Sean Young & Rutger Hauer

Sean Young seems to have traveled back in time to 1997 to start a strangely hosted, poorly designed, but BEST THING I’VE EVER SEEN website.

(via 15. Polaroids)

(via Yglesias » The United States of America Consumes 8 Percent Of World’s Olive Oil, Produces Just 0.1 Percent)

Memo to suburban voucher opponents who ‘support public education’: you’re already sending your kid to private school. You’re just confused because your tuition fees came bundled with granite countertops and hardwood floors.

—Why Do We Have Gifted and Talented Programs? - Megan McArdle - Business - The Atlantic

(photos by Elliott Erwitt)

So many good ones to choose from.

Under Obama’s command, the raid on bin Laden—on par, as a feat of heroic military derring-do, with Israel’s 1976 raid on Entebbe airfield in Uganda—projected a cool and fearless capability. The perfect secrecy of the operation was part of its inspiring style—the total control, even the pitch-perfect relentlessness of Obama’s speech announcing the kill.

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News Desk: Don’t Release the Photos : The New Yorker

“derring-do”, “cool and fearless”, “inspiring style”, “pitch-perfect”.

But I repeat myself.

Miley Cyrus @ Ecuador 2011 - Smells Like Teen Spirit (Nirvana cover)

(via yglesias, whose opinion on the subject seems reasonable.)

Broad Street 2011

The crux of the matter is that “prince” and “princess” aren’t real titles of nobility. A real title goes with an “of Someplace” after it. If you’re the Duke of Something then your wife is also Duchess of Something. “Prince” and “princess,” by contrast, specifically denote that you’re the direct descendent of the Queen. Thus Prince Charles is a “prince” as are his sons, and his brother Prince Andrew and his daughters Princess Beatrix and Princess Eugenie. But Kate’s not descended from The Queen so she’s no princess.

—Yglesias » Why Catherine Middleton, Duchess Of Cambridge Is No Princess But Probably Will Be Some Day