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It gives me a headache to debunk historical solecisms point by point; the futility—the truth won’t change these people’s mind—makes me feel like I’m filling a bathtub with an eye-dropper. »

February 6th, 2008

Did I trust the finely-tuned machine I saw before me to successfully check on my registration status? No, I did not. Chaos at the Polling Station! | Cosmic Variance

« I always saw Knight the same way I see Hannibal Lector from The Silence of the Lambs: you don’t care for who he is or what he’s done (choking kids/wearing dead people’s faces), but if you’re at the same party or bar, you really want him to like you.