Small things 10 May

• A blizzard disproves climate change as much as an idiot disproves evolution.
• Wondering why we drew the sun in the corner of the paper as a child.
• Server in a restaurant: “Is everything OK? You haven’t photographed your food.”
• “I can summarize how I succeed as a leader: Listen to your employees, listen to your customers, shut the f--- up, and do what they tell you.”  ~John Legere (formerly T-Mobile US CEO)
• "So protest, but think of your protest like sex. You can be loud and wild and do it all night long. But when something starts to burn, you should probably stop."  ~Trevor Noah (The Daily Show)
• “An explanation of climate change from a Nobel Prize-winning physicist looks exactly the same on your Facebook page as the denial of climate change by somebody on the Koch brothers' payroll. And the capacity to disseminate misinformation, wild conspiracy theories, to paint the opposition in wildly negative light without any rebuttal — that has accelerated in ways that much more sharply polarize the electorate and make it very difficult to have a common conversation. Ideally, in a democracy, everybody would agree that climate change is the consequence of man-made behavior, because that's what 99% of scientists tell us. And then we would have a debate about how to fix it. That's how, in the seventies, eighties, and nineties, you had Republicans supporting the Clean Air Act and you had a market-based fix for acid rain rather than a command-and-control approach. So you'd argue about means, but there was a baseline of facts that we could all work off of. And now we just don't have that.”  ~Barack Obama
• Imagine the moment appetizers were introduced. “I know you’re looking forward to the meal, but before we get to that, how about we indulge in some little samples of food?”
• When Godzilla first came out, God was probably like "That name's way cooler."
• Can you trust a Doctor whose spouse sells coffins?