How is this even possible..................?

 

....................Roger Daltry turns 82.

Two down.........................

more fun here 

Counterintuitive, but true.................

 The government has little incentive to regulate banks effectively. When there is a breakdown, public officials just end up with more power.

-Arnold Kling, from here

According to......................

 ...........the blogspot counting thing, the 20,000-post threshold has been crossed.   My apologies for all the litter on the Intertunnel floor.  Hopefully some value has been extracted.

Test time.................................

Biggitude...............................

"M100 is appropriately known as a grand design spiral galaxy. It is a large galaxy of over 100 billion stars."

All the information you want (and a larger photo) is here 

If you are interested in the "are there more stars in the sky or grains of sand on the beach" question, you can pursue answers here.