In these dark days for Israel, we might as well remind the President of the United States...

...and the tyrants of Tehran and associated places, that people have thought of it before. This is a poem by GK Chesterton (yes, he who made bad jokes about Jews - believe it or not):

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High over noises that deafen and cover us,
Rang the Deliverer's voice out over us.

'Stand thou still, thou sun upon Gibeon,
Stand thou, moon, in the valley of Ajalon!
Shout thou, people, a cry like thunder,
For the kings of the earth are broken asunder.
Now we have said as the thunder says it,
Something is stronger than strength and slays it.
Now we have written for all time later,
Five kings are great, yet a law is greater.
Stare, O sun! in thine own great glory,
This is the turn of the whole world's story.( Read more... )

Oh wow

Rotten engineering, number umpteen-squinchy and ninety-three

Hey, stupid!
No, I don't mean you. I mean that guy.
Yes, the guy who designed these so-called airtight plastic food containers.
Yes, you.
Tell me, stupid. What is the one thing you do not do when you design an airtight plastic food container?
When you design an airtight plastic food container, what is the ONE thing among all others you DAMN WELL MAKE SURE YOU DON'T DO?
Wrong.
I'll give you a hint.
You don'leave minuscule grooves and ridges and unreachable corners where the food can pile up and become effectively impossible to wash off, even with a lot of manual washing.
And if you do, then you don't make your containers out of clear plastic, so that the unwashable food remain will show as an ugly black line all over the groove.