December 2009
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“Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.”
– bumper sticker
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from "Strangers With Candy"
Derrick: Listen, nobody wants you on the team!
Alan: Why? I'm a good athlete, I just happen to be a little different.
Derrick: Yeah, but... No, you're confusing us! Let's go watch some gay porn so we can get our hate back.
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“As for romance, Frank had dated a few women over the years but found them to be...”
– Sherman Alexie, “What Ever Happened To Frank Snake Church?”, Ten Little Indians
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“[F]rank knew he was guilty of arrogance and misanthropy, but he compensated by...”
– Sherman Alexie, “What Ever Happened To Frank Snake Church?”, Ten Little Indians
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“She’d wanted to completely shave her head: I don’t want long hair, I...”
– Sherman Alexie, “Flight Patterns”, Ten Little Indians
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“We didn’t domesticate cats. They domesticated themselves. But not totally,...”
– Sherman Alexie, “Lawyer’s League”, Ten Little Indians
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from "The Daily Show", 12/16/09
Jon: If we do beat you [at the World Cup], it really does, in some respects, put the final nail in the Empire. Your move.
Hugh Grant: I agree with that, I mean you know the Empire is gone, and it's very sad, it's very sad for a lot of the world, now having to govern themselves I believe.
Jon: Well I believe we're helping to take care of that, so...
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“He’s… from Connecticut, a state where people don’t even allow...”
– Jon Stewart on Joe Lieberman, 12/16/09
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“We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we...”
– Albert Einstein (via mnmal) (via proofmathisbeautiful) (via fuckyeahtheorists)
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“[D]esire is neither the appetite for satisfaction nor the demand for love, but...”
– Jacques Lacan
Also: “[D]esire’s raison d’être is not to realize its goal, to find full satisfaction, but to reproduce itself as desire.” —Slavoj Žižek
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“[H]e was damned if he was going to water down his arguments simply to satisfy...”
– Ben Elton, The First Casualty
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“No one gets angry at a mathematician or a physicist whom he or she doesn’t...”
– Presidential Lectures: Jacques Derrida: Interviews
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“Only 24 more shopping days to accept Jesus Christ as your lord and savior.”
– Stephen Colbert, 12/1/09
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WatchCevin Soling | November 30, 2009 | ColbertNation.com - Cevin Soling says public schools have been transformed into prisons because of an overdependence on security. - Interesting stuff on how schools were created and how they were eventually modeled on factories in the Industrial age.