Alan D Granger

“Walden Pond into large chunks of global commodity prompted Henry David Thoreau to quip, “Thus it appears that the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well.” Frozen New England gave the South one of its symbols of hospitality, ice tea.10”
― Jack Emerson Davis, The Gulf: The Making of An American Sea

“the president of Egypt called in to the switchboard at Trump Tower and somehow got the operator to put him straight through to Trump. “Trump was like . . . I love the Bangles! You know that song ‘Walk Like an Egyptian’?” recalled one of his advisers on”
― Michael Lewis, The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy

“Dan Satterfield, a meteorologist on CBS’s Maryland affiliate, wrote. “This kind of thing should be condemned, and if you have an AccuWeather app on your smartphone, my advice is to stand up for science and replace it.”
― Michael Lewis, The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy

“improvement in all weather predictions. The five-day-out forecast in 2016 was as accurate as the one-day-out forecast had been in 2005. In just the last few years, for the first time in history, a meteorologist’s forecast of how hot it will be nine days from now is better than just guessing.”
― Michael Lewis, The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy