March 2011
“Peace loving Americans are few and far between. The vast majority of our...”
– Margaret Kimberley (via azspot)
1 tag
“I have filled 3 Mead notebooks trying to figure out whether it was Them or Just...”
– David Foster Wallace (via eudaimonist)
How to Be Happy: The ethics of David Foster... →
“Other scholars have pointed out that ignoring this hidden history of failures...”
– The Anti-Predictor: A Chat with Mathematical Sociologist Duncan Watts: Scientific American
“Predictability is elusive because randomness holds much more sway than most of...”
– The Anti-Predictor: A Chat with Mathematical Sociologist Duncan Watts: Scientific American
“I was thoroughly depressed, and angry, after reading the amazing “Kill Team”...”
– Monday Mailbag: Financial Reform? How About Criminal Prosecutions? Plus: Bonus Ozzy Osbourne | Rolling Stone Politics | Taibblog | Matt Taibbi on Politics and the Economy
“There are probably only about 10 guys in America who are cheerfully unconcerned...”
– Arizona campaign speech case: The Supreme Court’s fights on behalf of rich guys. - By Dahlia Lithwick - Slate Magazine
“Media Matters had always packaged itself differently than the right’s...”
– Andrew Breitbart vs. Huffington Post: Why conservatives and liberals are ratcheting up their monitoring of the media. - By David Weigel - Slate Magazine
2/3rds of US Corporations Pay Zero Federal Taxes:... →
“I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed...”
– Jim Carrey (via fernandofrench)
“The aim of the corporate state is not to feed, clothe or house the masses, but...”
– Chris Hedges (via azspot)
“As anyone who writes about politics can tell you, having vitriol and slander...”
– Billionaire self-pity and the Koch brothers - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com
“In 2007, the Supreme Court, with a 5-4 vote, upheld the Partial Birth Abortion...”
– What’s really driving the GOP’s abortion war - War Room - Salon.com
“Since the financial crisis of 2008, one of the most revealing spectacles has...”
– Billionaire self-pity and the Koch brothers - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com
“When Republicans profited from the miserable economy to sweep up huge wins in...”
– What’s really driving the GOP’s abortion war | Amanda Marcotte, Salon (via pantslessprogressive)
“There is plenty of economic activity in the U.S., and plenty of wealth. But like...”
– Losing Our Way - NYTimes.com
“The U.S. has not just misplaced its priorities. When the most powerful country...”
– Losing Our Way (Seriously - read the whole thing.)
1 tag
“Now, like all great theologies, Bill (O’Reilly)’s can be boiled down to one...”
– (via aatombomb)
“I’ll stop calling them teabaggers when they stop calling it Obamacare.”
– Bill Maher (via ibad)
vruz: I’ll stop calling them teabaggers when they stop being Kochsuckers
(via vruz)
“I’m just sick of ego, ego, ego. My own and everybody else’s. I’m sick of...”
– Franny and Zooey (via ephemerals)
1 tag
“Only American audiences ask me, “What should I do?” I’m never asked this in...”
– - Noam Chomsky, Imperial Ambitions, p. 39-40 (via sgandhi)
1 tag
“Not to steal Bill Maher’s schtick, but new rule: if you’re not willing to...”
– Ezra Klein (via thepoliticalpartygirl)
BBC News - Religion may become extinct in nine... →
“Marijuana was the main thing that promoted non-violence amongst the youth,...”
– John Lennon (via wine-loving-vagabond)
“Andábamos sin buscarnos, pero sabiendo que andábamos para encontrarnos.”
– Julio Cortázar, Rayuela. (via nihil-as-in-nihilism)
“The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.”
– Albert Camus. The Plague. (via Slaughterhouse 90210)
(via anotherword)
“The shower is our mind’s Last Stand.”
– The Death of Idle Time - Technology fills our hours. Reflection be damned! - Obit Magazine (via Instapaper)
“As for Obama, I just disagree that he did all he could, in health care or...”
– Mailbag: Matt Taibbi on Politics and the Economy
The story goes that when Winston Churchill was...
“Two weeks ago, the scientific journal PLoS Medicine published a study that...”
– Lessons From Low-Income India
My Monster, My Self: On Nicholas Carr and William... →
This is a really interesting read on the pessimistic side of the impacts of technology and the internet on our selves. It’s worth reflecting on, though, if the authors reviewed are right, few of us actually will.
“Senate Republicans have vowed to block her appointment if President Obama...”
– Elizabeth Warren, the Republicans’ Punching Bag - NYTimes.com
“I still don’t know why the Obama administration was so quick to accept defeat in...”
– The Forgotten Millions - NYTimes.com
“I understand Chua’s disdain for the ‘build self-esteem at the cost...”
– The People vs. ‘Tiger Mom’ Amy Chua | Rolling Stone Politics | Taibblog | Matt Taibbi on Politics and the Economy
“When Larry Summers once said that he thought that “countries in Africa are...”
– The People vs. ‘Tiger Mom’ Amy Chua | Rolling Stone Politics | Taibblog | Matt Taibbi on Politics and the Economy