Quote Of The Day

The odds of you having your own DNA may be a quadrillion to one, but I’ll bet you have it anyway.

Daughter Rules

1. Eat what you want, as much as you want.

2. They do what they do, and we do what we do.

3. You are who you are, not what people say you are.

4. We don't talk business at the table. [I said it once and now she has adopted it and repeats it.]

5. A place for everything and everything in its place.

6. That's why they put erasers on the ends of pencils.

Do You Sight Read?

fi yuo cna raed tihs, yuo hvae a sgtrane mnid too [No, you don't. It only means you can sight read. --nk]
Cna yuo raed tihs? Olny 55 plepoe out of 100 can.
i cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a wrod are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it whotuit a pboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt!

And yes, sight reading does hurt your spelling. You see it when you're trying to write something.

When I Looked Into Putin's Eyes I Saw Three Letters: K, G and B

I should have voted for McCain in 2000.

H/t Dmac.

Greek Wedding

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Patterico's L.A. Novel Noir

In an original piece of investigative reporting, Patterico wends his way through a maze of perjury, extortion and journalistic malfeasance, spiced with murder and arson, worthy of a James Elroy novel except that it happens to be real life.