Welcome to my Tumblr blog.
I call it efink's tumblrings cuz i'm efink and tumblrings kinda sounds like rumblings or grumblings when you mash it up with tumblr. See what I did there?
I will be posting odds and ends from the world wide web, the regular ol' fashioned world and the web that is my brain.
Check out my "real" blog at http://finkorswim.com for more substantial stuff. I mostly blog about law, Judaism, social commentary, sports.
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Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
A TED speaker’s worst nightmare…
(Source: ted.com)
Eleanor Roosevelt
(Source: en.wikiquote.org)
The Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom, Lord Jonathan Sacks
(Source: youtu.be)
Hall v. Vallandingham, 540 A.2d 1162, Md. App. (1988).
Bono (As seen on http://www.skibikejunkie.com/2009/08/in-order-to-defeat-monster.html. HT @makeforyourself)
At the California Science Center. The communication section needs an updating… Maybe they can move this next door to the History Museum!
Aliso Beach, Laguna CA.
This is how we roll on December 26! It’s 80 degrees.
A great Chanukah song and a great version courtesy of @azigra.
Christopher Hitchens
(Source: The New York Times)
Nice mug! (Clearly, the man is not abandoning orthodox Judaism.)
(Source: wnyc.org)
Matisyahu
(Source: wnyc.org)
Federal standards for ground-level ozone, the main component in smog, were tightened in 2008. This happened when George W. Bush was president. Little was said because establishment opinion did not want to acknowledge that a conservative Republican backed the tightening of anti-smog standards. When, a few months ago, Barack Obama decided not to support another tightening of regulations against smog, establishment opinion was shocked. How could a liberal Democratic not support stricter environmental rules!
Here, The New York Times recounts how Obama reached his decision, laboring to make the story sound appalling. Never mentioned is that smog is already declining under the existing standard — and has been declining steadily for about 30 years. No mainstream media account of the Obama decision, among those seen by your columnist at least, mentioned that smog is already declining anyway. If you know that, the shock value goes poof.
(Source: ESPN)