3-29-2010

3-29-2009—[The basketball coach of Butler] is a believer in statistical analysis, which after heavily influencing baseball is making its way into basketball. NYT D2
--Yet despite thronging primary races across the US, true tea-party candidates have stumbled at the polls. WSJ A1
--Jesus Christ, Benedict said in his homily, guides the faithful “towards the courage that doesn’t let us be intimidated by the chatting of dominant opinions, towards patience that supports others. WSJ A19 [yeh, these butt fucked little boys do nothing but chatter, and we need to support the pedophiles—rah rah Jesus!!]
--The secret of survival is a defective imagination. The inability of mortals to imagine things as they truly are is what allows them to live, since one momentary, unresisted glimpse of the world’s totality of suffering would annihilate them on the spot, like a whiff of the most lethal sewer gas.” John Banville, quoted at 18 LRB 11 March 2010
--In today’s money, the entire cost of the Apollo program was spent in 540 days of the war in Iraq. 14 LRB 25 Feb. 2010