Quote: “There are new shadows over the pens created by the solar arrays. It’s a large canopy that offers a form of protection. Now, with the absence of the noise of the turbines and disturbance of the fuel delivery vessels, the farm is an ocean oasis. The fish farmers are thrilled, but who’s moved into the basement?”
To find out, click here. (h/t Fix the News)

Truer words were never spoken. The thing about trust funds is that the people who blow through them aren’t the people who built them, so who cares? (Heather Cox Richardson)

Quote: “Restaurant dining in America was once an imitation: wannabe aristocrats attempting French feasting. But as the 19th became the 20th century, the American middle class and the true American restaurant emerged: diverse, accessible, opinionated, and, at times, chaotic.” Dana sez, Where are the Harvey House menus? But a fun time sink nonetheless. (h/t Kottke, or maybe The Best of Journalism?)

People in authority never learn that making a fuss out of nothing makes the nothing something and usually a much bigger something than it ever was before they got all fussed and bothered. AKA it’s never the crime, it’s always the coverup. (Read it here, Wired’s The Big Story)

This. Looks. FABULOUS. Foghorn Leghorn for the prosecution! August 28th.

Quote for the day

Were it not for the Democratic Party, we would not have Social Security and Medicare…Were it not for the Republican Party, we might still hold humans in slavery. Political parties matter… They exist to joust in the battle of ideas, and to elect candidates. —Art Cullen

Outro…wow.

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