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If you had invested 100 dollars into the Sp500 on the same day of the first “Forever Stamp” after re-investing dividends you would be DOWN 1.3%, and down more after any broker fees and taxes on the dividends. If you put $100 into forever stamps, you are UP over 7%.
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Watson has lots in common with a top-ranked human Jeopardy! player: It’s very smart, very fast, speaks in an uneven monotone, and has never known the touch of a woman.
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Yes, the Greenmarket allows frustrated poets, failed performance artists and frizzy-haired single women with too many cats to think that they’re communing with nature just because they bought some goddamned European yellow-fleshed potatoes, rooted parsley or handmade pretzels while standing in a steady drizzle. In fact, they were just getting the organic shaft.
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Joe Queenan, Spy, February 1994
Things that turned me into who I am today, in order:
- Spy Magazine
- Suck.com
- Reason.com
And I think the same people have written for all three.
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Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. Anything that’s invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. Anything invented after you’re thirty-five is against the natural order of things.
—Douglas Adams (via nickdouglas) (via louobedlam)
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Europe “made peace with democracy” by slaughtering two generations its youth.
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Who Is IOZ?: Growing up Is Hard to Do
Take note Arabia.
