June 2010
“If you are ever arrested, make sure to ask for a jury. As for two juries. If...”
– ditto
“The psychiatrist did everything exactly the way every other psychiatrist does...”
– the last psychiatrist
“Plug the damn hole”
– obama sez
May 2010
“There are times in an evildoer’s life when one has to stand back and...”
– borowitz, of course
“What if, Heidegger asked, another more primal way of knowing, one that accords...”
– stephen metcalf in slate
“A culture that is obsessed with happiness must really be in despair,...”
– adam phillips
“The Macalope doesn’t have a point here, but to those who were Mac users during...”
– totally!
“Each time you think the GOP has finally perfected its stupidity, that it has...”
– bitch ph.d., speaking, of course, of rand paul
“Entire media companies no longer exist and others are disappearing like so many...”
– sylvia paull, who knows whereof she speaks
“Facebook’s history mirrors that of other imperialist states—frequent...”
– farhad manjoo
“Of course, everybody has his bete noire, his black pet, in the series. Mine is...”
– Nabokov on poshlost
“It’s not even a question of whether the universe is meaningful or...”
– independent.uk
“Winston Churchill famously observed that, “You can always trust the Americans....”
– nyt
“And the dreadful, soul-crushing condition of rest stops along I-95 (especially...”
– humbling
“If Jesus says something nice, then someone is probably saying it for him; if he...”
– adam gopnik searching for jesus
“The Oprah Winfrey Show repurposes everything—up to and including the...”
– ditto, and so cool.
“… a woman whose personality toes that uniquely American line where pluck...”
– slate sez. great line.
“Much of this is mere chatter, which fuels the lifestyle magazines, is dictated...”
– also greer
“For the past hundred years women have been gearing up for revolution, but it...”
– germaine greer
“For the first time we shall be the majority living with a minority,” Knesset...”
– fail.
“But it is Playboy’s vanguard role inpromoting sexual license as the ethical...”
– how dreadful
“… time pauses. Everything stops. That stillness is inviolable, it is at...”
– the last psychiatrist goes quantum
“Does that law in Arizona really do anything to fix immigration or is it just a...”
– also helen
“How many wars do we have to start before we realize that, in war, there are no...”
– one of helen philpot’s sensible questions
“Yet surely it’s important to know why all the executives lived, even...”
– yeah, right.
“But never say never, of course, because it tells the Devil exactly what to lay...”
– joe bageant
“Even now, Barack Obama - who took more BP cash than McCain - pledges his support...”
– who the hell was that man i voted for?
“Zuckerberg, you see, just hates to break his word …”
– gawker
“Reality becomes a series of successive obliterations of potential realities....”
– the copenhagen interpretation
“But then, some folks think Social Media is a real job.”
– « raving lunacy – oxymorons for the 21st century
“Another worker familiar with the rig told the lawyers that the company had...”
– capitalism at its finest
“Why does Apple think it can distract us all with shiny objects, other than...”
– gawker
“As of some day really soon, Gawker Media Web sites will not be supported in...”
– secret diary of steve jobs
“A leering old villain in a frock.”
– richard dawkins
“Any three-year-old can see how unsatisfactory and clumsy is this whole business...”
– annie dillard
“… his most significant legacy is that, also like Murrow, he treated his...”
– bill moyers retires 