“I wonder what all those guys Obama beat out for the Nobel Peace Prize are doing now.”
-The Onion raises a valid point
Category: briefly noted
short notes from my reading
“This caucus, let’s face it, marks the beginning of a long, rigidly-controlled, carefully choreographed process that is really designed to do two things: weed out dangerous minority opinions, and award power to the candidate who least offends the public while he goes about his primary job of energetically representing establishment interests.”
-Matt Taibbi calls it what it is in Iowa
“The way things are needs to be interrupted, so that we can hear about the way things should be.”
-Professor Richard D. Wolff of the University of Massachusetts and the New School, as heard on his WBAI show, “Economic Update”.
I am so sick of hearing how, “Oh, this Obama is a socialist. He’s a Marxist.” No he is not. The merger of state and corporate powers is called fascism.
-Gerald Celente talking about how MF Global robbed him.
“I don’t see anyone in the Republican majority demanding drug testing for folks who receive oil and gas subsidies.”
-Rep Clyburn, commenting on the House bill that would allow states to require drug-testing for anyone seeking unemployment benefits.
“Writing is what’s important to me, and anything that helps me do that — or enhances and prolongs and deepens and sometimes intensifies argument and conversation — is worth it to me.”
-Christopher Hitchens, dead at 62, had no regrets for a lifetime of drinking, smoking, arguing, and writing.
“An artist is above all a human being, profoundly human to the core. If the artist can’t feel everything that humanity feels, if the artist isn’t capable of loving until he forgets himself and sacrifices himself if necessary, if he won’t put down his magic brush and head the fight against the oppressor, then he isn’t a great artist.”
-Mexican painter Diego Rivera, 125 today.
46 million Americans are now receiving food assistance. How is this issue swept under the rug?
The Governor’s current favorite cereals are Brown Sugar Chex Bites and Quaker Oatmeal Squares.
-Politico’s Mike Allen, bringing us the important campaign issues of the day.
So who gets listened to in national debates, those who have been consistently right on all the key points, or those who have gotten things as wrong as you possibly can? Okay, we know the answer to that, but this knowledge is important. We are dealing with people who have no argument; they are relying on their control of public debate to get their way.
-Economist Dean Baker, on getting the truth out.