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.
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Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
A TED speaker’s worst nightmare…
(Source: ted.com)
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.
Eleanor Roosevelt
(Source: en.wikiquote.org)
The tragedy of religion is that it can lead people to wage war in the name of the God of peace, to hate in the name of the God of love, to practise cruelty in the name of the God of compassion and to kill in the name of the God of life. None of these things brings honour to faith; they are a desecration of the name of God.
The Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom, Lord Jonathan Sacks
(Source: youtu.be)
The Legislature giveth, and the Legislature taketh away.
Hall v. Vallandingham, 540 A.2d 1162, Md. App. (1988).
We’d like to turn our song into a prayer. And the prayer is that we don’t become a monster, in order to defeat a monster. That’s our prayer tonight.
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.
Suppose I ditch the principles I have held for a lifetime, in the hope of gaining favor at the last minute? I hope and trust that no serious person would be at all impressed by such a hucksterish choice.
Christopher Hitchens
(Source: The New York Times)
Nice mug! (Clearly, the man is not abandoning orthodox Judaism.)
(Source: wnyc.org)
The idea that God’s mercy is connected to whether or not I shave is ludicrous.
Matisyahu
(Source: wnyc.org)
Excellent Stuff From TMQ on the Environment and Government Hypocrisy
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)
