February 2012
7 posts
“But that is faith externalized for public consumption, faith that runs the risk...”
– http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/02/07/2629827/tim-tebows-prayers-on-field-the.html#storylink=cpy
Feb 8th
“From everyone to whom much has been given, much will be required; and from the...”
– Luke 12:48 (NRSV)
Feb 3rd
“Start delving into actual historical usage and you’ll discover that lots of the...”
– Kory Stamper http://korystamper.wordpress.com/2012/02/02/facts-and-truth-irregardless/
Feb 2nd
“If I begin tapping at one of the blocks, what happens to that carefully...”
– Kory Stamper http://korystamper.wordpress.com/2012/02/02/facts-and-truth-irregardless/
Feb 2nd
“How can you possibly have a dialogue about usage, substandard terms, the...”
– Kory Stamper http://korystamper.wordpress.com/2012/02/02/facts-and-truth-irregardless/
Feb 2nd
“Aliqua non possunt quin merdam moveare. (Some people just can’t help but...”
– (via http://korystamper.wordpress.com/2012/02/02/facts-and-truth-irregardless/ )
Feb 2nd
“Romney suffers from the same problem afflicting the likes of Lloyd Blankfein and...”
– Matt Taibbi http://m.rollingstone.com/entry/view/id/21732/pn/3/p/0/?KSID=7632384c2b2d675c7d0c10a813c19250
Feb 1st
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“When I lis­ten to dis­cus­sions about the Sin­gu­lar­i­ty, when I read sto­ries...”
– Cat Valente http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2012/01/a-far-green-country.html
Feb 1st
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January 2012
16 posts
“At least my harshest critics can agree I have a promising future — as a Al Green...”
– President Barack Obama
Jan 30th
“I cannot give you a simple answer but I do know this, there is no record in the...”
– Carl Sagan
Jan 30th
“Fere libenter homines id quod volunt credunt. (Men willingly believe what they...”
– Julius Caesar
Jan 28th
“Right now, if you buy a computer system and you want to solve one of your...”
– Steve Jobs (via http://speirs.org/blog/2012/1/27/something-very-special-and-very-historically-different.html )
Jan 28th
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“I think every­one is kind of freaked out right now. Which is why they set up...”
– Cat Valente
Jan 26th
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Jan 25th
“…it’s called the American dream because you have to be asleep to believe...”
– George Carlin
Jan 20th
“So often in America, we have socialism for the rich, and rugged, free enterprise...”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
Jan 17th
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“I would be the first to say that I am still committed to militant, powerful,...”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
Jan 17th
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“‎Many white Americans of good will have never connected bigotry with economic...”
– Martin Luther King, Jr. (via journolist)
Jan 17th
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“When you have a circumstance where they [Romney’s Bain Capital] made a lot...”
– Newt Gingrich
Jan 12th
“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.
Jan 11th
“…because anybody who has so little is afraid to lose what he just barely...”
– Oscar Zeta Acosta
Jan 10th
“Let us not forget that this great nation was founded by a bunch of men wearing...”
– RuPaul
Jan 7th
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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)
Dec 30th
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“…there appears to be no upper case Evil in the world of Nothing Special except...”
– Lucius Shepard, reviewing “Super 8”
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“What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.”
– Christopher Hitchens
Dec 22nd
“Aristocrats came in several different varieties, but it was a belief shared by...”
– from “Quartet and Triptych” by Matthew Hughes
Dec 22nd
“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
Dec 21st
“We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few,...”
– Louis D. Brandeis
Dec 19th
“We can never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was...”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“…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.
Dec 10th
“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...
Dec 9th
“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 )
Dec 8th
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“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/
Dec 7th
“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/
Dec 6th
“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/
Dec 6th
“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
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“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
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