Gardenia jasminoides ‘Fortuniana’
Where will I put them?
Impulse buys at Logee’s.
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River River, Hill Hill Hill, and other fun place names
List of tautological place names on Wikipedia
Clarence Thomas is an asshat
Justice Thomas said the court should look to the practices at the time the Bill of Rights was adopted. Given that capital punishment could be imposed on people as young as 7 in the 18th century, he said, Mr. Graham’s punishment would almost certainly have been deemed acceptable back then.
via Court Bars Life Terms for Youths Who Haven’t Killed — NYTimes.com.
Justice Thomas should recall that the practices at the time the Bill of Rights was adopted condoned the practice of slavery.
The scale of a volcano
This lovely short film really helped me get a handle on the scale of the Icelandic volcano in a way that the still and aerial photography I’ve seen did not.
Iceland, Eyjafjallajökull — May 1st and 2nd, 2010 from Sean Stiegemeier on Vimeo.
The future of the Republican party?
An inspiring speech by a California Republican.
Fantastic map of London
Hand-drawn, simplified, schematic. It’s wonderful.
The source of democracy
I couldn’t put it better myself:
Haven’t we learned and understood that democratic processes and civil societies need to come from within? Democratic governments and liberal economic policies can’t be forced on to a nation from the outside, however desperately they may need it. No, these things must come from within. Without the domestic demand for civic organizations, liberal economic policies and free rights, there is no point in trying to force the issue. You can only encourage the society to structure a framework for these rights and ideals.
And no, it’s not about Iraq. This is from one of the comments on Are aid donors now running Haiti?.