#poll

Artemis grit her teeth. "I need a favor. I have some hunting to do, alone. I need you to take my companions to Camp Half-Blood." "Sure Sis!" then he raised his hands in a "stop everything" gesture. "I feel a haiku comIng on." The Hunters all groaned. Apparently they'd met Apollo before. He cleared his throat and held up one hand dramatically. "Green grass breaks through snow. Artemis pleads for my help. I am so awesome. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#artemis #funny #humor #percy-jackson #funny

The earth is rocky and full of roots; it's clay, and it seems doomed and polluted, but you dig little holes for the ugly shriveled bulbs, throw in a handful of poppy seeds, and cover it all over, and you know you'll never see it again - it's death and clay and shrivel, and your hands are nicked from the rocks, your nails black with soil. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#black #bulbs #clay #cover #death

Public discourse has been polluted now for decades by corporate-funded disinformation - not just with climate change but with a host of health, environmental and societal threats. The implications for the planet are grim. ↗

— Michael E. Mann

#change #climate #climate change #decades #discourse

Our own State Department polls say that 80 percent of Iraqis view the United States as an unpopular occupier. ↗

— Marty Meehan

#iraqis #occupier #our #own #percent

I spend a year at the Hoover Institute at Stanford, researching market approaches to air pollution control. ↗

— Gale Norton

#air pollution #approaches #control #hoover #i

If the critics are right that I've made all my decisions based on polls, then I must not be very good at reading them. ↗

— Barack Obama

#critics #decisions #good #i #made

Second, recent polls over there show that the majority of Iraqis want us to leave precipitously. ↗

— William Odom

#leave #majority #over #polls #recent

I found it all very scary. This fairytale gets built around you - as if you've been walking through the streets and then Sydney Pollack sees you and goes, 'I'll put you in something!' ↗

— Julia Ormond

#been #built #fairytale #found #gets

In addition to contributing to erosion, pollution, food poisoning, and the dead zone, corn requires huge amounts of fossil fuel - it takes a half gallon of fossil fuel to produce a bushel of corn. ↗

— Michael Pollan

#bushel #contributing #corn #dead #erosion

The pollution they produce, market, sell, and show to billions around the world is at its core contemptuous of the country that gave them better lives than nearly 100 percent of everybody who's ever lived. And they pass that contempt along for everyone to see. ↗

— John Ratzenberger

#around #better #billions #contempt #contemptuous