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Beyond Marx
Aug. 2nd, 2017 06:51 amNixon was the Shakespearean tragedy, *Bush* was already the farce, Trump is some avant-garde anti-humor vomiting-on-the-audience bullshit–Arthur Chu
This is important
Apr. 30th, 2017 03:02 pmAlso, listen up: gender is a spectrum. The closer you look at ANYTHING the blurrier the lines get. INCLUDING GENDER. LIFE is complicated--Adam Savage
Read the whole thing.
Before Mencken
Sep. 6th, 2016 05:21 amHenry Adams said, “There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.”
Thanx to Quotes of the Day
Thanx to Quotes of the Day
Herd of blind pigs finds acorn
Jul. 31st, 2016 06:41 amTrump delegate Peter Thiel says something sane:
Instead of going to Mars, we have invaded the Middle EastThanx to RAW Illumination.
There is nothing more tiresome than respectable Republicans who go around moaning about Donald Trump now and pretend that they don't know how all this ever happened to their party, who pretend that their long-fingered vulgarianism hasn't depended vitally on short-fingered vulgarianism for four decades–Charles Pierce
Charles Pierce in the quotefile again
Apr. 30th, 2015 06:23 amConsider what's being said here. Judge Pape is thanking the governor for having the Texas guard "monitor" an Army training exercise because too many of their voters are bughouse crazy. There are Americans who go to sleep at night worrying that they will be abducted by renegade gynocologists from Alpha Centauri. We call those people "crackpots." In Texas, organized paranoids are just another constituency to be serviced.--Charles Pierce
Here’s the thing about men like David Koch: Making money is basically just a video game to them. For the rest of us, making money is about being able to pay for things we need and want, such as rent and food and actual video games. But David Koch has made so much money that he literally cannot spend it all. There is nothing he would want to buy he cannot already afford. The only purpose at this point in making more money is for the pleasure of beating your high score. In other words, it really is just a very consuming video game. But unlike when you kill people in Call of Duty or crush candies in Candy Crush, the game David Koch is playing is very real. Millions of people will suffer and die because he wants to “win” his video game by manipulating the public to avoid taking action on global warming. That is evil and hateful and selfish on a level that puts the word “selfish” to shame--Amanda MarcotteThanx to Pandagon.
Revilement
Aug. 8th, 2014 06:53 amI could probably do a Charles P. Pierce bit in the Quotefile every day, but one must have some restraint. Today's is irresistible:
The editors at Tiger Beat On The Potomac went out of their way to give column space to Rich (Sparkle Pants) Lowry, the editor of the longtime white-supremacist journal, National Review. Today, Richie would like to remind the nation that he found the grown-up pants in the back of the closet next to the Paul Wolfowitz action figures.
Babu Science
Jul. 27th, 2014 05:30 amThe success of mathematical physics led the social scientist to be jealous of its power without quite understanding the intellectual attitudes that had contributed to this power. The use of mathematical formulae had accompanied the development of the natural sciences and become the mode in the social sciences. Just as primitive peoples adopt the Western modes of denationalized clothing and of parliamentarianism out of a vague feeling that these magic rites and vestments will at once put them abreast of modern culture and technique, so the economists have developed the habit of dressing up their rather imprecise ideas in the language of the infinitesimal calculus--Norbert Weiner, God & Golem, Inc.
The abortion issue has been on everyone’s mind lately. On Thursday, the Supreme Court issued a unanimous finding that the 35-foot buffer zones around Massachusetts abortion clinics violated protesters’ freedom of speech. We do not have time to discuss this in detail, except to point out that this decision came from people who work in a building where the protesters aren’t allowed within 250 feet of the front door--Gail Collins
Boehner's latest
Jun. 26th, 2014 06:07 amIs it possible for an empty suit to file an empty suit?-Charles P. Pierce
Delocalization
Apr. 14th, 2014 06:19 amI remember the liberalization of censorship of both text and images in the 1960s. The overall effect, it seemed to me, was that sex got less creepy. You could tell where it was and where it wasn’t–Teresa Nielsen Hayden (and read the comments)
Thanx to Making Light.
Thanx to Making Light.
But do you like him?
Mar. 23rd, 2014 05:33 pmBlow me, you monstrous, bloodthirsty fraud, you silly, stupid chickenhawk motherfker who plays army man with the children of people who are so much better than you are, and who would feed innocent civilians in lands you will never visit into your own personal meatgrinder to service your semi-annual martial erection. You and the rest of your cowardly cohort helped prepare the ground for the worst geopolitical mistake the country has made in 30 years. You fought the battle of the Green Rooms and the think tanks while other people's sons and daughters died for your fantasy of how the world would work if you really were the pimply, adolescent Zeus you see when you look in the mirror every morning. The country does not need you lectures any more. The country does not need your counsel. The country does not need your advice. And, as sure as human beings have become dead because of your lectures, and counsel, and advice, human beings about whom you otherwise care nothing, the country does not need your hectoring that it has become insufficiently bellicose to fulfill your newest, blood-drenched fantasies. Even here, even now, you hide behind the skirts of a woman from Indiana who, while I believe her to be wrong, seems to be genuine in her beliefs. You are unworthy of her intellectual camouflage. You should be driven from polite society, consigned to an ideological Molokai so you can no longer infect the rest of us. People should shun you. You should wear the bell for the rest of your miserable days.--Charles Pierce on William Kristol
On Strategic Calm, as a Virtue
Mar. 11th, 2014 05:59 amAs the years go by, I am more and more convinced that the immediate, fast-twitch talk-show responses about what we "have" to do in response to various developments are almost always wrong, and the calm, day- or week-after reflections about proportion, response, and national interest are almost always wiser. If I could, I would put all cable-TV discussion of breaking-news crises on a 24-hour delay. Maybe there has been a case in which immediate reflex-response to big news has seemed wise in the long run. Right now I can't think of any.–James Fallows
