Nota Bene #116: Long Live Elena Pavlichenko

“I think women rule the world and that no man has ever done anything that a woman either hasn’t allowed him to do or encouraged him to do.” Who said it? The answer is at the end of this post. Now on to the links! … “None of it feels all that special anymore” … “Married at 14, the mother of seven, Kakuben Lalabhai Parmar was well into adulthood before she came face-to-face with a man who was not a close relative” … “We cannot continue to proceed like this” … “We file new complaints every day” … “Researchers found that deleting the appropriately named FucM gene causes masculinization of the mouse brain” … “Kashkari and his colleagues should have the common decency to just SHUT THE FUCK UP” … “My name is not Obama” … “He sat there the whole time and didn’t really care if I was taking photos of him or not” … “When I heard she was alive I was in shock” … “I know there are those who will accuse me of exaggeration when I say this” … “It needs to happen soon or it will be too late” … “At last the 35 voices have been reunited!” … “Ill-advised photos and online chatter are coming back to haunt people months or years after the fact” … “Some were puzzled, many laughed, and a couple were furious” … “How I’m here, talking to you now, I really don’t know” … “Today I quit being a Christian” … “We must mature into the species we are moving towards, one which embodies and embraces new worlds and new ways of life scarcely imagined in the past or even now” … “Many victims are abandoned by their husbands and looked down upon by society” … “189 out of 443 cities suffered from acid rain in the first half of the year” … “This is the only way that we can put an end to the recycling of a failed strategic framework” … “Hello again, Pripyat” … “He told me that he does not cry anymore, but he is still afraid” … “It doesn’t seem like we’re doing too badly, nor that desperation or frustration have been our companions along the way” … “An Afghan girl who fixes potholes waits” … “I’ll go to my grave wishing that I’d been better” … “Perhaps you know William Gottlieb‘s name; perhaps not” … “We’re inside a black hole that exists in another universe” … “I miss being a child” … “My story with photography is quite unusual” … “It’s going to be a lot easier for him now to say who he is” … “If I don’t shut him down, I think we all might be in very serious trouble” … “Each year sharks kill some five to eight humans worldwide; meanwhile we kill a hundred million of them” … “If no one stops them, how long do you think it will take before 4 or 5 mega-corporations effectively control the flow of information in America not only on television but online?” … “That’s the most amazing thing I’d ever heard!” … “Christ, I thought, this is not good, this could be the bloody end right here” … “I hate to say this, but I’m 70 years old and I’ve never had a real job” … “I used to avoid talking about it for fear of being labelled a crank” … This issue’s quote was from Bob Dylan … And finally, “I get to crank it up as loud as I want.” ∞