September 2008
“Destroying intellectual freedom is always evil, but only religion makes doing...”
– Philip Pullman on the pointless menace of censorship | Books | guardian.co.uk
In some ways what we are seeing now is also reassuring. It is the end of a great, recent American illusion. The illusion that you can delegate self-government to a great leader. You can’t. The illusion that wars are won purely by saying they can’t be lost. The illusion that you can borrow and borrow and spend and spend and the day of reckoning will never come. But that day is here. And it is long...
“The people who want English to be the official language of the United States are...”
– Jed Bartlett and Obama. « PostBourgie
Paranoia is the purest form of literary criticism. It’s the product of an incessantly interpretive mind. Imposing patterns upon patterns of self reference, it places the self center and everything is filtered through its relationship with the interpreter. And the best thing about is that it’s totally incontrovertible. It’s based purely on a closed system, a set of subjective references set upon...
“Life is a bleak festival of betrayals and disappointments.
- From Le weblog...”
– Being and Nothingness
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“At the very least it would make a great film: ten minutes into what you think is...”
– BLDGBLOG: Outer Darkness
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Sarah, we are not that different, you and I
Of course the irony of all this is how conservatives have, for years, lampooned the liberal pursuit of multiculturalism/identity politics. But here’s the thing, even when done haphazardly, awkwardly, and imprudently, the fight against bigotry and ignorance has rewards. But when you decide to not be a leader in the fight against sexism/racism and simply criticize those who do, you rob...
“The new recommended medical practice when you discover that you have a fever is...”
– Welcome to History | Economics | The American Scene
“Again, the findings suggest that facts that contradicted political ideology were...”
– Does ideology trump facts? Studies say it often does
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A Third Class Temperament
The political left always aims to expand the permeation of economic life by politics.
Today, the efficient means to that end is government control of capital. So, is not McCain’s party now conducting the most leftist administration in American history? The New Deal never acted so precipitously on such a scale. Treasury Secretary Paulson, asked about conservative complaints that his...
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“It’s clear that the McCain campaign has basically decided on using the...”
– Ta-Nehisi Coates (September 22, 2008) - Flailing
“The Second Circuit has just issued a unanimous decision ordering the Bush...”
– Justice will come
“Q: What is a liberal? A: A conservative who has been ripped off by Wall Street.”
– Single funniest blog post I ever read - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com
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“This Administration deserves to be trusted because it has kept us safe from...”
– “Trust him”
“It was exactly this pattern before the Iraq war and remains exactly this pattern...”
– “Trust Us”
“Are you fucking kidding me? We are now rigging the debate formats to compensate...”
– Deference Watch - The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan
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“In the last few years, we have seen the executive branch declare itself outside...”
– How Democracies Become Dictatorships
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“Overheard: what Barack said to David As Barack Obama met David Cameron yesterday...”
– Barack Obama: He came. He saw. He, er, left - Times Online
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“Let’s grant that science and religion are not incompatible—there are after...”
– Without God - The New York Review of Books
“In the end, morality is about the decisions we make that affect other people....”
– The Frontal Cortex : Is Porn Adultery?
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“Unpopular ideas can be silenced, and inconvenient facts kept dark, without the...”
– The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan
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“Wasilla women who went to the police saying that they had been sexually...”
– http://www.feedly.com/feedly#preview/feed/http://feeds.feedburner.com/BitchPhd
“Confabulation, also known as false memory is the confusion of imagination with...”
– Confabulation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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“What is the role of evaluation in your critical work?” Manny Farber was once...”
– JonathanRosenbaum.com » Blog Archive » They Drive by Night: The Criticism of Manny Farber
Buy Carl Theodor Dreyer: Special Edition Box Set... →
Carl Theodor Dreyer - Ordet (1955) (download... →
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“Almost half a century later, it’s easier for me to see that [ Ordet ] poses an...”
– JonathanRosenbaum.com » Featured Texts
“Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.”
– Tom Waits quotes
Fake following →
“To my mind, what is happening now in the economy is the same as what happened in...”
– The Best Single Summary
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“First of all – you fucking fake Christians - don’t fucking question my...”
– Margaret Cho Blog » Blog Archive » I’m a Christian, you Fuckers
