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Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers. Jimmy Breslin
December 28, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers. Jimmy Breslin
If you ever start to feel too good about yourself, they have this thing called the Internet, and you can find a lot of people there who don’t like you. Tina Fey, Golden Globes Acceptance Speech, 2009
December 28, 2025 at 10:52 AM
If you ever start to feel too good about yourself, they have this thing called the Internet, and you can find a lot of people there who don’t like you. Tina Fey, Golden Globes Acceptance Speech, 2009
We’ve heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true. Robert Wilensky, speech at a 1996 conference
December 28, 2025 at 10:49 AM
We’ve heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true. Robert Wilensky, speech at a 1996 conference
We’ve heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true. (Robert Wilensky, speech at a 1996 conference)
December 28, 2025 at 10:48 AM
We’ve heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true. (Robert Wilensky, speech at a 1996 conference)
Congrats and admiration to the millions of Americans who marched on No KIngs Day. May your tribe increase.
October 22, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Congrats and admiration to the millions of Americans who marched on No KIngs Day. May your tribe increase.
"Crazy talk" (as opposed to merely "stupid talk") ". . . requires that we be mystified, suspend critical judgment, accept premises without question, and (frequently) abandon entirely the idea that language ought to be connected with reality.” [Neil Postman, 1976]
September 24, 2025 at 5:19 PM
"Crazy talk" (as opposed to merely "stupid talk") ". . . requires that we be mystified, suspend critical judgment, accept premises without question, and (frequently) abandon entirely the idea that language ought to be connected with reality.” [Neil Postman, 1976]
"Richard Nixon, on the basis of this sort of reasoning [that the worst of humans also deserve representatives] could have defended himself by arguing that since there are so many criminals in America they deserve to be represented by a President who is himself a criminal." [Neil Postman, 1976]
September 19, 2025 at 7:20 PM
"Richard Nixon, on the basis of this sort of reasoning [that the worst of humans also deserve representatives] could have defended himself by arguing that since there are so many criminals in America they deserve to be represented by a President who is himself a criminal." [Neil Postman, 1976]
“From Putin to Modi to Xi to Trump, thugs dominate the globe, inciting tribal violence while they steal their nations blind. In its unchecked cruelty and unbearable pain, the destruction of Gaza is a symbol of our age.” – Peter Beinart
September 10, 2025 at 1:00 PM
“From Putin to Modi to Xi to Trump, thugs dominate the globe, inciting tribal violence while they steal their nations blind. In its unchecked cruelty and unbearable pain, the destruction of Gaza is a symbol of our age.” – Peter Beinart
July 15, 2025 at 5:30 PM
About so-called "collective right": Collective rights that abrogate, attenuate, or deny human rights are not rights--they're wrongs.
June 27, 2025 at 3:39 PM
About so-called "collective right": Collective rights that abrogate, attenuate, or deny human rights are not rights--they're wrongs.
“Slavery was the root of all struggle. For it was said that the factories enslaved the hands of children, and that child-bearing enslaved the bodies of women, and that rum enslaved the souls of men.
June 26, 2025 at 9:27 PM
“Slavery was the root of all struggle. For it was said that the factories enslaved the hands of children, and that child-bearing enslaved the bodies of women, and that rum enslaved the souls of men.
"Art is not what you see, but what you make others see." [Edgar Degas]
June 4, 2025 at 1:56 PM
"Art is not what you see, but what you make others see." [Edgar Degas]
Mark Carney did OK in his meeting with The Mad King Donald Chump. Stephen Marche did even better in his interview following the WH meeting.
May 6, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Mark Carney did OK in his meeting with The Mad King Donald Chump. Stephen Marche did even better in his interview following the WH meeting.
“People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacity to think.” [(Neil Postman in Amusing Ourselves to Death (1985), quoting Aldous Huxley in Brave New World (1932)]
May 1, 2025 at 11:59 AM
“People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacity to think.” [(Neil Postman in Amusing Ourselves to Death (1985), quoting Aldous Huxley in Brave New World (1932)]
"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored./ Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him. / We are all geniuses up to the age of ten./ The means employed determine the nature of the ends produced." (Aldous Huxley, 1894-1963)
May 1, 2025 at 11:55 AM
"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored./ Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him. / We are all geniuses up to the age of ten./ The means employed determine the nature of the ends produced." (Aldous Huxley, 1894-1963)
I voted early. It was the easiest decision in years.
April 26, 2025 at 3:33 PM
I voted early. It was the easiest decision in years.
Jack Todd said this: "If we have to become fascists to defeat fascism, we are doomed." And I agree: fools becoming fascist to defeat fascism are competing fascists.
April 22, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Jack Todd said this: "If we have to become fascists to defeat fascism, we are doomed." And I agree: fools becoming fascist to defeat fascism are competing fascists.
The other day, I asked my brother whether anyone (besides me) is worried that Trump’s recent assaults (especially the deportations) are really about PLANNING for a declaration of war?” His response was so right on: “With Trump it’s never easy to distinguish between unlikely and inevitable.”
April 9, 2025 at 11:36 AM
The other day, I asked my brother whether anyone (besides me) is worried that Trump’s recent assaults (especially the deportations) are really about PLANNING for a declaration of war?” His response was so right on: “With Trump it’s never easy to distinguish between unlikely and inevitable.”
We well understood that the historical alienation and oppression of our own people was intended to leveraged toward concern for all marginalized populations.”
[Source: For a Time Such as This (On Being Jewish Today), by Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove, PhD, published 2024 by HarperCollins]
[Source: For a Time Such as This (On Being Jewish Today), by Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove, PhD, published 2024 by HarperCollins]
March 29, 2025 at 8:20 PM
We well understood that the historical alienation and oppression of our own people was intended to leveraged toward concern for all marginalized populations.”
[Source: For a Time Such as This (On Being Jewish Today), by Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove, PhD, published 2024 by HarperCollins]
[Source: For a Time Such as This (On Being Jewish Today), by Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove, PhD, published 2024 by HarperCollins]
a woman belongs on a synagogue pulpit as much as an orange belongs on a seder plate—meaning not at all. And thus the feminist tradition and new Jewish ritual of putting an orange on the seder plate began at her seder and then at many others—ours included.
March 29, 2025 at 8:20 PM
a woman belongs on a synagogue pulpit as much as an orange belongs on a seder plate—meaning not at all. And thus the feminist tradition and new Jewish ritual of putting an orange on the seder plate began at her seder and then at many others—ours included.
Don't forget to put an orange on the seder plate. “One year, I recall, an orange appeared on our Seder table. Why? As goes the urban myth, the great contemporary scholar of Jewish studies Dr. Susannah Heschel was once confronted by a curmudgeonly man who insisted that
March 29, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Don't forget to put an orange on the seder plate. “One year, I recall, an orange appeared on our Seder table. Why? As goes the urban myth, the great contemporary scholar of Jewish studies Dr. Susannah Heschel was once confronted by a curmudgeonly man who insisted that
Now I've seen the perfect image of a diseased mind, drunk and giddy on delusions of absolute power: Elon Musk With Chainsaw.
February 28, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Now I've seen the perfect image of a diseased mind, drunk and giddy on delusions of absolute power: Elon Musk With Chainsaw.
“Has the casual use of profanity in English reached a high tide? That’s a rhetorical question, but I’m going to answer it anyway: Fuck yeah.” [Mary Norris, Between You & Me]
February 5, 2025 at 3:00 PM
“Has the casual use of profanity in English reached a high tide? That’s a rhetorical question, but I’m going to answer it anyway: Fuck yeah.” [Mary Norris, Between You & Me]
Have now deleted my Facebook account, which deletion will take effect 30 days from now. Had to change my password first; that was fun. But unmentioable.
February 5, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Have now deleted my Facebook account, which deletion will take effect 30 days from now. Had to change my password first; that was fun. But unmentioable.
Netanyahu and Trump news conference: Pass the bucket.
February 5, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Netanyahu and Trump news conference: Pass the bucket.