January 2012
11 posts
“I think everyone is kind of freaked out right now. Which is why they set up...”
– Cat Valente
“…it’s called the American dream because you have to be asleep to believe...”
– George Carlin
“So often in America, we have socialism for the rich, and rugged, free enterprise...”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
“I would be the first to say that I am still committed to militant, powerful,...”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Many white Americans of good will have never connected bigotry with economic...”
– Martin Luther King, Jr. (via journolist)
“When you have a circumstance where they [Romney’s Bain Capital] made a lot...”
– Newt Gingrich
“People draw a distinction between investors who want a company to succeed...”
– Newt Gingrich
I can’t believe I’m agreeing with this guy, but, seriously, what Mitt Romney is defending is kleptocracy, and not the free market.
“…because anybody who has so little is afraid to lose what he just barely...”
– Oscar Zeta Acosta
“Let us not forget that this great nation was founded by a bunch of men wearing...”
– RuPaul
December 2011
28 posts
“Carl Sagan (among others) thought that the answer is to be found, tragically, in...”
– Charles Krauthammer, on the search for intelligent life and intelligent politics. (via washingtonpoststyle)
“…there appears to be no upper case Evil in the world of Nothing Special except...”
– Lucius Shepard, reviewing “Super 8”
“What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.”
– Christopher Hitchens
“Aristocrats came in several different varieties, but it was a belief shared by...”
– from “Quartet and Triptych” by Matthew Hughes
“Apply that finely tutored mind of yours to all those bullshit...”
– Dakovash the Salt Lord, a fucking demon god, from The Cold Commands by Richard K. Morgan
“We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few,...”
– Louis D. Brandeis
“We can never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was...”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
“…all change is resisted, good things don’t happen without years of...”
– Keith Humphreys
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/ten-miles-square/2011/12/africanamerican_liberals_know033985.php#
This is what you’ll find when you wake from the American Dream: without privilege, hard work only gets you so far.
“Instead of replacing high-fat foods with naturally low-fat foods with other benefits, such as fruits, vegetables, legumes, and whole grain foods, consumers have often increased their consumption of low-fat or “fat-free” varieties of naturally high-fat foods, such as fat-free snack foods [1] The result is an increase in refined carbohydrates, lower HDL-cholesterol concentrations...
“If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you...”
– Martin Luther King, Jr. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1136695 (via http://friendfeed.com/1indienation/1584b5c3/rt-iamdiddy-if-you-cant-fly-then-run-walk-crawl )
“Faulkner famously wrote of Pickett’s Charge:
For every Southern boy fourteen...”
– Ta-Nehisi Coates
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/02/why-do-so-few-blacks-study-the-civil-war/8831/
“But the fact that such carnage had been wreaked for a cause that Ulysses S....”
– Ta-Nehisi Coates
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/02/why-do-so-few-blacks-study-the-civil-war/8831/
“The belief that the Civil War wasn’t for us was the result of the country’s long...”
– Ta-Nehisi Coates
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/02/why-do-so-few-blacks-study-the-civil-war/8831/
“Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of...”
– Abraham Lincoln
http://books.google.com/books?id=oGJJAAAAMAAJ&dq=labor%20is%20prior%20to%20and%20independent%20of%20capital&pg=PA80#v=onepage&q=labor%20is%20prior%20to%20and%20independent%20of%20capital&f=false
“Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us...”
– from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain
November 2011
19 posts
“One of the real changes that comes when you start running for president—as...”
– Newt Gingrich http://www.newser.com/story/134426/gingrich-takes-shot-at-fox-news.html
“Only one thing in the world can resist an evil-hearted man. And that is another...”
– Ged the Archmage from The Farthest Shore by Ursula K. Le Guin
“She wept in pain, because she was free. What she had begun to learn was the...”
– from The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. Le Guin
“The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and...”
– Ursula K. Le Guin, from “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas”
“…the truth is that as a man’s real power grows and his knowledge widens,...”
– The Master Summoner from A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
“Go to bed; tired is stupid.”
– Kurremkarmerruk the Master Namer from A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
“Have you never thought how danger must surround power as shadow does light?”
– Ogion the Silent, from A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
“You can’t change anything from outside it. Standing apart, looking down, taking...”
– from Four Ways to Forgiveness by Ursula K. LeGuin (via thechocolatebrigade)
“….Tell me, what is known? What is sure, predictable, inevitable, the one...”
– from The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
“Under heaven nothing is more soft and yielding than water.
Yet for attacking...”
– Tao Te Ching, Chapter 78, translation by Gia-fu Feng and Jane English
