November 2010
20 posts
“Are you breathing just a little and calling it life?”
– Mary Oliver
“How agonized we are about how people die. How untroubled we are about how they...”
– P. Sainath
June 2010
1 post
May 2010
6 posts
Bad Medieval Movies--Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves... →
“It makes perfect sense. You’re on the run from the law for stealing the king’s deer, so you build an elaborate tree fort.”
Bad Medieval Movies--Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves... →
“Rickman is so delightfully evil. He throws hissy fits, he exploits women, he consults the Dark Arts! He has a PERM IN THE MIDDLE AGES!”
I die.
April 2010
4 posts
“There are two novels that can transform a bookish fourteen year old’s...”
– Raj Patel, The Value of Nothing: How to Reshape Market Society and Redefine Democracy
“What, after all, does money offer in a market society if not the ability to buy...”
– Raj Patel, The Value of Nothing: How To Reshape Market Society and Redefine Democracy
“Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the...”
– John Maynard Keynes
March 2010
9 posts
Frank Rich: The Rage Is Not About Health Care →
“How curious that a mob fond of likening President Obama to Hitler knows so little about history that it doesn’t recognize its own small-scale mimicry of Kristallnacht.”
The Obama Seder →
I want to gooooo…
“Some women choose to follow men, and some women choose to follow their dreams....”
– Lady Gaga (via sheema)
February 2010
53 posts
“Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where your backbone ought to be.”
– Clementine Paddleford (via lastchatwithphontaine) (via thehermitage)
The Case Against Corporate Speech →
“Corporations are not humans. They do not vote. They should not be accorded a constitutional right to influence elections or public policies, especially given their enormous embedded privileges and immunities compared to real people.” Ralph Nader and Robert Weissman
Justice Department Report Finds John Yoo and Jay... →
“Some of the brutal interrogation methods that Mr. Yoo and Mr. Bybee approved for use on Qaeda prisoners, including wall-slamming and the near-drowning of waterboarding, had never before been authorized in American history, and the United States had condemned such treatment as torture and abuse when used by other countries.
Over less than a year starting in August 2002, according to...
Ugh. →
Crazy people who just hate taxes/freedom/Jesus/Western decadence/cupcakes, take note! If you fly your plane into a federal building, you are not a terrorist. You are a protester, according to the Wall Street Journal. And if you happen to be a brown person, I’m sure they will extend the same courtesy to you that they’ve extended to Super Douchebag Stack.
“Never has a nation so dedicated itself to the proposition that not only should...”
– Charles P. Pierce, Idiot America: How Stupidity Became A Virtue In The Land Of The Free
Tea Party Movement Lights Fuse For Rebellion On... →
In New Mexico, Mary Johnson, recording secretary of the Las Cruces Tea Party steering committee, described why she fears the government. She pointed out how much easier it is since Sept. 11 for the government to tap telephones and scour e-mail, bank accounts and library records. “Twenty years ago that would have been a paranoid statement,” Ms. Johnson said. “It’s not anymore.”
I would bet any...