January 2011
2 posts
“In reality, fairness is not so much about the actual distribution of loot as it...”
– Scott Adams on How to Tax the Rich - WSJ.com
“The poor Joneses! Mr. Jones can’t afford that new suit he really wanted!...”
– Down and Out on $250,000 a Year - TheFiscalTimes.com
Wherein a commentor decries the attempt to show how hard the life and tax burden of a rich american family are. zing.
December 2010
1 post
wikileaks didn’t embarrass government. they embarrassed journalists.
November 2010
3 posts
“I say yes when I am asked if I have a Ph.D. in sociology. I say yes when I am...”
– The Shadow Scholar - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education
October 2010
5 posts
“It’s hard to tell young people that universities recognize that their...”
– Graduate School in the Humanities: Just Don’t Go - Advice - The Chronicle of Higher Education
“I would simply suggest that you ask those who tell you about the wonders of...”
– Noam Chomsky on Post-Modernism
“We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we...”
– – ALBERT EINSTEIN
September 2010
7 posts
“I’ve concluded that the whole miserable narrative boils down to one stark...”
– Tea & Crackers | Rolling Stone Politics
I really like Matt Taibbi, I think he has great style and wit and look forward to reading more of his columns.
But I’ve read enough of these articles that dismiss the Tea Party as “full of shit”. He is basically saying that these...
4si4:
chmiller87:
As some of you may know, I claim to be a Republican most of the time. However, that is only because I place a high value on conservative economic policy, and in the current political system voting for a third political party is equivalent to throwing your vote away. In reality my true political affiliation is the Libertarian Party. For those of you less educated on political...
“Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile...”
– Representation: Edmund Burke, Speech to the Electors of Bristol
“For these institutional leaders and patrons of the Tea Party movement, this is...”
– Tea Party Rocks Primaries — RollingStone.com
“If adopted, such a law would violate the human rights of women who choose to...”
– Bosnia and Herzegovina must reject Burqa ban | Amnesty International
August 2010
6 posts
“Now, your infrastructure is falling to pieces under your feet, and as citizens...”
– A letter to my students « The Berkeley Blog
“Ridiculing tea party shenanigans is a serious error, I think. It would be far...”
– The Radical Intellectual - Noam Chomsky
“I don’t want to be part of the problem any more, and I think I will sleep better...”
– Career Advice: Stop Admitting Ph.D. Students - Inside Higher Ed
“Hitchens was pleasantly surprised by the response of his parents; his father, a...”
– Out.com Features | Christopher Hitchens Comes Clean
“Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts, that is indeed something on which...”
– Text of J.K. Rowling’s speech | Harvard Gazette Online
“Canada is an example of the virtues of a relatively traditional approach to...”
– Krugman warns Canada not immune - The Globe and Mail
July 2010
10 posts
Unsolicited Analysis: RE: Credit Regs →
Consumer finance legislation is the worst argument in the world, because you have to argue in code.
Credit cards take money from irresponsible people and give it to sharks. That’s how the system works. I pay off my AMEX and AMEX sends me on vacation because Joe Smith overleveraged and is being…
When you say, “I like” the way this works, what exactly do you mean? You like...
“Unfortunately, I don’t think Democrats have the guts or the stamina to put...”
– Bruce Bartlett on the deficit, economy and VAT: Six questions for Bruce Bartlett | The Economist
“This is a profoundly ideologically and philosophically motivated skirmish...”
– When Smart Parties Make Stupid Decisions - Paul Saurette — THE MARK
The minority Conservative government is interfering with Statistics Canada. The article suggests it’s one of many small moves to dismantle the tools we use to identify and address structural inequalities in Canadian society....
“I want to take this opportunity to comment on a technical statistical issue...”
– Media advisory: 2011 Census
“In Canada, that would mean principally that the government would have to clean...”
– A human right Canada rejects: Access to clean water - thestar.com
Unsolicited Analysis: Tax Policy →
unsolicitedanalysis:
Libertyfighter took issue with my Tax Policy comments last night. I’m not sure why he didn’t simply reblog me, but someone was kind enough to shoot me the link.
libertyfighter:
Taxes are net benefits to substantially all Americans. You pay taxes, but unless your household income is significantly above average in all likelihood you are a net beneficiary of taxes. ...
“There is a small minority in some communities who use violence against women as...”
– Women’s minister warns against ‘honour killings’ - The Globe and Mail
Subtlety being Rona’s defining characteristic. “There is a small minority…” she said, in the minority health clinic.
“My mom is not a master of subtlety. So when she said, five different times, that...”
– How I Learned to Relax at a Spa — With My Mom - TIME
“Commodified fantasy takes no risks: it invents nothing, but imitates and...”
– Ursula K. LeGuin (via thebronzemedal)
June 2010
6 posts
“When we’re poor, Karelis argues, our economic worldview is shaped by...”
– The sting of poverty - The Boston Globe
“Can it be believed that the democracy which has overthrown the feudal system and...”
– de Toqueville, Democracy in America
“Despite its proletarian roots, New Labour, as London Mayor Boris Johnson acidly...”
– The Future Of America’s Working Class | Newgeography.com
“In other words, in the battle between two sets of property rights - those of the...”
– Michael Geist - The Canadian Copyright Bill: Flawed But Fixable
This is why people don’t vote.
May 2010
7 posts
“The repression of women, the persecution complexes, the lack of democracy, the...”
– Book Review - Nomad - By Ayaan Hirsi Ali - NYTimes.com
Her whole point is that Islam is built on sexual inequality, and so it is incompatible with western democracies. You say, yes all these terrible things happen, but there is some good there too. Of course she would agree, but again,...
“Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society. It ever has...”
– Alexander Hamilton (via azspot)
“‘What happiness is every man knows, because what pleasure is, every man knows, and what pain is, every man knows. But what justice is — this is what on every occasion is the subject-matter of dispute.’”
- J Bentham (laying the...
“Do I think our civilisation is superior? Yes, I do. Do I think it’s worth...”
– Christopher Hitchens, The Guardian, Saturday 22 May 2010.
I read the article very carefully just to make sure that the racist rant offered up by ‘The Hitch’ was not selected out of context and hence unrepresentative of his overall point (if there was one). Alas, the little prick did mean it every...
“Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice. It is...”
– Nelson Mandela (via squashed)
“So intense was the caucus backlash last July against a publicity photo of...”
– Grants and drag queens don’t mix
I really dislike our conservative government.
“The tragedy of the tale is not that they can never go back. The real affliction...”
– Here On The Island - by Lewis Napper - A Scholarly Critique of the Style, Symbolism and Sociopolitical Relevance of Gilligan’s Island
So badass. Thanks boingboing.
“A senior Ignatieff official sees nothing but doom and gloom: “a shameless...”
– One year in, Ignatieff has yet to stuff Liberal war chest - The Globe and Mail
April 2010
21 posts
“The existence of this draconian, Orwellian, unprecedented prerequisite to clear...”
– Bureaucrats chafing under ‘unprecedented’ PMO/PCO communications control | The Hill Times - Canada’s Politics and Government Newsweekly
“But the collective fortunes of the top 1,000 on the list have risen by 30% in...”
– BBC News - Super-rich become wealthier again, Sunday Times says
Everything’s fine. Keep calm, you miserable proles.
“Esperanto is the language of spies.”
– Stalin (via aspiringesperantist) (via simonf)