Compare/Contrast

I like math. I like graphs. Here's a graph with some interesting numbers.



There's more info, and more intriguing info, at North Shore Journal. Czech it out.

Speaking of Czechs, I came across a brief little bio on Vaclav Havel (if you don't know the name, read the bio!) this morning. What stood out was a quote about 4/5 of the way down the page, under 2003.

During his farewell address from Prague Castle he urges Czech politicians to always follow their conscience. "It was not to be continually loved by all that we - I in the past and you more recently - were chosen," he says.

"We were elected in the hope that we would do what, according to our knowledge and our convictions, is in the long-term interests of human society as a whole, what is in the interest of the freedom, security, and dignity of all of us, what is in the interest of our life in peace and prosperity."

Note the parts about being chosen, not to be loved; long-term interests; society as a whole; freedom, security, and dignity; etc. Heck that one quote is simply chock full of understanding, wisdom, and creamy political right-ness (not necessarily correctness). My hat is off to Havel.