w00t for Webster's

Via Robin Meade this morning, Webster's 2007 word of the year is w00t!

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Quote of the Day

From Penelope Trunk:

I sense that people are going to argue with me here, but please consider that all the positive psychology research points to the fact that work does not make people happy. Relationships do. But we see the history of people with Asperger’s - Einstein, Mozart, John Forbes Nash - they did amazing work but could not maintain stable, intimate relationships.

Truth: The Future Generations

A very self-important college freshman attending a recent football game, took it upon himself to explain to a senior citizen sitting next to him why it was impossible for the older generation to understand his generation.

"You grew up in a different world, actually an almost primitive one," the student said, loud enough for many of those nearby to hear. "The young people of today grew up with television, jet planes, space travel, man walking on the moon, our spaceships have visited Mars. We have nuclear energy, electric and hydrogen cars, computers with light-speed processing and," pausing to take another drink of beer.

The Senior took advantage of the break in the student's litany and said, "You're right, son. We didn't have those things when we were young........so we invented them. Now, you arrogant little shit, what are you doing for the next generation?"

The applause was resounding... I love senior citizens!

Quoteworthy: Immigration

An oldy but a goody landed in my inbox this morning.

The American Indians found out what happens when you don't control immigration.