"To clarify: George Washington, like many other of our founding slave owners, was a Deist, which is like the old-timey version of Atheism except with more clock-making…"
— Wonkette, FTW
Random noise from Chris's brain.
September 21, 2010
September 18, 2010
"Funny how so many Christianists believe in the literal truth of oral mistranscribed centuries-old hearsay in the Bible, but not in a documented, proven historical fact in their own lifetimes."
— Andrew Sullivan
September 16, 2010
"Now that we live under the Kenyan Raj, and the Statue of Liberty is just some chick with an Afro standing in the middle of the Harlem River holding a flaming Sly & the Family Stone record (and The Communist Manifesto), it’s hard to find books and pamphlets written by enraged white Republicans."
— (the inimitable) Wonkette
September 14, 2010
"Contrary to the […] refrain that private sector growth is required, the state has to provide much of the growth in the coming period, to make up for the feebleness of the private sector, where few are investing, and few lending (even if a new round of debt/speculation-based growth was desirable). Cutting spending at this point […] may be like dragging an ailing […] capitalism off the life support, humping it out of the hospital, kicking it through the doors and saying‘“now walk, you bastard’. Even Jesus wouldn’t be that arrogant."
— Richard Seymour (talking about British spending cuts, but equally applicable here)
September 13, 2010
"Economics might be more useful if more economists’ lives were harder."
September 9, 2010
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Unemployment, economic crises, militarization, terrorist regimes […] are not due to limited technological possibilities, as might have been the case in earlier periods, but to the circumstances of production…
Production is not geared to the life of the whole community while also heeding the claims of individuals; it is geared to the power-backed claims of individuals while being hardly concerned with the life of the community. This is the inevitable result, under the present property order, of the principle that it is sufficient for individuals to look out for themselves.
"— Max Horkheimer
August 28, 2010
"[W]e must admit that capitalism has often left a gulf between superfluous wealth and abject poverty, has created conditions permitting necessities to be taken from the many to give luxuries to the few, and has encouraged small hearted men to become cold and conscienceless so that, like Dives before Lazarus, they are unmoved by suffering, poverty-stricken humanity…The profit motive, when it is the sole basis of an economic system, encourages a cutthroat competition and selfish ambition…It can make men so I-centered that they are no longer thou-centered. Are we not too prone to judge success by the index of our salaries and the size of our wheel base on our automobiles, and not by the quality of our service and relationship to humanity?"
— Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
August 25, 2010
"Where are the people who *love* their Android phones who aren’t computer geeks. Non-geek iPhone and BlackBerry lovers are everywhere."
August 14, 2010
"The problem with some critics of the mosque is that they treat the 1st Amendment as a technicality, rather than (also) a set of values."
— Nate Silver (fivethirtyeight.com)
August 5, 2010
"This bill [providing $2.7B in tax breaks to the oil industry] is based on the premise that we believe in private, free-market capitalism to develop the resources of this land in a cost-efficient manner."
— Joe Barton (R-TX)
