Harry Carter winning the 1960 Vanderbuilt Cup!!
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10.2.08
How Many Vice-presidents Became President During Their Terms of Office ???
Is there even a contest...really?
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Tina Fey didn't write this shit... it is really what is inside Snowjob Square Glasses' head.
Fey as Palin - Best SNL impression since Dana Carvey's Bush
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9.12.08
Daniel Nocera describes new process for storing solar energy
Electricity-by-wire from a central source could be a thing of the past.
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Why the Road?
8.14.08
James Agee writing for the September 1934 issue of Fortune.
The characters in our story are five: this American continent; this American people; the automobile; the Great American Road, and the Great American Roadside. As an American, of course, you know these characters. This continent, an open palm spread frank before the sky against the bulk of the world. This curious people. The automobile you know as well as you know the slouch of the accustomed body at the wheel and the small stench of gas and hot metal. You know the sweat and the steady throes of the motor and the copious and thoughtless silence and the almost lack of hunger and the spreaded swell and swim of the hard highway toward and beneath and behind and gone and the parted roadside swarming past. This great road, too; you know that well. How it is scraggled and twisted along the coast of Maine, high-crowned and weak-shouldered in honor of long winter, how like a blacksnake in the sun it takes the ridges, the green and dim ravines which are the Cumberlands, and lolls loose into the hot Alabama valleys . . . Oh yes, you know this road....All such things you know....God and the conjunction of confused bloods, history and the bullying of this tough continent to heel, did something to the American people -- worked up in their blood a species of restiveness unlike any that any race before has known. Whatever we may think, we move for no better reason than for the plain unvarnished hell of it. And there is no better reason. So God made the American restive. The American in turn and in due time got into the automobile and found it good. The automobile became a hypnosis, the opium of the American people...
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