“Here is a grand old party frozen, suspended, mesmerized, in thrall to a gaggle of showboats and radio entertainers and small mobs of fist-shakers standing staunch for unreality, and no Republican elected official dares say, “Let us not be nuts.”
—garrison keillor
April 2010
“I just don’t want to believe she could have been aware that her spouse was into fucking Hitler memorabilia …”
—jezebel
“On Larry King Live last night, professional overzealous defender of the Catholic Church Bill Donohue explained to Sinead O’Connor that it’s not pedophilia if the victim is 12 or 13.”
—gawker
March 2010
“Everything is being structured in such a way to make us believe that these online conversation are indeed just like having a coffee with friends. This way we keep feeding the data pipeline being maintained by companies like Facebook and Twitter.”
—the inquisitr
“Religion: Nothing More Than Politics in Drag”
—rabbi kula | huff po
“The pope is in too deep.”
—maureen dowd
“The Republicans haven’t had a single African-American in the Senate or the House since 2003 and have had only three in total since 1935. Their anxieties about a rapidly changing America are well-grounded.”
—frank rich
“… the current edition of the Republican party has achieved something really memorable in the annals of collective bad intentions: they have managed to create a sense of the public interest whose main goal is the destruction of the public interest.”
—james howard kunstler
“I only had conversations with men. I made genuine friendships. The Kingdom is brutal to offenders. People were open to differing ideas. The Kingdom represses half its population. German tabloids have naked women on their covers. The Kingdom executes homosexuals. The Kingdom pays its young people to go to college.”
—joho, home from saudi arabia
“… it is entirely possible that Tom Hanks has spent more time making entertainment about World War 2 than we did fighting the ridiculous thing in the first place.”
—trueslant.com
“Most girls get some sort of instruction, but dangerous concepts like pleasure and love are scrupulously avoided; we’re taught to think of ourselves as scary coils of tubing that are hard to keep clean, and which periodically leak.”
—sex
“cf. the Woody Allen joke about Commentary and Dissent merging to form Dysentery”
—well i never heard it
“Vienna Boys’ Choir caught up in sex abuse scandals”
—is nothing sacred.
“… sometimes you can actually see more by going nowhere at all.”
—tomdispatch
“War, of one sort or another, is the solution to most of those things that we are told threaten America — which is to say American capitalism — either directly or indirectly. And according to the long running national storyline, they have always come from outside our borders — Barbary pirates, white slavers, the “Cold War,” against anti-capitalist communism, terrorism, Islam, drugs, job loss to Mexicans and to China, swine flu, bird flu. Never-never-never do they result from our own actions, misjudgments or, heaven help us, our own folly.”
—joe bageant: cantina tolteca
“Bart, if you want to reduce abortions, vote to fully fund family planning and comprehensive sex education. Otherwise, shut the hell up. We don’t care what you think about our wombs.”
— margaret and helen (age 82)
“I believe in the forest, and in the meadow, and in the night in which the corn grows.”
—thoreau, quoted by capepoint
