January 21, 2010
"While American democracy is imperfect, few outside the majority of this Court would have thought its flaws included a dearth of corporate money in politics."

— Justice Stevens, dissenting

4:13pm  |   URL: http://easilydistracted.org/post/346433057/while-american-democracy-is-imperfect-few-outside
January 18, 2010
Numbers

azspot:

GDP of Haiti: $8.5 billion.

Goldman Sachs bonus pool: $20 billion.

1:07am  |   URL: http://easilydistracted.org/post/340429830/numbers
(Notes: 394)
  
January 14, 2010
"This is why today’s China is so unsettling…what if this strain of authoritarian capitalism proves itself to be more efficient, more profitable, than our liberal capitalism? What if democracy is no longer the necessary and natural accompaniment of economic development, but its impediment?"

— Slavoj Žižek, First as Tragedy, Then as Farce

7:55pm  |   URL: http://easilydistracted.org/post/334912906/this-is-why-todays-china-is-so-unsettling-what-if
January 13, 2010
thedailywhat: Robert Penney: “Retro Games With Modern Themes” Exclusively for the Cartridge Video System 2600. [gamesetwatch.]

thedailywhat:

Robert Penney: “Retro Games With Modern Themes”

Exclusively for the Cartridge Video System 2600.

[gamesetwatch.]

8:05am  |   URL: http://easilydistracted.org/post/332332202/thedailywhat-robert-penney-retro-games-with
(Notes: 3,729)
  
December 25, 2009
blackandwtf: via stevechasmar.

blackandwtf:

via stevechasmar.

11:16pm  |   URL: http://easilydistracted.org/post/300746919/blackandwtf-via-stevechasmar
(Notes: 29)
  
December 19, 2009

5:03pm  |   URL: http://easilydistracted.org/post/290772137
(Notes: 461)
  
December 9, 2009
thedailywhat: Comic JK.

thedailywhat:

Comic JK.

6:47am  |   URL: http://easilydistracted.org/post/276013833/thedailywhat-comic-jk
(Notes: 199)
  
November 23, 2009
mkat21: (via palahniukandchocolate) all i need in life.

mkat21:

(via palahniukandchocolate)

all i need in life.

5:18pm  |   URL: http://easilydistracted.org/post/254776757/mkat21-via-palahniukandchocolate-all-i-need
(Notes: 100)
  
November 17, 2009
"I’m not interested in writing short stories. Anything that doesn’t take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing."

— Cormac McCarthy

2:11pm  |   URL: http://easilydistracted.org/post/247474115/im-not-interested-in-writing-short-stories
October 20, 2009
(via classy randomness)

(via classy randomness)

4:20pm  |   URL: http://easilydistracted.org/post/218359327/via-classy-randomness
(Notes: 1)