Quote of the moment

Critics take a more meta position that isn't reflective of the audience.

--Malcolm Gladwell

Datum of the moment

The top 30% of marijuana users in CO consume 90% of the drug.

-- Marijuana Policy Group; CO Department of Revenue

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Quote that makes absolutely no sense of the moment

"Through our investigation we have determined there our quite a few upwards of at last count 13 victims."

--Lt. John Torrez, Milpitas Police (on that media stalwart, ktvu.com)

Headline of the moment

Larry Bird Complains After Artist's Mural Makes Him Seem Too Interesting

--deadspin.com

Quote of the moment

Growing up in Chicago, the closest I got to the outdoors was observing rats around garbage cans and looking up at a starless sky during clandestine keggers in the woods.

--Jay Gentile

Quote of the moment

The median sales price [of a home] in Palo Alto [CA] as of July 2019 was $2.9 million.

--Anna Erwert

Quote of the moment

The entire world is roughly 225% leveraged to its economic output. 

--John Mauldin

Quote of the moment

Because I am a woman with a body, everyone had an opinion. Either they thought it was a clever marketing scheme, or they got pissed off at the idea of a woman doing whatever she wants.

--Kelsey Bressler

Quote of the moment

If you're having a handful of blueberries, you're not eating a doughnut.

--Joel Kahn, cardiologist

Strange caption on picture of the moment

This from finance.yahoo.com.

(Remember when there used to be editors?)

Quote of the moment

Despite all the gorgeous face paint and costumes and delights in that hilarious and undulating adult playground, you are surrounded by real human beings with real pain--and you might be one of them at some point.

--Melanie Curtin (on Burning Man)

Quote of the moment

Not everyone has a whole novel in them. Some may only have a short story; not everyone has that much to say. 

--Jack Seale

Trivium of the moment

1/4 of all mammals on earth are bats.

--Christy Klinger, NV department of wildlife

Headline of the moment

McDonald's new paper straws aren't recyclable — but its axed plastic ones were

--cnn.com

Headline of the moment

Burger King wins the taco race to the bottom

--thetakeout.com

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LV, NV

(c) the person who shall never be mentioned (PWSNBM)

Trivia of the moment

An (unfertilized) human egg is the largest cell in the body.

A sperm is the smallest.


--TEDed

Headline of the moment

Spirit Airlines passengers scream in terror as a BAT flies through the plane cabin at 37,000ft

--thesun.co.uk