January 2012
3 posts
“No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.”
– Carl Jung
“Religions are often the state-protected nurseries of pseudoscience.”
– Carl Sagan
December 2011
8 posts
Robert Reich: My Political Prediction for 2012:... →
robertreich:
My political prediction for 2012 (based on absolutely no inside information): Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden swap places. Biden becomes Secretary of State — a position he’s apparently coveted for years. And Hillary Clinton, Vice President.
So the Democratic ticket for 2012 is Obama-Clinton.
Why…
November 2011
17 posts
Gimme Culture: Open Letter to UC Davis Chancellor... →
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rumagin:
18 November 2011
Linda P.B. Katehi,
I am a junior faculty member at UC Davis. I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of English, and I teach in the Program in Critical Theory and in Science & Technology Studies. I have a strong record of research, teaching, and service. I am currently a Board Member of the Davis Faculty Association. I have also taken an active role...
Romy Schneider is enticingly beautiful
“Love is a temporary madness, it erupts like volcanoes and then subsides. And...”
– Louis de Berniéres Captain Corelli’s Mandolin (via quote-book)
October 2011
35 posts
“If the U.S. lost the war, we would be prosecuted as war criminals.”
– Gen. Curtis LeMay, who directed the bombing campaign against Japan during WW2
“A man can’t know where he is on the Earth except in relation to the moon or a...”
– Paul Auster, American author known for works blending absurdism, existentialism, crime fiction and the search for identity and personal meaning, Effing in Moon Palace, Viking Press, 1989 (Thank you, amiquote)
“Today, we must look to the city of Las Vegas, Nevada, as a metaphor of our...”
– Neil Postman
The Rise of the Regressive Right and the... →
A fundamental war has been waged in this nation since its founding, between progressive forces pushing us forward and regressive forces pulling us backward.
We are going to battle once again.
Progressives believe in openness, equal opportunity, and tolerance. Progressives assume we’re all in it together: We all benefit from public investments in schools and health care and infrastructure....
“A person of good intelligence and of sensitivity cannot exist in this society...”
– George Carlin
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Fox "News": Do 'Occupy Wall Street' Protests... →
labyrintho:
Btw, we took the lead! So awesome. I’ve been watching it unfold over the past three hours! (From 33% saying “Yes” to, currently, 50.9%!) lol Awesome!
Oh, and this doesn’t mean we shouldn’t completely blow the other options away! ;D
hahaha, and I’m sure they’ll now make better use of their disclaimer, “This is a non-scientific viewer question.” (Not that I expect much of anything...
“Opium and morphine are certainly dangerous, habit-forming drugs. But once the...”
– Ludwig von Mises, Every Crime Needs a Victim
“Anxiety is not fear, exactly, because fear is focused on something right in...”
– Understanding the Anxious Mind - NY Times (via scissortits)
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