A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
-Lazarus Long, Time Enough For Love
According to Jeff Shaara in his book Civil War Battlefields
In his book, This Just In: What I Couldn’t Tell You on TV
The authors of Freakonomics relate an interesting story about the KKK after WWII. Wanting to combat the rise of the KKK, activist Stetson Kennedy went undercover and infiltrated the group. In attempt to discredit the organization and expose their covert practices, Kennedy gave the writers of the Superman radio drama detailed information about the workings of the KKK, including secret codewords and details of Klan rituals. The writers produced four episodes of the radio show chronicling the super hero fighting the Klan. The authors contend that the radio show episodes had a negative impact on the Klan and hastened it’s demise.
According to authors Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner in their book Freakonomics
If you both own a gun and have a swimming pool in the backyard, the swimming pool is about 100 times more likely to kill a child than the gun is.
Bob Schieffer in his book This Just In: What I Couldn’t Tell You on TV
Another interesting thing gleaned from the article is that the prison ordered 1,600 Korans to the tune of $23,000.
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According to author Dr. William Welty, Thomas Jefferson obtained the Koran to research Islam and better equip himself to deal with an enemy, the radical Muslim Barbary Pirates.
http://www.khouse.org/articles/2007/691/
According to John Stossel in his book Lies, Myths and Downright Stupidity
