December 2010
“The United States is off the spectrum of the main tradition in this respect:...”
– from Chomsky on libertarianism and Murray Rothbard (via thenoobyorker)
“Wage slavery,” I like that phrase a lot. A while back, we had a handful of legit conservative Tumblrs on here. Now they’ve been replaced with a bunch of angry “libertarian” trolls. “I’m for civil and personal liberties — except...
Watchjonathan-cunningham:
Newt Gingrich is a direct mail scam artist.
“I’m opposed to giving people money for doing nothing,” Gingrich insisted during a recent speech to GOP activists in South Carolina.
“Let is review for just a second how Newt Gingrich makes his money,” Maddow began. “For starters, he hands out fake awards in exchange for cash.”
“Newt Gingrich makes money right now running a...
“As revealing as the disclosures themselves are, the reactions to them have been...”
– Glenn Greenwald (via azspot)
“Personally I’m in favor of democracy, which means that the central institutions...”
– Noam Chomsky (via illuminatedbeing)
“What I can’t understand is the willingness of the citizenry to protect and...”
– Maxine Udall (girl economist)
“Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not,
and a sense...”
– Oscar Wilde (via fuckyeahexistentialism)
“The American People will take Socialism, but they won’t take the label. I...”
– Upton Sinclair (via jerkoff-called-darwin)
Ricky Gervais Fields Questions on Atheism --... →
siddman:
In response to his WSJ piece from earlier this week about why he’s an atheist, Ricky Gervais took some follow-up questions. His answers include: “Since there is nothing to know about god, a comedian knows as much about god as any one else”; “How can not believing in something that is backed up with no empirical evidence be less scientific than believing in something that not only has no...
clientsfromhell:
Client: “I want something breakthrough, something no one’s ever seen before. But proven.”
Me: “So you want proven breakthrough?”
Client: “Exactly.”
“The FCC decision was described as a “compromise” between public and corporate...”
– Black Agenda Report (via azspot)
“They’ve got their little categories, like ‘conscious’ and ‘gangsta’. It used to...”
– Mos Def on being called a “conscious rapper” (stolen from wiki)
“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long...”
– Carl Sagan (via shorterexcerpts)
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Sheryl Sandberg: Why we have too few women leaders:
Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg looks at why a smaller percentage of women than men reach the top of their professions — and offers 3 powerful pieces of advice to women aiming for the C-suite.
“When pre-prescribed duties are not being performed, a variety of conformist,...”
– Mental Anarchy (via sgandhi)
