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Even if Congress did approve statehood, Fauntroy believed, it surely would cancel the congressional payment, then roughly 20 percent of the city’s budget—a scenario he likened to giving D.C. residents a “reservation . . . after they kill off all of the buffalo.”
Chocolate City
Chris Myers Asch, George Derek Musgrove
Ten friends decide to play a game of musical chairs and arrange ten chairs in a circle. A leader begins the game by turning on the music, and everyone begins to walk in a circle inside the chairs. The leader removes one chair, stops the music, and the ten friends scramble to find a spot to sit leaving one person without a chair. The loser, Mike, was on crutches after spraining his ankle. Given his condition, he was unable to move quickly to find a chair during the scramble that ensued.
Homelessness Is a Housing Problem
Gregg Colburn and Clayton Page Aldern
The rocks are viscous, but only in the same way that glass is. It may not look it, but all the glass on Earth is flowing downward under the relentless drag of gravity. Remove a pane of really old glass from the window of a European cathedral and it will be noticeably thicker at the bottom than at the top. That is the sort of “flow” we are talking about.
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Bill Bryson
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