July 2010
59 posts
“Reagan won that election by promising — with a wink and a smile — to finally let...”
– How Ronald Reagan Killed Edith Bunker (via azspot)
tanya77:
youngmanhattanite:
nycthe:
On the street yesterday, I walked by a man who had on a gorgeous outfit. Everything about it was perfect, it had a very awesome_old_man_in_europe vibe. I walked by and stared at him. “I love your outfit,” spilled out of my mouth. He looked behind himself, then looked at me again, a smile cracking his face. “Yah, yours” I said. “It’s amazing.”
He lit up....
“What I don’t understand is how corporations were granted their immunity. How it...”
– Roger Ebert (via azspot)
“For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.”
– H.L. Mencken (via azspot)
“We view ourselves as rational creatures. But is it rational to wait like sheep...”
– Chris Hedges (via azspot)
“It’s just too bad I didn’t get a shot. I had an impulse to connect....”
– Neil Young
The Disappearing Intellectual in the Age of... →
tanya77:
azspot:
The giant oil spill in the Gulf is rarely viewed as part of a much broader systemic crisis of democracy. Instead, it is treated as an unfortunate disaster caused by corporate greed or negligence. Celebrity culture puts much of the population in a moral coma and perpetual state of ignorance. Coupled with a pedagogy of economic Darwinism that is spewed out daily in the...
WatchWar is welfare for killing.
