“The more I use Google Books, the more I come to realize that Google is just as negligent, smug, and uncaring as any company that existed before it. There’s nothing different about it being an Internet business at all. Evil rules there too.”
—what else is new « mike cane’s xblog
December 2010
“Actually, lives are at stake as a result of silence and lies, which a lot of these leaks reveal.”
—daniel ellsberg
“
‘Sarah Palin’s Alaska’ Ratings Plummet”
In fact, the median age of the show is 57—15 years older than TLC’s average.
” —what the hell did the geniuses at tlc think, fcs?November 2010
“Ever wonder how all those promises from Obama before the election have pretty much disappeared? Why his moral judgment on Afghanistan, torture, prisoner abuse etc. seems to have taken a sharp right turn? Well look no more – the guy practically has his Blackberry surgically implanted to his right ear.”
—doug alder
“I stand in good relation to the earth
I stand in good relation to the gods
I stand in good relation to all that is beautiful
I stand in good relation to the daughter of Tsen-tainte
You see, I am alive, I am alive” —via rude pundit. thank you.
I stand in good relation to the gods
I stand in good relation to all that is beautiful
I stand in good relation to the daughter of Tsen-tainte
You see, I am alive, I am alive” —via rude pundit. thank you.
“These memories, which are my life — for we possess nothing certainly except the past — were always with me,” he begins. “Like the pigeons of St. Mark’s, they were everywhere, under my feet, singly, in pairs, in little honey-voiced congregations, nodding, strutting, winking, rolling the tender feathers of their necks, perching sometimes, if I stood still, on my shoulder or pecking a broken biscuit from between my lips; until, suddenly, the noon gun boomed and in a moment, with a flutter and sweep of wings, the pavement was bare and the whole sky above dark with a tumult of fowl.”
—evelyn waugh, quoted in nyt.
“… Cher, trying her darnedest to play older and wiser but without, you know, the wrinkles and gray.”
—but of course.
“The book “Finishing the Hat” becomes a metaphor for that feeling of joy, the little squirt of dopamine hitting the brain when the artist creates a work of art. It’s a feeling so addictive the artist is willing to forgo love in order to experience artistic bliss.”
—in which we see that paul simon is not a writer
“… he discovered in France “the sense that we have come to the era of post-art, in a world where art is dying because the need for art, the sensitivity and the love for it, is dying.”
—kundera, though he is not without hope
“When asked how long he thought copyrights should last, Jack Valenti, the lobbyist for Hollywood, quipped, “Forever, minus a day.” Valenti has won, Jefferson has lost.”
—review of comman as air, by lewis hyde
“… James’s proliferating clauses sometimes exist only to subordinate themselves into an ecstasy of avoidance …”
—marvellous way of saying it. we read and adore anyway.
“The disputed area also gives North Korea an easy excuse for provocation to create havoc and so get the international community’s attention.”
—bloomberg. and, puke.
“On Sarah Palin’s Alaska, the titular hero relished telling the camera that she’d had her “first baby shower on this shooting range,” and that “I love to share that story, ’cause it gets the liberals all wee-wee’d up.” Priceless. No humbling vista of nature captured by the show’s cameras is sufficient to stanch the flow of Palin’s grudgery.”
—ken tucker, ew.com
“Ex-House Leader DeLay Found Guilty in Texas Case”
—yes virginia there is a santa claus!
“If this were to happen—if pro-lifers were to embrace contraception and give it moral sanction—it would prevent more abortions than any anti-abortion law would.”
—what pro-lifers can learn from the princeton abortion conference
“As the great Marshall McLuhan once said, “know thyself, mofos, know thy mother fucking self.”
—the last psychiatrist
