September 2011
1 post
“Labor is prior to and independent of capital. Capital is only the fruit of...”
– Abraham Lincoln, noted Marxist Socialist Fascist.
Sep 5th
August 2011
1 post
“Anyone who characterizes the debt-ceiling deal as a victory for the American...”
– Robert Reich
Aug 1st
July 2011
3 posts
“Sit, be still, and listen, because you’re drunk and we’re at the...”
– Rumi
Jul 29th
“To start announcing your own preferences for old values when your world is...”
– Marshall McLuhan
Jul 25th
“Denigration of the full faith and credit of the United States would have...”
– Ronald Reagan
Jul 6th
1 note
June 2011
2 posts
“If you had to write a plausible scenario for how America defaults on its debt,...”
– Ezra Klein
Jun 23rd
“George Jefferson wore bell-bottoms to warn the British.”
– accordingtopalin
Jun 6th
1 note
April 2011
4 posts
“President Obama, if you look closely at his positions, is a moderate Republican...”
– Ezra Klein
Apr 26th
“There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life:...”
– John Rogers
Apr 12th
“The House leadership, with the Speaker, have a very clear choice to make. And...”
– Harry Reid
Apr 8th
“A plan dedicated almost entirely to slashing social spending in a country...”
– Kevin Drum
Apr 5th
March 2011
5 posts
“[T]o point out that [it just happens] that some people are destitute while...”
– Terry Eagleton
Mar 25th
“Everything about [theatre] shouldn’t work. It’s ludicrous, stupid....”
– Enda Walsh
Mar 14th
“Where free unions and collective bargaining are forbidden, freedom is lost.”
– St. Ronald of Reagan
Mar 8th
“… [T]he people who should be leading the charge to identify governmental...”
– Ezra Klein
Mar 3rd
“A unionized public employee, a member of the Tea Party and a Big Corp CEO are...”
Mar 2nd
February 2011
1 post
“The situation is thoroughly depressing. Washington seems to have finally gotten...”
– Ryan Avent (in The Economist)
Feb 15th
January 2011
2 posts
“A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense...”
– Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Jan 17th
“Yes, the Constitution is binding. No, it’s not clear which interpretation of the...”
– Ezra Klein
Jan 6th
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
Dec 26th
“We are now living in a global state that has been structured for the benefit of...”
– Charlie Stross, Invaders from Mars (Emphasis mine)
Dec 15th
“It’s the standard bribery model of legislating that has come to...”
– Christopher Hayes, “Tax Cuts Forever?”
Dec 13th
“The most prudent and effective method of dealing with the world around us is to...”
–  J. G. Ballard
Dec 11th
November 2010
3 posts
“I probably won’t even vote for the guy [John McCain]… I had to endorse...”
–  George W. Bush 
Nov 10th
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...
Nov 6th
“Our sole consolation is the prospect of doom. For a while, email, in its...”
– n+1: Against Email
Nov 3rd
3 notes
October 2010
4 posts
“The middle class doesn’t like to get welfare checks, so instead it gets...”
– Will Wilkinson (in The Economist)
Oct 28th
“As Attorney General of Kentucky, I’m always amused to get a lecture in...”
– Jack Conway
Oct 18th
“The Republican party is almost unique among major political parties across the...”
– Ryan Avent
Oct 15th
“Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.”
– Niels Bohr
Oct 4th
September 2010
6 posts
“To clarify: George Washington, like many other of our founding slave owners, was...”
– Wonkette, FTW
Sep 21st
“Funny how so many Christianists believe in the literal truth of oral...”
– Andrew Sullivan
Sep 18th
“Now that we live under the Kenyan Raj, and the Statue of Liberty is just some...”
– (the inimitable) Wonkette
Sep 16th
“Contrary to the […] refrain that private sector growth is required, the...”
– Richard Seymour (talking about British spending cuts, but equally applicable here)
Sep 14th
“Economics might be more useful if more economists’ lives were harder.”
Sep 13th
“Unemployment, economic crises, militarization, terrorist regimes […] are...”
– Max Horkheimer
Sep 9th
August 2010
6 posts
“[W]e must admit that capitalism has often left a gulf between superfluous wealth...”
– Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Aug 28th
“Where are the people who *love* their Android phones who aren’t computer...”
– John Gruber
Aug 25th
“The problem with some critics of the mosque is that they treat the 1st Amendment...”
– Nate Silver (fivethirtyeight.com)
Aug 14th
“This bill [providing $2.7B in tax breaks to the oil industry] is based on the...”
– Joe Barton (R-TX)
Aug 5th
“An initiative measure adopted by the voters deserves great respect. The...”
– Chief Judge Vaughn R. Walker (Perry v. Schwarzenegger)
Aug 4th
“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....
Aug 1st
July 2010
1 post
“In the end, glorification of splendid underdogs is nothing other than...”
– Theodor Adorno
Jul 12th
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
May 28th
“In other words, [Rand Paul] prioritizes the property rights of whites who only...”
– Tim Wise (via newleft)
May 20th
29 notes
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, ...
Mar 25th
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, ...
Feb 10th
Feb 9th
Famous Directors Direct the Superbowl. →
Feb 7th
January 2010
7 posts
“On Broadway ticket prices are continually rising and, ironically, as each season...”
– Peter Brook, The Empty Space
Jan 31st