August 2012
22 posts
“For behavioral economists, however, freedom has a cost, which is borne by...”
– Daniel Kahneman Thinking, Fast and Slow
(via Austin Frakt http://theincidentaleconomist.com/wordpress/two-good-books/ )
“We’re not generating enough angry white guys to stay in business for the...”
– Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC)
“First, they can never really seem to grasp the concept of ‘consent.’...”
– Duncan Black (@atrios) “Conservatives and Rape”
http://www.eschatonblog.com/2012/08/conservatives-and-rape.html
“You start out in 1954 by saying, ‘Nigger, nigger, nigger.’ By 1968...”
– Lee Atwater, discussing the Southern Strategy, and essentially laying bare Birtherism and Romney’s lies about welfare reform
“Revolution, counter-revolution, non-revolution. Revolutionaries are massacred by...”
– Lu Xun, translated by Simon Leys
(via Gord Sellar http://www.gordsellar.com/2012/06/28/the-bernoulli-war/ )
“No one can earn a million dollars honestly.”
– William Jennings Bryan
“I say to the grownups, if you want to deny evolution, and live in your—in your...”
– Scientist Bill Nye (the Science Guy) on not teaching your children to deny evolution for the good of America.
In summary, creationists are hurting future America. Bill Nye thinks you should stop that.
(via cognitivedissonance)
“They just need to stop that shit, ok, get over it.”
– ex-Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele to the Republicans complaining about the selection of the Tampa site for the Republican National Convention
http://www.politico.com/blogs/burns-haberman/2012/08/steele-to-critics-get-over-it-133212.html
“Even though we were farther away from earth than two humans had ever been, we...”
– Buzz Aldrin, on the death of Neil Armstrong
“It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put...”
– Neil Armstrong
“No one refers to San Francisco by that title [“Frisco”] except...”
– Judge Mogan
http://www.sfgenealogy.com/sf/history/hgoe82.htm
“Whoever after due and proper warning shall be heard to utter the abominable word...”
– Emperor Norton I
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_English#Northern_California
“What is necessary, after all, is only this: solitude, vast inner solitude. To...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke from Letters to a Young Poet (via earlyfrost)
Perhaps this is easier for introverts? I consider this a necessity. (via ayse)
“Don’t mistake me, I clearly see that [Paul] Ryan has a whole lotta “rage” in...”
– Tom Morello of Rage Against The Machine
(via faboomama http://faboomama.tumblr.com/post/29623076494/tom-morello-takes-paul-ryan-to-school-for-claiming-rage )
from...
“Remember, Romney spent months castigating President Obama because he “apologizes...”
– Paul Krugman
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/10/culture-of-fraud/
“…the difference between ignorant and educated people is that the latter...”
– from The Diamond Age: Or, A Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer, by Neal Stephenson. (via Magnificent Octopus http://magnificentoctopus.blogspot.com/2012/08/the-difference-between-stupid-and.html )
“Xenophobic violence doesn’t mesh well with informed, realistic distinctions...”
– In Violence Against Sikhs, Racists Don’t Discriminate — Daily Intel – Nitsuh Abebe
(via mehan)
“I was gonna post something that would tell you the difference between Hindus and...”
– Eric Parsons
(via Vijay)
“Harry Reid is the honey badger; he doesn’t give a shit. He has the advantages of...”
– http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2012/08/03/harrys-game/
“The original headline and story incorrectly quoted Boehner as saying “for...”
– “Boehner: President Obama ‘has never had a real job, for God’s sake’”
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/boehner-president-obama-never-had-real-job-christ-190548921.html
“If you speak in an angry way about what has happened to our people and what is...”
– Malcolm X, the ultimate truth teller (via ancestryinprogress)
abuse culture 101
(via bad-dominicana) 