February 2011
20 posts
“And the new word to have is revolution”
– Gil Scott Heron “Comment #1”
January 2011
72 posts
“You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for...”
– Noam Chomsky, via silas216←fuckyeahnoamchomsky←donghyunsuh
“What I cannot create, I do not understand.”
– Richard Feynman
“Yet it is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is...”
– Gandalf the White
“Do not take revenge, my dear friends, but leave room for God’s wrath, for it is...”
– Romans 12:19
“To oppose something is to maintain it.”
– from The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
“You have confused the true and the real”
– from Dhalgren by Samuel Delany
“I know that astrology isn’t a science… Of course it isn’t....”
– from Mostly Harmless by Douglas Adams
“I mean, this is a situation where — I mean, people don’t —...”
– Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ), March 25th, 2010
“Most educators and professionals do not consider it appropriate to use tertiary...”
– Wikipedia
“This is America, where a white Catholic male Republican judge was murdered on...”
– Mark Shields
“But there, my friends, songs like trees bear fruit only in their own time and...”
– Treebeard
“Of course, it is likely enough, my friends, likely enough that we are going to...”
– Treebeard
“‘You lie,’ said Wormtongue.
‘That word comes too oft and...”
“He could have been helped; I don’t know how, I just know yes. Maybe he...”
– The Last Psychiatrist
“Always remember that science is an evolving, changing field. One study or one...”
– Toni Brayer, M.D.
“Which is not to suggest that resistance is futile. It sounded pretty dark what I...”
– Jon Stewart
“We are not, though, a nation of the goodhearted people Obama presented us as. We...”
– The Rude Pundit
“Of course, he was immediately attacked for politicizing the event (even though...”
– The Rude Pundit
“Suicide is the ninth leading cause of death among Asian Americans across all age...”
– Asian Am J Psychol. 2010 Mar;1(1):18-30. Lifetime Suicidal Ideation and Suicide Attempts in Asian Americans. Cheng JK, Fancher TL, Ratanasen M, Conner KR, Duberstein PR, Sue S, Takeuchi D.
“Look, I totally get how sometimes a parent will threaten their kid with piranhas...”
– The Last Psychiatrist
“And if, as has been discussed in recent days, their deaths help usher in more...”
– President Obama, January 12th, 2011, Tucson, Arizona
“You see, when a tragedy like this strikes, it is part of our nature to demand...”
– President Obama, January 12th, 2011, Tucson, Arizona
“Shame on all of you for not fact-checking, unless it is true that we...”
– Xeni Jardin
“ Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon...”
– William Butler Yeats
“How can one celebrate America’s greatness unless one is allowed to shoot the...”
– The Rude Pundit
“You can make vast fortunes riling up mobs. And because it’s a fiercely...”
– Matt Taibbi (via azspot)
Long live the free market
“How would you characterize the present political climate? Do you believe it’s...”
– Interview: Gary Shteyngart | Full-Stop.net (via ronmarks)
“Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.”
– Grey’s Corollary
“Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.”
– Hanlon’s Razor
“There are some things that it is better to begin than to refuse, even though the...”
– Aragorn
“None may now live as they have lived, and few shall keep what they call their...”
– Aragorn
“Even if you are in a B-Movie gun fight with a horde of motorcycle-riding...”
– David Brin
“Liberals aren’t pushing for gun control. Given the hot rhetoric of...”
– David Brin
“In an era when all scientists are painted (by one side) as conspiring traitors...”
– David Brin In this one instance, I would argue that left and right are equivalent. There are plenty of leftists who are rabidly anti-vaccinationists.
I’ve only now come to realize that it’s futile to try and convince a right-winger that there’s a false equivalence between left and right with regards to vitriolic rhetoric, and I rue my stupidity. I mean, some of them are the same people who vehemently believe that global warming is a hoax, that poor people-of-color and illegal immigrants were primarily responsible for our most...
“First, drawing false equivalence is not only “taking sides,” it’s taking the...”
– Media Matters, “The Dangers Of False Equivalence” (via ryking)
“Everybody is talking about gun control…. No, I think we need some bullet...”
– Chris Rock
I was reminded of this by NPR’s interview of Representative Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY), who is drafting a bill to ban high-capacity magazines
“If this… is the best you can come up with, put down your gun and seek...”
– Angry Black Woman, on Balloon Juice
“The thing is, they know they bear responsibility. That’s why they are running...”
– from Angry Black Lady on Balloon Juice
“All that is very well, but let us cultivate our garden.”
– Candide, from Candide by Voltaire
“Let us work without disputing; it is the only way to render life tolerable.”
– Martin, from Candide by Voltaire
“I do think it’s a worthwhile goal not to conflate our political opponents with...”
– Jon Stewart (via ayşe. and kateoplis)
“Whether alleged gunman Jared Lee Loughner, 22, had been diagnosed or treated for...”
– From the Treatment Advocacy Center (via ryking)
“Whether alleged gunman Jared Lee Loughner, 22, had been diagnosed or treated for...”
– From the Treatment Advocacy Center (via ryking)
“We have a unique vantage point here aboard the International Space Station. As I...”
– Commander Scott Kelly, brother-in-law of U.S. Representative Gabrielle Gifford, from Military: Ariz. shooting suspect failed drug test by Jacques Billeaud, Associated Press (via vicster)
“They are inclined to say that any two stories that are built round the same...”
– J. R. R. Tolkien, “On Fairy-Stories”
“And it’s the saturation of our political discourse — and especially our airwaves...”
– Paul Krugman, Climate of Hate
(via vruz)
“When you heard the terrible news from Arizona, were you completely surprised? Or...”
– PAUL KRUGMAN, writing on the “Climate of Hate” in the U.S., in today’s New York Times. (via inothernews)