…medicine, or at least dentistry. I was in the dentist chair today and thinking to myself how much worse this would be without things like novacaine and modern fillings and so forth. I was thinking about the alternatives – wooden teeth; gold teeth; no teeth. At one point in time, you could very well die from a bad tooth. Now it’s an hour of discomfort followed by one hell of a headache. Man. Now that the numb is gone, it’s just pain, pain, pain. Sheesh.
Borat, Art, and the Eye of the Beholder
Borat: “I do a picture, only small, of the Tishnik Masacre. Where many Uzbeks…crushed!”
Kindly Gray Hippie: “How did you feel when you drew this?”
Borat: “Very proud!”.
KGH: “I’m just listening with sadness…a little sadness for your people…?”
Borat: “Yes…no, it is not sad. It is us who do the kill!”
When in doubt, consult the classics [5:30 mark].
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Nobel Peace Prize Jury Faces Formal Inquiry Read the story here. Here’s the paragraph that would make clicking through worthwhile, if you’re still undecided:
If the Stockholm County Administrative Board, which supervises foundations in Sweden’s capital, finds that prize founder Alfred Nobel’s will is not being honored, it has the authority to suspend award decisions going back three years — though that would be unlikely and unprecedented, said Mikael Wiman, a legal expert working for the county. ( 9 comments)
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