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
