Brilliantcrank

I feel embarrassed to be unaware of [nuclear winter], one that I have not even heard mentioned before. On the contrary, I would have understood much earlier that the risks of a nuclear war were far more serious than I imagined. I assumed that the planet would be able to withstand the explosion of hundreds of nuclear bombs calculating that, in both the United States and the USSR, countless tests have been carried out over the years.

— Fidel Castro, August 23, 2010.

Pretty naive for a guy who was willing to park a bunch of Soviet nukes in his country fifty years ago.

In short, the proposed community center is not just an issue on which Sarah Palin and Osama bin Laden agree. It is also one in which opponents of the center are playing into the hands of Al Qaeda.

—  Taking bin Laden’s Side by Nicholas Kristof

He then grabbed at least one beer, activated the slide, slid down and went to his car.

— Something tells me that’s not an official method for de-planeing a JetBlue flight. Though if you had some cocaine somewhere over rural Pennsylvania…

Golden Gate Bridge to get a suicide barrier. →

“A stainless-steel net, which will hang 20 ft. below the bridge to catch and cocoon jumpers in midair.” We’re spending $5M on this thing because thirty nut-jobs a year want to fall to their death. So what prevents someone from climbing out of the barrier to jump from there?

This is the first time a terrorist has managed to infiltrate the CIA and carry out an attack.

—  Newsweek