Wednesday, February 28, 2018

no. 526

“I always wonder when you see someone saying "I need my gun so the government can't put me in a death camp", jesus, how can you live in a country you perpetually believe is one step from murdering millions of its citizens? That must be stressful. I mean, are you not worried that every time you go to the post office they are just going to lock the doors behind you and start pumping in carbon monoxide?”

Eoin Howe, commenting on Republicans

no. 525

“It's a direct result of their decades long campaign to build up an immunity to irony.”

Matthew Quirk, commenting on the GOP’s lack of a sense of humor.

Tuesday, February 27, 2018

no. 524

“Unintentionality?” Mica asked as she soldered the top onto a canister. “Is that a word?” 
“It’s like unpredictability,” Yumi said, “except with a higher chance of death being the result.”

From “Relic of Sorrows” by Lindsay Buroker

Saturday, February 24, 2018

no. 523

"One prefers to be civil on Twitter, but here’s an idea for you: Fuck off. Then keep fucking off. Fuck off until you come up to a gate with a sign saying “You Can’t Fuck Off Past Here”. Climb over the gate, dream the impossible dream, and keep fucking off forever."

Michael Marshall Smith

Friday, February 23, 2018

no. 522

“America’s boys are broken. And it’s killing us.”
Black cites an outdated model of masculinity as the culprit, “where manhood is measured in strength, where there is no way to be vulnerable without being emasculated, where manliness is about having power over others.”
“They are trapped,” he writes, “and they don’t even have the language to talk about how they feel about being trapped, because the language that exists to express the full range of human emotion is still viewed as sensitive and feminine.”

Michael Ian Black < https://nyti.ms/2CbA9kd >

Friday, February 16, 2018

no. 521

"The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.

Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.

But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.

This was the Captain Samuel Vimes 'Boots' theory of socioeconomic unfairness”

Terry Pritchett in “Men at Arms”

no. 520

"Both mass shooters and gun defenders agree that violence with guns is the best possible solution for the problems they perceive in the world, and themselves the most appropriate possible instrument to deliver it.

They disagree only on the appropriateness of target."

Julius Goat, on Twitter after the latest school shooting.

Sunday, February 11, 2018

no. 519

“There is no anchor any more. At the core of the administration of the most powerful country on earth, there is, instead, madness.”

~ Andrew Sullivan



For future reference, this is about the Trump administration.