The Sunday of Doom But he just learned that the Church of Sweden never followed the suggestion of Pope Pius XI, in 1925, and instituted the feast of Christ the King. Instead, since 1921 the Swedes have called the final Sunday of the church year Domssoendagen, or “The Sunday of Doom.” | November 21, 2013 | Magdalene’s Egg
An Armored Hoodie | I am Knight
This is How We Die Now Every year, premature death ‚Äî that is, death attributable to causes other than old age ‚Äî deprives people of a combined 1.7 billion years of life they could have enjoyed. 1.7 billion years. Think of everything those people could have done ‚Äî the children they could have had, the jobs they could have done, the people they could have loved, the things they could have created that now won’t be. | November 20, 2013 | Washington Post via The Big Picture
Which charts to bring up when someone says we have a spending problem, not a revenue problem. | November 10, 2013 | The Big Picture
What a wild picture of the sun | November 19, 2013 | io9
For the bottom 90%, income in 2012 dropped by 10.7% compared to 2002. | November 11, 2013 | WSJ via The Big Picture