September 2011
1 post
“Labor is prior to and independent of capital. Capital is only the fruit of...”
– Abraham Lincoln, noted Marxist Socialist Fascist.
August 2011
1 post
“Anyone who characterizes the debt-ceiling deal as a victory for the American...”
– Robert Reich
July 2011
3 posts
“Sit, be still, and listen, because you’re drunk and we’re at the...”
– Rumi
“To start announcing your own preferences for old values when your world is...”
– Marshall McLuhan
“Denigration of the full faith and credit of the United States would have...”
– Ronald Reagan
June 2011
2 posts
“If you had to write a plausible scenario for how America defaults on its debt,...”
– Ezra Klein
“George Jefferson wore bell-bottoms to warn the British.”
– accordingtopalin
April 2011
4 posts
“President Obama, if you look closely at his positions, is a moderate Republican...”
– Ezra Klein
“There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life:...”
– John Rogers
“The House leadership, with the Speaker, have a very clear choice to make. And...”
– Harry Reid
“A plan dedicated almost entirely to slashing social spending in a country...”
– Kevin Drum
March 2011
5 posts
“[T]o point out that [it just happens] that some people are destitute while...”
– Terry Eagleton
“Everything about [theatre] shouldn’t work. It’s ludicrous, stupid....”
– Enda Walsh
“Where free unions and collective bargaining are forbidden, freedom is lost.”
– St. Ronald of Reagan
“… [T]he people who should be leading the charge to identify governmental...”
– Ezra Klein
“A unionized public employee, a member of the Tea Party and a Big Corp CEO are...”
February 2011
1 post
“The situation is thoroughly depressing. Washington seems to have finally gotten...”
– Ryan Avent (in The Economist)
January 2011
2 posts
“A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense...”
– Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Yes, the Constitution is binding. No, it’s not clear which interpretation of the...”
– Ezra Klein
December 2010
4 posts
“Perhaps it will need to be the note of anger in Our Lord’s voice that we hear,...”
– The Rt Rev Nicholas Reade, Bishop of Blackburn
“We are now living in a global state that has been structured for the benefit of...”
– Charlie Stross, Invaders from Mars (Emphasis mine)
“It’s the standard bribery model of legislating that has come to...”
– Christopher Hayes, “Tax Cuts Forever?”
“The most prudent and effective method of dealing with the world around us is to...”
– J. G. Ballard
November 2010
3 posts
“I probably won’t even vote for the guy [John McCain]… I had to endorse...”
– George W. Bush
Inconvenient
On progressive taxation:
I am conscious that an equal division of property is impracticable. But the consequences of this enormous inequality producing so much misery to the bulk of mankind, legislators cannot invent too many devices for subdividing property [….] Another means of silently lessening the inequality of property is to exempt all from taxation below a certain point, and to tax...
“Our sole consolation is the prospect of doom. For a while, email, in its...”
– n+1: Against Email
October 2010
4 posts
“The middle class doesn’t like to get welfare checks, so instead it gets...”
– Will Wilkinson (in The Economist)
“As Attorney General of Kentucky, I’m always amused to get a lecture in...”
– Jack Conway
“The Republican party is almost unique among major political parties across the...”
– Ryan Avent
“Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.”
– Niels Bohr
September 2010
6 posts
“To clarify: George Washington, like many other of our founding slave owners, was...”
– Wonkette, FTW
“Funny how so many Christianists believe in the literal truth of oral...”
– Andrew Sullivan
“Now that we live under the Kenyan Raj, and the Statue of Liberty is just some...”
– (the inimitable) Wonkette
“Contrary to the […] refrain that private sector growth is required, the...”
– Richard Seymour (talking about British spending cuts, but equally applicable here)
“Economics might be more useful if more economists’ lives were harder.”
“Unemployment, economic crises, militarization, terrorist regimes […] are...”
– Max Horkheimer
August 2010
6 posts
“[W]e must admit that capitalism has often left a gulf between superfluous wealth...”
– Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Where are the people who *love* their Android phones who aren’t computer...”
– John Gruber
“The problem with some critics of the mosque is that they treat the 1st Amendment...”
– Nate Silver (fivethirtyeight.com)
“This bill [providing $2.7B in tax breaks to the oil industry] is based on the...”
– Joe Barton (R-TX)
“An initiative measure adopted by the voters deserves great respect. The...”
– Chief Judge Vaughn R. Walker (Perry v. Schwarzenegger)
“Well, I don’t need to see GDP numbers or to listen to economists. All I need to...”
– (John Boehner)
Right, because what do economists know about economics? For that matter, why should we listen to electrical engineers about electricity? Or anesthesiologists about anesthesia? In fact, maybe he thinks “the American people” should design the airplanes he flies on?
These....
July 2010
1 post
“In the end, glorification of splendid underdogs is nothing other than...”
– Theodor Adorno
May 2010
2 posts
“This loss of historical continuity in values and beliefs, taken together with...”
– David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, p. 56-57
“In other words, [Rand Paul] prioritizes the property rights of whites who only...”
– Tim Wise (via newleft)
March 2010
1 post
I, like an usurp’d town, to another due, Labour to admit you, but O, to no end. Reason, your viceroy in me, me should defend, But is captived, and proves weak or untrue. Yet dearly I love you, and would be loved fain, But am betroth’d unto your enemy; Divorce me, untie, or break that knot again, Take me to you, imprison me, for I, Except you enthrall me, never shall be free, ...
February 2010
3 posts
Better Late Than Never
Well, somehow I missed my traditional winter quoting of Ezra Pound with the first nasty storm of the season, but as we’re heading into round 12839 of SnOMG 2010, the lack has become painfully glaring. Sing:
Winter is icumen in, Lhude sing Goddamm, Raineth drop and staineth slop, And how the wind doth ramm! Sing: Goddamm. Skiddeth bus and sloppeth us, Freezeth river, turneth liver, ...
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January 2010
7 posts
“On Broadway ticket prices are continually rising and, ironically, as each season...”
– Peter Brook, The Empty Space