all-encompassingly

Looks like not only are we falling behind other countries in science and math, but also in basic day labor skills.

A funny poem I saw on Wikipedia today:

I take it you already know,
Of tough and bough and cough and dough.
Others may stumble, but not you,
On hiccough, thorough, laugh and through.
Well done! And now you wish, perhaps,
To learn of less familiar traps.
Beware of heard, a dreadful word,
That looks like beard and sounds like bird.
And dead – [...]

I assume they don’t let tall trucks drive on the road there…

CNN reports that more than 100,000 rare gorillas were found in Congo.
credit: diskychick
 

…or Mexico.

 
Brilliant audition on Britain’s Got Talent.

Recently, in Cincinnati, I had an unreal experience with hunger in America. Around 11:30 am on a Friday, a man approached me in a skywalk between two downtown buildings. He was hungry, he said, and could I help him out.
I didn’t have any cash on me, but I had two granola bars with me. [...]