Title: “Reading Mastery – Level 2 Storybook 1”

Authors: Siegfried Engelmann and Elaine C. Bruner

Rank: 63,614

Blurb: “The book is part of the 31 volume Reading Mastery series published by the SRA Macmillan early-childhood education division of McGraw-Hill. It uses the Direct Instruction (DI) teaching method, which was originally developed by Engelmann and Wesley C. Becker.”

Review: “This is the stuff that makes great men so great. Should be required reading for leaders of men. Presidential material. I found it so rich and powerful that I had to take seven minutes to reflect and decide what to do next.”

Customers Also Bought: “The Great Derangement: A Terrifying True Story of War, Politics, and Religion”, by Matt Taibbi

Footnote: It’s the only 9/11 book you’ll ever need.

Reading Mastery [Fuck Amazon]

Oscar-winning actor Cliff Robertson dies at 88 [LAT]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fHCh_bARGo

[via Comics Alliance]

While all eyes point to NYC, DC, and PA for Sunday’s 10 year anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, overlooked in all of the media frenzy was the fact that Friday the 9th was the anniversary of another inferno.  One year ago on Friday, a neighborhood in San Bruno, California went up in flames due to the incompetence and negligence of the local utility, Pacific Gas & Electric.  If only the incompetence had been as benevolent as that seen in Stinque World Domination Headquarters last night.

To recap what is going on today, 8 people are still dead, multiple survivors are dealing with debilitating burns and other physical and emotional injuries, and half of the homes destroyed have owners who are still haggling with insurance companies over getting any money to rebuild.

Oh, and PG&E? What’s going on with them?

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“No Ponzi scheme in the history of the world has ever lasted 75 years. Ponzi schemes depend on garnering an ever-increasing pool of new investors to pay out returns to prior investors. When the potential pool of new investors runs dry, they collapse. This will occur when the scheme runs up against the natural limits of its recruitment strategy; in the ultimate case, it can’t keep going past the point where the entire population is already subscribed.” [The Economist, via Daring Fireball]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1v9uZuaed4

Jon Huntsman uses a Visual Sport Metaphor in his new attack ad against Mitt Romney. Can you identify the Rookie Error?

[via Baseball Researcher]

“U.S. authorities are scrambling to sort through information that the CIA developed in the past 24 hours indicating that at least three individuals entered the U.S. in August by air with the intent to launch a vehicle-borne attack against Washington, D.C. or New York around the anniversary of 9/11, according to intelligence officials.” [ABC]