Asinine Alliteration

leeshiebean:

(via: emilyposts:abudak)

Cologne blew me away for many reasons, but one of the coolest things I saw is on the Hohenzollern Bridge near the Cathedral and Hauptbahnhof.  Couples write their names on padlocks and then attach them to the chainlink fence which stretches across the Rhine river.  If I had to guess, I’d say there are close to 10,000 locks on the bridge, which makes for quite a cool public monument.  Some photos:

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I want to see this.

Jordan is a stable, pro-Western Arab country, which signed a peace agreement with Israel — a peace that has survived grave challenges in recent years. What’s more, Jordan is a signatory to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, which explicitly allows participants to enrich uranium for peaceful power production. And the king has continuously affirmed his willingness for transparency on all matters relating to the production of nuclear power plants.

-YOSSI BEILIN

Jordan needs this.  Their neighbors need this.  US Administration:  concentrate on the OIL LEAK and forget about this.  It’s none of your business.  Otherwise, ante up and sign the treaty as well.  Hm?

…Gulati did not seem to agree with American fans who insist it is time to hire a major European coach.

“An American coach understands the mentality of the American player,” Gulati said.

He added that he would be interested in an American coach who had played in a World Cup final and had coached in a World Cup final, “but we don’t have one of those.”

Actually, he does have Jürgen Klinsmann, who coached Germany to third place in 2006 and played for the 1990 West German champions, living in California. But Gulati could not quite meet all of Klinsmann’s demands at the end of 2006, which is when Bradley was hired.

Klinsmann as US coach in 2014.  I would have to buy a US Jersey.  Germany would still be my team despite my passport.

guy:

I like Lifework’s series of quick interviews that focus on what coffee our favorite purveyors of web content are drinking.

This is brilliant.  Craving coffee now, darn it.

guy:

“It isn’t possible that they are encrypting messages in all of this stuff. Some of these guys are just perverts.” A DOD analyst on the gobs of porn they have to sift through on captured al-Queda computers. From The Atlantic’s article on the ineptitude of most terrorists.

HAHA!