February 2012
22 posts
“We are not hated because we practice democracy, value freedom, or uphold human...”
– Former US Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Robert Bowman, in Howard Zinn’s “A People’s History of the United States”.
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YES YES YES THIS THIS THIS
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I want this emblazoned on my forehead for all of the American entitlement people out there.
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“He is thinking about asymmetry. This is a world, he is thinking, where you can...”
– Skippy Dies, Paul Murray
No disrespect for Howard Jacobson, but Murray’s book was positively ROBBED of the 2010 Booker Prize. We reviewed it glowlingly back then, people have coordinated outfits to match its cover since that time, and I can tell you that it’s the only book I’ve ever read that had...
January 2012
85 posts
“I met my wife, she was a, uh, a elevator operator at the Taft Hotel. And we were...”
– Tom Waits (via fytomwaits)