December 2009
November 2009
“You did WHAT? You invited the Cheneys? Oh, Jesus. I didn’t mean … I hate that guy. I mean, I guess they won’t come, because they spend Thanksgiving on their ranch in Wyoming, stamping on the heads of baby turkeys and drinking crude oil, but… jeez. Just don’t ever do that again, OK? Dad”
—all the president’s emails — guardian.uk
“How many scholarly stakes in the heart will we need before Martin Heidegger (1889-1976), still regarded by some as Germany’s greatest 20th-century philosopher, reaches his final resting place as a prolific, provincial Nazi hack?”
—i didn’t know he was ailing.
“In other words, it’s possible that addiction to painkillers is not only NOT a moral failing of the patient, but is unavoidable. Until recently, we just haven’t understood what we were dealing with, and, in typical Western puritanical tradition, we’ve blamed the victim and hobbled the healers.”
—nance
“Heroin Addicts Pressure President To Stay Course In Afghanistan”
—you know.
“I resent my name being slung thru the mud.”
—tiger wood’s alleged g.f.
“Carly Fiorina: She Wants to Reboot California”
—oh my god, with a pc? god no.
“It is unlikely that we will soon have another president with the moral and rhetorical force to talk us out of a foolish commitment that cannot be sustained without shame and defeat. If it costs him his presidency, what other achievement can match it?”
—garry wills
“As a twist, to explain why gravity is so weak (given our size relative to the Earth, it is far easier than it should be to dunk a basketball or shoot a rocket into space) some theorists consider it to be a force leaking into our universe from somewhere else, where it is much stronger.”
—we live in a flawed place
“The foggy mystery of Palin’s popularity burns off sometimes; sometimes I am able to see in bright light why she is beloved. She is beloved because she willing to tell Americans that just because they are ignorant does not mean they are wrong.”
—the awl
“You look at her and wonder ‘Where did they find her, Project Running Mate?’”
—robin williams riff, perfection
“If the Food Network did a show called Here’s How Not To Cheese-Grate Half Your Thumb Off You Massive Tard I would totally watch.”
—dean cameron allen
“Economics as currently practised may have only a slight grip on market behaviour, but it seems to be powerfully predictive of the behaviour of economists.”
—lrb - john grey
“The tribes that existed on this continent before the arrival of Europeans should not be called with a title like “Native American”; as it begs to question why someone here would name their group, or the land they lived on, after someone from Florence.”
—suburbanempire.com
“I see the ugly,” Luther told Truthout. “I see soldiers beating their wives and trying to kill themselves all the time, and most folks don’t want to look at this, including the military.”
—t r u t h o u t | iraq war vets
“The trouble is that while many of their grievances are well founded, their affection is certainly misplaced. None of their problems can be remedied by the politics championed by Palin. Indeed, the greater the traction her politics gets, the worse things will be for her base. The America whose passing they mourn was lost precisely because of the freemarket, low-tax, warmongering agenda she advocates.”
—guardian uk
