When all of Wikipedia's "featured articles" are printed out, it looks like this:
That, I repeat, is only the featured articles — the articles that the editors consider to be the best articles in terms of style, completeness, etc.
There are 2,545 featured articles on Wikipedia, out of a total of 2,916,034 articles in all.
Therefore, if you printed all the Wikipedia information into paper form, it would come out to about 1,150 of these monstrosities.
Take that, Enclyclopedia Brittanica.
Ten minutes: The time it took Maryland Zoo's prarie dogs to escape from their new $500,000 habitat which was essentially 80 truckloads of sand and clay built over a large concrete bowl (to prevent burrowing), with waist-high glass walls (coated with material to make it slippery) and wire fencing.
This is typical of the rightwing reaction to what's happening in Iran — Bill Kristol:
This isn’t September 1939. But the developments in Tehran are a potentially big moment, signaling the possible transformation or at least reformation of the Iranian regime. American principles and American interests argue for support of the Iranian people in this crisis.
And where is the American president? Silent.
Of course he's silent.
What's he going to do?
Condemn post-election violence? Can't we take that as a "given"? Does he need to come out and say this right away?
Tell everyone Mousavi won? Well, we don't know that. Not yet.
Express support for the protesters? No. The last thing Obama should do right now is come out in favor of the protesters. As Spencer Ackerman notes, any expression of political support for the protesters would only “instigate the cry that the reformers are somehow driven and directed by the United States, whether under [former President George W. Bush] or under Obama, and there’s no reason to give that unfounded allegation” any chance to spread.
Ultimately, the Iranian people have to choose their destiny. And we should support them. But not lead them. Be two steps behind the reformists; not two steps in front of them. And, to the extent we get involved, it should be as a somewhat muted member of the international community.
Obama is right to remain silent, and when he speaks on this issue, he should speak on the human rights and violence angle. Conservative critics of Obama don't seem to think about this: they would rather have a President who shoots from the hip, instead being the President that we elected — a serious man who contemplates the outcomes of his actions.
It's all a little hard to digest, so I don't have much to say. One really hoped for a non-fraudulent election there, with the popular pro-reform candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi emerging victorious, but it really looks like something odd and unsavory occurred. (For example, Mousavi was leading Ahmadinejad by 2 to 1 in Tehran in a poll last week, but Ahmadinejad won Tehran 52% to 46% in the reported election results).
John Cole outlines the top pieces of evidence suggesting election fraud. But see WaPo analysis saying the election results might actually be correct.
Election statistician extraordinaire Nate Silver is stumped and explains why.
Andrew Sullivan has a great collection of photos, YouTubes, and tweets from inside Iran, where upwards of 3 million people are protesting in spite of the ban on public protesting.
Nico Pitney is liveblogging the uprising over at The Huffington Post.
UPDATE: Real-time reporting on Twitter by guys like this one are beating the mainstream media all to hell. He just tweeted about shootings in Azadi Square. In fact, mainstream media pretty much has no access to Iran, so it too is following tweets.
I'm increasingly becoming a fan of Sher Zieve of Renew America and her over-the-top columns. This week's gem is:
Obama and his syndicate operating outside of US law
by Sher Zieve
I was wondering why the scarcity of capital letters in her op-ed title, and then I realized she used them all up in her opening sentence:
ObamaLaw (and increasingly the following of ONLY ObamaLaw) is now the official decree of DIC (Dictator in Chief) Obama in and for Obama-Land — formerly known as the United States of America.
Wow, that's a grabber.
Think that statement is an exaggeration?
ObamaLaw is now the official decree of the dictator Obama? Why, yes, Sher. That does strike me as a bit of an exaggeration.
Really?
Really.
Well — let's take a look, shall we?
Ok-a-lee-doke-a-lee.
The Obama Thugocracy has commandeered the largest banks in the USA for its personal use. Although the Obama Syndicate's monetary resources are not yet — completely — unlimited, they soon will be.
Obama Thugocracy? Or Obama Syndicate? Which is it?
By the way, where has this money gone? The definition of Obama Transparency is to hide from any and all for as long as possible.
And now it's "Obama Transparency"? You know, it's kind of like McDonalds, where they stick the prefix "Mc" in front of every noun.
And bear in mind, he is using OUR money to both extort the banks and rule more powerfully over We-the-People. Behind closed doors, the banks were told by President George W. Bush's former US Treasury Secretary and Obama supporter Henry Paulson that they must agree to take government bailout money "or else."
"Extort the banks"? I'm not a lawyer but — oh, wait — yes, I am…. and I'm pretty sure that you don't commit extortion by forcing people to take money. That said, one wonders what the Obama Consequences are for those many many banks which didn't take government bailout money. Probably Obama Torture.
This has come to be known as "an offer they couldn't refuse."
That phrase comes, of course, from The Godfather, when Don Corleone went around bailing out industries.
This "offer" was followed by DIC Obama's comment to the bank CEOs: "My administration is the only thing between you and the pitchforks!" Note: This is a Jesse Jackson-type shakedown that has been taken to previously untried monumental levels. See Ken Timmerman's book "Shakedown" for complete information.
Actually, Obama's comment regarding pitchforks was in reference to the anger that the general public feels for bailed-out banks giving excessive bonuses to managers who created the financial mess in the first place.
And I'm not sure what the Jesse Jackson reference is about, but I'm pretty sure it can be ignnored.
Threatening private enterprise — if it does not submit and allow ObamaTheft — with the weight of the US Government is not only unconstitutional it veritably screams and shouts that the US government has now become a massive criminal enterprise — increasingly run by Obama and his accountable-to-no-one-but-Obama Czars.
It's not unconstitutional in the Obama Constitution.
Using similar gangster-tactics that worked with the cowering bank CEOs, Obama has taken over two of the US' car companies. One of them, Government Motors (formerly known as General Motors), was seized by the Obama Syndicate and its spoils split between it and the United Auto Workers union leadership.
I'm picking up a theme…
Again, the Obama dictatorship used We-the-People's money to finance its deal that places OUR money and power into the pockets of the Obama political elite — and only those political elite.
Aaahh! So it's a profit deal!
Unconstitutional? Of course. Criminal? Of course. So — is anyone trying to stop Obama's unconstitutional and criminal seizure of US power? Of course — NOT.
Oh, she fooled me. I thought the third one was going to be another "of course" and then she threw that "NOT" in.
It appears the former "loyal opposition" is also cowering in fear of and from the US dictator.
Not Sher though. She tells it like it is…. without exaggeration.
Additional information on Obama's confiscation of 2/3 of the US Auto Industry is that his new "Car Czar" Steven Rattner — who has thus far avoided any and all interviews from the press and any and all questions from Congress — is a 31 year old lawyer whose only experience with cars is that of having driven them or having been driven while in them. Obama — in his unswerving despotic "wisdom" — has also appointed another 'I know nothing about the auto industry' guys — former AT&T Chief Edward E. Whitacre, Jr. as Chairman of GM.
Sher, honey. It's not about cars. It's about business. It's about corporate structuring. Oh, and by the way, you think GM's management has done a bang-up job?
In other words, GM is neither expected nor planned to be successful. Instead — like both Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac — the new Government Motors appears to be no more than a new giant slush fund for Democrats.
"Appears"?
A smiling Obama has already admitted that the US is out of money. It's amazing that by Obama having placed his mind and adherents to the task he was able to successfully bankrupt the country in no time at all! Sadly, I predicted this almost a year ago.
Isn't that amazing? What Sher believed would come true has actually come true! I can't find any reasonable explanation for this, other than the fact that she is the smartest person in the world.
However, Obama also states that he has no intention of slowing his spending. Instead, he will simply authorize the printing of more increasingly worthless US money. Then, he will tax…tax…tax the American people to death as he works toward his next arena for destruction — the US Energy industry; which will increase yearly/family energy costs by at least $4,000.
You mean the Obama Energy Industry. Please get your names right.
All the while, Obama remains smiling at the stupid masses who allowed the "election" of a non-citizen usurper to the presidency of the United States.
Hey. You're insulting your audience, Sher.
And, in order to further ensure the subservience of the former American people (soon to be called Obamaites) the US Dictator in Chief plans to control the US Health System. In this way, Obama, his "Health Czar" and his soon-to-be-established Department of Health Police will be able to dictate who receives medical care and who does not (therefore ultimately who lives and who dies), what We-the-People can eat and not eat, what actions we can engage in and those in which we are not allowed to engage etc. etc. etc. After seizing heathcare from the private sector and placing it firmly in Obama's governmental hands his power over us will be unlimited. And with no one having the testosterone or internal fortitude to stand up to him, Obama's position of US Dictator for Life is only a moment or two away.
I'm sure we'll someday read an article where Sher exclaims that her prediction regarding health care has come true.
Once the US was a government of laws — not men. Now, however, it has degraded into a government of one man; a man who does not even appear to be a natural-born US citizen as required by the US Constitution.
Plus, he's black.
But, until and unless anyone decides to fight for its preservation, the US Constitution is now null and void. Then, to add more insult to more injury, the Obama Administration is now requiring that "high value terrorist detainees" INSIDE OF AFGHANISTAN be given US Miranda Rights. Folks, sanity has not only left the building it has left the country. The totalitarian insane are now firmly and unequivocally in charge and running the country — into the abyss.
Not that she's exaggerating or anything.
In Human Events:
Having lost the Congress in 2006 and the White House in 2008, Republicans are looking to redefine themselves for a nation that still leans conservative but is less Republican that it has been in decades.
"Leans conservative" based on….?
The nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the U.S. Supreme Court presents just such an opportunity. For, even if the party loses the battle and Sotomayor sits on the court, it can win the war, as Ronald Reagan won the Panama Canal debate, even as Senate Republicans committed collective suicide by voting to give away the canal.
We all remember that, right?
What are the grounds for rejecting Sonia Sotomayor?
Pat would like to reject her on the grounds of being Latina, but he can't just come out and say that. So….
No one has brought forth the slightest evidence she has the intellectual candlepower to sit on the Roberts court. By her own admission, Sotomayor is an "affirmative action baby."
Though the Obama media have been ballyhooing her brilliance — No. 1 in high school, No. 1 at Princeton, editor of Yale Law Review — her academic career appears to have been a fraud from beginning to end, a testament to Ivy League corruption.
Let's see — #1 in high school, #1 at Princeton, editor of Yale Law Review — I think those say something about her "intellectual candlepower", yes?
Two weeks ago, The New York Times reported that, to get up to speed on her English skills at Princeton, Sotomayor was advised to read children's classics and study basic grammar books during her summers. How do you graduate first in your class at Princeton if your summer reading consists of "Chicken Little" and "The Troll Under the Bridge"?
Um, by doing those things to improve your English and then excelling academically?
In video clips dating back 25 years, and now provided to the Senate Judiciary Committee, Sotomayor, according to the Times, even calls herself an "affirmative action product."
"The clips include lengthy remarks about her experiences as an 'affirmative action baby,' whose lower test scores were overlooked by admissions committees at Princeton University and Yale Law School because, she said, she is Hispanic and had grown up in poor circumstance."
"If we had gone through the traditional numbers route of those institutions," says Sotomayor, "it would have been highly questionable if I would have been accepted. … My test scores were not comparable to that of my classmates."
Thus, Sotomayor got into Princeton, got her No. 1 ranking, was whisked into Yale Law School and made editor of the Yale Law Review — all because she was a Hispanic woman. And those two Ivy League institutions cheated more deserving students of what they had worked a lifetime to achieve, for reasons of race, gender or ethnicity.
Astute readers here will wonder as I did. Perhaps her LSAT test scores were not the asbolute best, but being #1 at Princeton probably ushered into Yale Law School. And you don't get top class ranking by virtue of your ethnicity, even in an "affirmative action" world. That comes solely from academic excellance. Same with Yale Law Review membership.
This is bigotry pure and simple.
You got that right, Pat.
To salve their consciences for past societal sins, the Ivy League is deep into discrimination again, this time with white males as victims rather than as beneficiaries.
One prefers the old bigotry. At least it was honest, and not, as Abraham Lincoln observed, adulterated "with the base alloy of hypocrisy."
Lincoln was, of course, talking about the bigotry against white men, as we all recall from history.
As the Times reports, on the tapes, Sotomayor rejects "the proposition that minorities must become advocates of 'selection by merit alone.' She said diversity improved the legal system."
"'Since I have difficultly defining merit and what merit alone means, and … whether it's judicial or otherwise, I accept that different experiences, in and of itself, bring merit to the system,' she said, adding, 'I think it brings to the system more of a sense of fairness when these litigants see people like myself on the bench."
What does the latest Times revelation tell us?
That were it not for Ivy League dishonesty, Sotomayor would not have gotten into Princeton, would never have been ranked first in her class, would not have gotten into Yale Law, nor been named editor of Yale Law Review, and thus would not be a U.S. appellate court judge today or a nominee to the Supreme Court.
No. Again, affirmative action does not give anyone heightened class ranking. It may have given her access to Princeton, but once she was there, her first-in-class ranking was all her own. If anything, this shows the rightness of affirmative action, and how it allows qualified people in.
Indeed, the White House itself leaked that the final four court candidates were all women and Sotomayor was picked because she was a Latina. One wonders how many superior students and judges have been passed over to advance Sonia Sotomayor's career?
To Pat, "superior" = "white male"
From college days to court days, that career reflects, in word and deed, a determination to use any power she achieves to create a society where the demands of diversity triumph over the ideal of equal justice under law. For Sotomayor, the advancement of people of color over white males is justice.
Like she did in all those discrimination cases she rejected?
Republican senators should use this Sotomayor nomination to put affirmative action in the dock for what it is — race-based bigotry against white males so that persons of color can receive the rewards of society that they could not win in free and fair competition.
Lay out the Sotomayor record — SAT scores, LSAT scores, bar exam score, law review articles and her opinions — so that we can see up close what those who eviscerated Robert Bork regard as academic and judicial excellence.
Interesting how he doesn't mention her grades.
No need for name-calling.
No, that would be too obvious.
Just lay out the lady's opinions and record, so that, if she is elevated, Americans can say: Barack Obama voted against Chief Justice Roberts because Roberts could not measure up to Sonia Sotomayor, his ideal of what a justice ought to be.
Roberts went to Harvard, which has 40% legacy admissions. "Free and fair competition"?
Glenn Beck, via Salon, via Steve Benen:
On his show Wednesday, Beck tried to puzzle out the political meaning of the attack on the U.S. Holocaust Museum. Alleged shooter James Von Brunn, Beck said, is "a lone gunman nutjob." Fair enough. "You're going to see a lot of nutjobs coming out of the woodwork now." Uh-oh. Scarier still, all of our enemies may be working together. "They'd like to destroy us and they will work with anyone," Beck says ominously.
You see, crazed militants, whether Islamists or white supremacists like Von Brunn, are responding to increasing "pressure." Beck doesn't excuse political violence, but he does see a cause. Several, actually. "It's the economy, it is political correctness, it's corruption in Washington, it's the militant Islam. It's all of these things."
This seems like a rather typical laundry list of conservative complaints with current affairs, and not too far off from the factors listed in the Department of Homeland Security report that Beck scoffs at. (Of the report, Beck protests that violence "is not the work of right-wing conservatives.") Then, to top it off, Beck throws in the General Motors bailout as another "pressure," drawing an amen from guest Harry Binswanger. Binswanger adds that this sort of violence is "a leftist phenomenon." "Right," says Beck.
Shorter Glenn Beck: "This country's move to the political left is the root cause of violent rightwing terrorism, and we should surrender to the terrorists before it gets worse."
RELATED: A must-read cataloging the incidents of right-wing violence since Obama was elected — there's more than you probably think.
GREEN BAY, Wis. – Ten-year-old Kennedy Corpus has a rock-solid excuse for missing the last day of school: a personal note to her teacher from President Barack Obama.
Her father, John Corpus of Green Bay, stood to ask Obama about health care during the president's town hall-style meeting at Southwest High School on Thursday. He told Obama that his daughter was missing school to attend the event and that he hoped she didn't get in trouble.
"Do you need me to write a note?" Obama asked. The crowd laughed, but the president was serious.
On a piece of paper, he wrote: "To Kennedy's teacher: Please excuse Kennedy's absence. She's with me. Barack Obama." He stepped off the stage to hand-deliver the note — to Kennedy's surprise.
"I thought he was joking until he started walking down," Kennedy said after the event, showing off the note in front of a bank of television cameras. "It was like the best thing ever."
The fourth-grader at Aldo Leopold elementary in Green Bay already knew what she was going to do with the note: frame it along with her ticket to the event. She said she'd make a copy for her teacher.
Kennedy said she had never seen Obama before. "He's really nice," she said.
From Debbie Schlussel, in a post entitled "So What If The Holocaust Museum Shooter Is A White Christian…..?":
Make no mistake. Muslims created this atmosphere where hatred of the Jews is okay and must be "tolerated" as a legitimate point of view. The shooting today is just yet another manifestation emanating from that viewpoint–another manifestation of the welcome mat that Muslims rolled out for fellow anti-Semites of all stripes to no longer be afraid to come out of the closet.
Right. So it's still the fault of Muslims and 9/11. Because anti-Semites would just be sitting there quietly had those brown-skinned people not "opened the door".
I guess that whole Nazi thing back in the 30's and 40's was also Muslim-inspired.
Carrie Prejean will lose her Miss California USA crown today because she doesn't play well with others.
Sources connected with the pageant tell us even Donald Trump has now had it with Carrie, because she's violating her contract by not getting clearance to do her extracurricular stuff.
It's all unfolding now.
Two people (perhaps 3) shot by a gunman in the Holocaust Musuem in D.C.. The gunman was also apparently shot and is in custody.
Too early, of course, to determine the motive, but since it was at the Holocaust Museum, one can surmise that the shooter was anti-Jew. From there, it's not a far leap to suppose that the shooter was an islamic terrorist of some sort.
Then again, news reports say that the shooter was a white male "born in 1920" which doesn't exactly fit the "islamic terrorist" profile. Could be just a demented old guy.
UPDATE: Some sketchy reports that the shooter may not survive.
UPDATE: MSNBC saying the shooter "had possible connections to hate groups or anti-government groups". If this turns out to be true, and at this point — who knows, this is another of those right wing extremist (like the Dr. Tiller murderer) that the DHS warned us about.
Ironically, this is what the Holocaust Museum looks like — can you read the red banner?
UPDATE: I got this from Twitter (really, the best place to get breaking news). The gunman's name is James Von Brunn (confirmed by MSNBC just seconds ago)
My Google searches find this comment by James Von Brunn at a site called "The Black Jesus":
Jesus Christs tells us to love our enemies, forgive them, turn the other cheek, give them our cloak and coat; give away our personal belongings and follow Him. Have you done this?
Do you know any alleged Christians that have ?
Nietzsche said, “The last Christian died on the cross.”
One cannot love your neighbors and segregate them. Therefore. Multi-cukturalism is a prerequisite to being Christian. It is for that reason the POPE advocates open borders with Mexico. The word CATHOLIC means “UNIVERSAL” The Churdh ALWAYS has sought a united World under CHRIST. The ILLUMINATI too seeks One World Government – which may be why Henry Kissinger, ZIONIST, visits the Vatican so frequently.
He's apparently an artist. But he's mostly known as a white supremicist: see here and here. Here's his hate website: http://www.holywesternempire.org/
His site's bio:
Here's his wikipedia profile, as written by him(?)….
User: James W. von Brunn, b.1920, attempted to place the Federal Resrve Board of Governors under legal, non-violent citizens arrest, 12-7-81. Von Brunn charged the FED with treason and other high crimes. The FED, a private stock-company, owned by International bankers, financed the construction of manufacturing plants in the Soviet Union during the "Cold War." War materials, produced by FED financed plants, were used by the Enemy against American military forces in Viet Nam, and elsewhere.
Von Brunn was tried and convicted by a Washington, D.C. kangaroo court; then sentenced to eleven years in federal prison by Judge Harriet Rosen Taylor; the sentence was confirmed by a racially motivated Appeals Court. Von Brunn was imprisoned for 6.5-years.
Von Brunn champions Western Culture,and the practice of Eugenics. He states that Marxism-Multiculturalism-Judaism is the Enemy of Mankind.citing Talmudic quotes to "Kill the Best Gentiles !"
Von Brunn was president of his college fraternity, SAE. He served as PT-Boat captain, USNR, during WW2, earning 4-battle stars and a Commendation Ribbon. His early business career was in NYC as copywriter, art-director and film producer; later as a real-estate broker; and lastly as a writer-artist.
He also wrote a treatise entitled "Kill The Best Gentiles!". Here's the Table of Contents:
1. The Conspiracy
2. Khazars Invent Judaism
3. The Illuminati
4. Money
5. Spirochetes of Jew Syphilis
6. The “Holocaust” Hoax
7. Mendelism
8. The Negro
9. The Aryan Force
10. Parasitism USA
11. Pathology and Synthesis
12. Summing Up
APPENDIX
Glossary
Bibliography
Distinguished Personages
EXHIBITS:
Arson
Letter to US SecNav Webb
Letter from Admiral Crommelin
Gen. Anderson news item
Letter to Talbot County Council Star-Democrat:
Two (2) editorials in re Genetics
Poem by Josephine Beaty
Cicero ii
In a recent blog post, Von Brunn wrote that Hitler's "worst mistake" was that "he didn't gas the Jews."
I think we've got a good understanding of this guy….
UPDATE: Brian Williams of NBC reports that he lives in New Hampshire…
UPDATE: Also appears to be a sucker for the "Fox News" propaganda (Obama isn't really an American, etc….)
John Cole reacts:
How many acts of right-wing terrorism have to occur before DHS is allowed to start keeping track of it?
I really don’t get the conservative reaction to the original DHS pronouncement. No one is trying to lump angry Red State commenters in with honest-to-God terrorists…except, weirdly enough, the Red State commenters themselves.
There are crazy people out there shooting up abortion clinics and Holocaust museums. These people identify with causes normally described as right-wing. Deal with it. Tea bag away to your heart’s content. It’s not til you start plotting to kill people that DHS should take an interest. If anyone starts spying on you prior to that, then I, the ACLU, and dirty hippies everywhere will support your grievances.
Well said.
To answer this question, David Leonhardt of the New York Times crunches the numbers (from the CBO). The self-explanatory results are in this graph (click to embiggen all the way):
The GOP is gearing up to paint the deficits as "Obama's fault". And clearly, Obama has, by his own admission, run up deficits in order to get the economy back on track. But the bleak future in terms of government debt is primarily the result of the Bush economic policies. Be on the lookout for false GOP "blame Obama" rhetoric as the months and years continue.
Leonhardt also points out that inherited or not, Obama hasn't yet provided any credible plan for reducing federal deficits in the long term. This is true, and eventually he's going to have to. The inescapable answer will includes higher taxes. Hopefully, the higher taxes will be placed on those who benefitted most under Bush's deficit-creating policies.
A revealing USA Today/Gallup poll came out this morning.
One of the findings? "One-third of Republicans now say they have an unfavorable opinion of their party." That doesn't bode well (by contrast, only 4% of Democrats have an unfavorable opinio of the Democratic Party".
But more importantly, Republicans acknowledge their huge power vacuum. A 52% majority of those surveyed couldn't come up with a name when asked to specify "the main person" who speaks for Republicans today.
And who was the top response? Rush Limbaugh. But he had only 13%.
Those figures bear little comment. The GOP is divided and rudderless. Which probably accounts for why som many Republicans have a negative opinion about the party itself.
How dumb do you have to be when you don't even follow your own side's political philosophy?
Here's Sarah Palin on Fox News:
Hannity: …The price of oil is going up again. It’s not quite at $140 a barrel, but it’s on its way up to $70 and $80…
Palin: Yeah, well and I thank God it’s not at $140. You know people say, “Hey, Alaska! 85% of your state budget is based on the price of a barrel of oil. Aren’t you glad the price is going up?” I say, “No!” The fewer dollars that the state of Alaska government has, the fewer dollars we spend. And that’s good for our families and for the private sector.
Sarah, let me explain your party's position. Republicans don't like government spending because it means either (a) the country runs a deficit and/or (b) the government will have to raise taxes on the people in order to pay for that spending. Running a deficit and raising taxes, according to conservative philosophy, is bad for families and the private sector.
In other words, even Republicans don't believe that government revenue itself is bad; their issue is with the source of revenue, which is almost always taxation.
But when oil prices go up, that money goes to the Alaskan people, who spend that money, which is good for the private sector. See how that works? So as governor of Alaska, you should be loving high oil prices.
I'm sure Sarah's position that high oil prices are bad for Alaskans comes to news as Alaskans. Hard to believe they elected her as governor.
Besides, if Sarah thinks that Alaskans getting a lot of money from high oil prices is a bad thing, she should simply cut back on Alaska's oil production so they won't be cursed with high oil revenues, or withhold a portion of the revenues that each Alaska citizen receives, or (best of all) share those terrible revenues with the rest of the country.
I don't know how they keep track, but apparently somebody keeps track:
English contains more words than any other language on the planet and added its millionth word early Wednesday, according to the Global Language Monitor, a Web site that uses a math formula to estimate how often words are created.
The site estimates the millionth English word, "Web 2.0" was added to the language Wednesday at 5:22 a.m. ET. The term refers to the second, more social generation of the Internet.
The site says more than 14 words are added to English every day, at the current rate.
"Web 2.0" isn't really a word, though. It's a phrase.
