work to do. - Jerome K Jerome

[kallend 2,150]

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I see no one actually read the original post.

Yes we did, then we answered the question in the thread title

Check the punctuation. It was a statement, not a question. But thank you, nonetheless.

Oh, a "gotcha". And I thought it was just another symptom of www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=3059088#3059088

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The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one.

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Got this one from my mom today


1. The Wall Street Journal is read by the people who run the country.

2. The Washington Post is read by people who think they run the country.

3. The New York Times is read by people who think they should run the
country and who are very good at crossword puzzles.

4. USA Today is read by people who think they ought to run the country but
don't really understand The New York Times. They do, however, like their
statistics shown in pie charts.

5. The Los Angeles Times is read by people who wouldn't mind running the
country -- if they could find the time -- and if they didn't have to leave
Southern California to do it.

6. The Boston Globe is read by people whose parents used to run the country
and did a far superior job of it, thank you very much.

7. The New York Daily News is read by people who aren't too sure who's
running the country and don't really care as long as they can get a seat on
the train.

8. The New York Post is read by people who don't care who's running the
country as long as they do something really scandalous, preferably while
intoxicated.

9. The Miami Herald is read by people who are running another country but
need the baseball scores.

10. The San Francisco Chronicle is read by people who aren't sure there is
a country ... or that anyone is running it; but if so, they oppose all that
they stand for. There are occasional exceptions if the leaders are
handicapped, minority, feminist, and/or atheist who also happen to be
illegal aliens from any other country or galaxy provided, of course, that
they are not Republicans.

11. The National Enquirer is read by people trapped in line at the grocery
store.

12. None of these is read by the guy who is running the country into the
ground.

This is funny! I think the National Enquirer has a higher circulation number than all the other papers combined!!!!!!!

"Some call it heavenly in it's brilliance,
others mean and rueful of the western dream"

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I see no one actually read the original post.

i did... and have had an equally amusing time reading other's responses as if you really wanted to know what they were reading.

I miss Lee.
And JP.
And Chris. And...