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The Wasilla High School yearbook archive now doubles as a veritable directory of state government. Ms. Palin appointed Mr. Bitney, her former junior high school band-mate, as her legislative director and chose another classmate, Joe Austerman, to manage the economic development office for $82,908 a year.
— JO BECKER, PETER S. GOODMAN and MICHAEL POWELL, Once Elected, Palin Hired Friends and Lashed Foes
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Tonight, Sarah Palin crystallized the McCain campaign’s main strategy against Barack Obama: withering sarcasm.
— Christopher Beam, Trailhead : Snark Attack
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You can tell if you are avoiding personal growth in your career because you are not feeling challenged. You can tell if you are not feeling challenged if you are not scared. Being scared is what makes life interesting. You should be scared that you are going to fail at something because if you are not then you are not trying hard to do something difficult.
— Penelope Trunk, Five signs that your career is about to get vapid
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“Trash is clogging the arteries of the planet,” Earle said. “We’re beginning to wake up to the fact that the planet is not infinitely resilient.” For ages humanity saw in the ocean a sublime grandeur suggestive of eternity. No longer. Surveying the debris on remote beaches like Gore Point, we see that the ocean is more finite than we’d thought. Now it is the sublime grandeur of our civilization but also of our waste that inspires awe.
— Donovan Hohn, Sea of Trash - Pollution in the World's Oceans
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In all the national debate about the economy, I find it disturbing that our politicians and thinkers don’t have the courage to say, “Cut back on the unessentials. Let’s return to simpler values.” Then talk about helping with mortgages and oil prices makes sense. But giving us a tax refund so we’ll go shopping in order to help the economy is cowardly.
— ringo (commenter), Are We Poorer Than Our Parents?: Apartment Therapy
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