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Lovely story. "The story of how Danny and I were married last July in a Manhattan courtroom, with our son, Kevin, beside us, began 12 years earlier, in a dark, damp subway station." - ronin from Bookmarklet

Wonderful story - read it people it's not that long - SteVe C

Wow. - Andrew C (✓)

"OF the many injustices that permeate America's byzantine tax code, few are as outrageous as the tax rate on "carried interest" -- the profits made by private equity and hedge fund managers, as well as venture capitalists and partners in real estate investment trusts. This huge tax benefit enriches an already privileged sliver of financiers and violates basic standards of fairness and common sense." - Andrew C (✓) from Bookmarklet

"Millions of general partners in investment funds receive carried-interest income when they earn profits for their clients. Since these partners do not have to risk any of their own capital, carried interest is really a taxpayer-subsidized fee for managing their clients' money -- often 20 percent of the profits generated in the fund, and sometimes significantly more than that. " - Andrew C (✓)

"The one that most chaffs me, even as I respect the impulse that keeps it inaccessible, is a 13-minute animated short from 2002: "Mei And The Kitten Bus," directed by Hayao Miyazaki himself, as a spin-off of My Neighbor Totoro. It can only be seen at Studio Ghibli's museum in the Tokyo suburbs--it's never been released online or for home viewing. That's a smart marketing move for Miyazaki and the museum, but it does mean I'd have to travel to Japan to watch the child protagonist of one of my favorite movies go on an adventure with an adorable miniature version of the Catbus from the film." -- I HAVE NEVER EVEN HEARD OF THIS TILL NOW - Andrew C (✓) from Bookmarklet

What do you do when your boss founded a startup that directly competes with yours? - Amit Patel

competition drives innovation! - Laura Norvig

"The Democratic senator from Massachusetts had a straightforward question for them: When was the last time you took a Wall Street bank to trial? It was a harder question than it seemed." - Andrew C (✓) from Bookmarklet

""There are district attorneys and United States attorneys out there every day squeezing ordinary citizens on sometimes very thin grounds and taking them to trial in order to make an example, as they put it. I'm really concerned that 'too big to fail' has become 'too big for trial,'" Warren said. " - Andrew C (✓)

Andrew is Canadian, a big 30 Rock fan, skilled at improv, and an astute commenter on American politics. Follow him if you don't already! - Stephen Mack #TeamMomo from Bookmarklet

(whoops, wasn't following Stephen till now.) I'm not skilled at improv, but I try, and I love it. - Andrew C (✓)

Astonishing. Larissa Faw openly makes stuff up, cites anecdotes, and generally writes an opinion piece challenging the conventional wisdom but bringing absolutely no facts to back her up. - Andrew C (✓) from Bookmarklet

Yeah, not only do they live far away, but her son commutes to CSULB by train. When I lived in Upland, West Covina or Pomona, I used to take the bus to the Valley, South Bay or LA. It wasn't hard at all. It was actually harder to get around by public transportation within the suburb I lived in. Most of the buses don't run on the weekend and after 5 or 6pm, the gaps would be bigger. - Anika

"Fucking is an Austrian village in the municipality of Tarsdorf, in the Innviertel region of western Upper Austria. The village is 33 kilometres (21 mi) north of Salzburg, 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) east of the German border. Despite having a population of only 104, the village has become famous for its name in the English-speaking world. Its road signs are a popular visitor attraction, and were often stolen by souvenir-hunting tourists until 2005, when they were modified to be theft-resistant." - Tudor Bosman from Bookmarklet

Its sister city is Gebumse, VA. - Eivind

CAN. NOT. WAIT. - Andrew C (✓) from Bookmarklet

Sundance buzz is so strong it's in my trending list (or is that global? It's probably local, right?): https://twitter.com/search... - Andrew C (✓)

Is this why vampires have such great teeth? - Amit Patel

I think there are organizations that work with the same fervor but they don't have the same deep pockets. - Spidra Webster

Yeah, I wasn't really thinking along Constitutional lines here. Just pretend that there were an amendment that guaranteed free access to information, too, then. - Victor Ganata

"True, there are projected problems further down the road, mainly because of the continuing effects of an aging population. But it still comes as something of a shock to realize that at this point reasonable projections do not, repeat do not, show anything resembling the runaway deficit crisis that is a staple of almost everything you hear, including supposedly objective news reporting." - Andrew C (✓) from Bookmarklet

"So you heard it here first: while you weren't looking, and the deficit scolds were doing their scolding, the deficit problem (such as it was) was being mostly solved. Can we now start talking about unemployment?" - Andrew C (✓)

"Speaking two languages can actually help offset some effects of aging on the brain, a new study has found. Researchers tested how long it took participants to switch from one cognitive task to another, something that's known to take longer for older adults, said lead researcher, Brian Gold, a neuroscientist at the University of Kentucky. As he spoke to ABCNews.com from his cell phone, he said he was also in a grocery store choosing between gala and granny smith apples - a perfect example of switching between cognitive tasks in everyday life." - imabonehead from Bookmarklet

Yay! I know English and C++! - Amit Patel

Happy New Year! - Afonso Xavier

"For her project Sworn Virgins of Albania, photographer Jill Peters visited to the mountain villages of northern Albania to capture portraits of “burneshas,” or females who have lived their lives as men for reasons related to their culture and society. Many of the women assumed their male identities from an early age as a way to avoid the old codes that governed the tribal clans, which stated that women were the property of their husbands." - Tudor Bosman from Bookmarklet

More: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Tudor Bosman

rush to soundbyte - Greg GuitarBuster

Seems true for me - Evan Williams

hi - raquel orcio

"Without deliberate practice, even the most talented individuals will reach a plateau and stay there. For most of us, that’s just fine. But don’t delude yourself that you’ll see much improvement unless you’re ready to tackle your mistakes as well as your successes." - Amit Patel from Bookmarklet

I was playing Guitar Hero many years ago, playing Easy level until I felt good enough to go to Medium. But my daughter got to Medium before me, so I said, what the heck, let me jump to Hard. I failed miserably. It was unpleasant. Not a fun game at all. But that one Hard game instantly leveled me up from Easy to Medium. - Amit Patel

"The brain likes a challenge—and putting a few obstacles in its way may well boost its creativity." - Amit Patel from Bookmarklet

"when classroom material is made harder to absorb, pupils retain more of it over the long term, and understand it on a deeper level" - Amit Patel

I may be doing everything wrong with the tutorials I'm writing :( - Amit Patel

This is just above the reservoir, along Stevens Canyon road. - Amit Patel

very sighty - Joseph Appiah

"ScienceDaily (Nov. 20, 2012) — In the 1960s and 1970s, classic social psychological studies were conducted that provided evidence that even normal, decent people can engage in acts of extreme cruelty when instructed to do so by others. However, in an essay published November 20 in the open access journal PLOS Biology, Professors Alex Haslam and Stephen Reicher revisit these studies' conclusions and explain how awful acts involve not just obedience, but enthusiasm too -- challenging the long-held belief that human beings are 'programmed' for conformity." - Maitani from Bookmarklet

This will come in very handy in my plans for world domination… - Amit Patel

"It's really amazing to see political reporters dutifully passing along Republican complaints that President Obama's opening offer in the fiscal cliff talks is just a recycled version of his old plan, when those same reporters spent the last year dutifully passing along Republican complaints that Obama had no plan. It's even more amazing to see them pass along Republican outrage that Obama isn't cutting Medicare enough, in the same matter-of-fact tone they used during the campaign to pass along Republican outrage that Obama was cutting Medicare." - Andrew C (✓) from Bookmarklet

"This isn't just cognitive dissonance. It's irresponsible reporting. Mainstream media outlets don't want to look partisan, so they ignore the BS hidden in plain sight, the hypocrisy and dishonesty that defines the modern Republican Party. I'm old enough to remember when Republicans insisted that anyone who said they wanted to cut Medicare was a demagogue, because I'm more than three weeks old." - Andrew C (✓)

" I realize that the GOP's up-is-downism puts news reporters in an awkward position. It would seem tendentious to point out Republican hypocrisy on deficits and Medicare and stimulus every time it comes up, because these days it comes up almost every time a Republican leader opens his mouth. But we're not supposed to be stenographers. As long as the media let an entire political party invent a new reality every day, it will keep on doing it. Every day." - Andrew C (✓)

"Hi Tian, My brother recently got a tattoo that he believe translates to "fast and furious." Is this the case at all? Thank you!" - Jessie from Bookmarklet

"Yes, it does say "fast" and "foolish". " - Jessie

Is that the xun that also means "sucks"? I can never remember what it looks like in simplified, but that would make this tat even moar awesome. - Jessie

"1. Only THREE PERCENT of the very rich are entrepreneurs. According to both Marketwatch and economist Edward Wolff, over 90 percent of the assets owned by millionaires are held in a combination of low-risk investments (bonds and cash), personal business accounts, the stock market, and real estate. Only 3.6 percent of taxpayers in the top .1% were classified as entrepreneurs based on 2004 tax returns. A 2009 Kauffman Foundation study found that the great majority of entrepreneurs come from middle-class backgrounds, with less than 1 percent of all entrepreneurs coming from very rich or very poor backgrounds." - Jkram|ɯɐɹʞſ from Bookmarklet

I'm not referencing the zero-sum mentality per se, just that there have always been two sides—the haves and the have-nots—whose short-term interests have long been at odds. I'm not saying that this is necessarily a permanent state, and, yes, cooperation does seem to be an evolutionary adaptive strategy that has allowed the human species to thrive, but I also think it's perilous to... more... - Victor Ganata

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