Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant: No matter how friendly and even-tempered the beast, one is affected by every twitch and grunt.
- Pierre Elliott Trudeau
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…annoyingly hard to pick. You people just named almost everyone, and some of you seemed to name everyone in a single comment. It's not like there was a runaway leader; it's more like there's this huge base of commenters that everyone likes.
The always-thoughtful Kurt Cobb has a great piece on the intersection between the hydrofracking boom and the mortgage mess:
Science exists in a cultural context. When the culture changes - and American culture has just a celebrated a rather massive change - the science is sure to follow. It's a truism but it's still true: our experiments don't take place in a vacuum. Scientists are members of society, too.
This one is useful for very few persons. The story is this: I wanted to get one of those mats that goes under a treadmill, to protect the floor. So I went to Sears, where I got the treadmill, because I had seen an ad for the mat. Thirty dollars is what they wanted. Seemed overpriced.
In case your readers don't know, Trudeau was referring to Canada-US relations when he said this.