

RIP — 2019 Edition
#41
Posted 13 May 2019 - 08:47 AM
"That's the problem with being implacable foes - no one has any incentive to treat you as anything more than an obstacle to be overcome."
"The 'Road to Serfdom' is really all right turns." --Progressive Whisperer
""The GOP ... where every accusation is also a confession." --Progressive Whisperer
#42
Posted 13 May 2019 - 09:43 AM
"That's the problem with being implacable foes - no one has any incentive to treat you as anything more than an obstacle to be overcome."
"The 'Road to Serfdom' is really all right turns." --Progressive Whisperer
""The GOP ... where every accusation is also a confession." --Progressive Whisperer
#43
Posted 13 May 2019 - 02:16 PM
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— Fran Lebowitz
“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It's simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.”
— Carl Sagan
Pray for Trump: Psalm 109:8
"Science is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking. I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time - when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers arc in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness.”
— Carl Sagan
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
1995
“As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”
— H.L. Mencken
On Politics: A Carnival of Buncombe
“The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.”
— Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Second inaugural address January, 1937
#44
Posted 13 May 2019 - 02:47 PM
California Secession - Let my people go!
#45
Posted 13 May 2019 - 05:59 PM
#46
Posted 13 May 2019 - 07:03 PM
golden_valley, on 13 May 2019 - 05:59 PM, said:
Then there is the Pink Martini version. It was used for the pilot of "Dead Like Me" and is creepy. A sort of fusion with the Mephisto Waltz.
— Fran Lebowitz
“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It's simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.”
— Carl Sagan
Pray for Trump: Psalm 109:8
"Science is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking. I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time - when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers arc in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness.”
— Carl Sagan
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
1995
“As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”
— H.L. Mencken
On Politics: A Carnival of Buncombe
“The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.”
— Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Second inaugural address January, 1937
#47
Posted 13 May 2019 - 07:35 PM
golden_valley, on 13 May 2019 - 05:59 PM, said:
Yeah, that. For years after my father died I couldn't watch anything with James Garner because they looked disturbingly alike.
— Nate Silver
"Robots aren't the problem. Capitalism is." -- Last words of Stephen Hawking.
These days, "libertarian" is just a euphemism for a Nazi who's afraid to commit.
"If you're not outraged, you're not paying attention." -- Heather Heyer
"I'd rather have my child, but by golly, if I gotta give her up, we're gonna make it count." -- Her mother
"Your purpose, then, plainly stated, is that you will destroy the Government, unless you be allowed to construe and enforce the Constitution as you please, on all points in dispute between you and us. You will rule or ruin in all events." -- some RINO
#48
Posted 14 May 2019 - 03:05 PM
"That's the problem with being implacable foes - no one has any incentive to treat you as anything more than an obstacle to be overcome."
"The 'Road to Serfdom' is really all right turns." --Progressive Whisperer
""The GOP ... where every accusation is also a confession." --Progressive Whisperer
#49
#50
Posted 16 May 2019 - 08:45 PM
#51
Posted 16 May 2019 - 08:54 PM
https://www.dwell.co...e-love-193ed58f
California Secession - Let my people go!
#52
Posted 16 May 2019 - 09:27 PM
Rue Bella, on 16 May 2019 - 08:54 PM, said:
https://www.dwell.co...e-love-193ed58f
This would be a better list if they had the captions correctly matched to the pictures! The Art Museum at Cornell is identified as the Smithsonian, and it looks like (but not 100% sure) that there are other mix-ups as well.
#53
Posted 17 May 2019 - 10:35 AM
"That's the problem with being implacable foes - no one has any incentive to treat you as anything more than an obstacle to be overcome."
"The 'Road to Serfdom' is really all right turns." --Progressive Whisperer
""The GOP ... where every accusation is also a confession." --Progressive Whisperer
#54
Posted 17 May 2019 - 02:41 PM

https://www.cbsnews....ract-infection/
"Grumpy Cat, viral meme sensation, has died at age 7"
7 years... not very old for a cat.
California Secession - Let my people go!
#55
Posted 17 May 2019 - 05:00 PM
#56
Posted 30 May 2019 - 01:42 PM
"That's the problem with being implacable foes - no one has any incentive to treat you as anything more than an obstacle to be overcome."
"The 'Road to Serfdom' is really all right turns." --Progressive Whisperer
""The GOP ... where every accusation is also a confession." --Progressive Whisperer
#57
Posted 01 June 2019 - 06:19 AM
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#58
Posted 01 June 2019 - 07:57 AM
Nice guy, met him once at a bookstore in DC. Pretty young, still, not a bad way to go. In town on a book tour, taking a walk in Chevy Chase, fell over dead.
https://www.npr.org/...iWBXFgsAspgDZf8
#59
Posted 06 June 2019 - 09:13 PM
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#60
Posted 17 June 2019 - 02:51 PM
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Vanderbilt's son, Anderson Cooper, announced her death Monday, airing an obituary for her on CNN. Vanderbilt had cancer, he said.
(About fame) Living for likes, shares and follows is a form of validation. The question is whether it is also the source of our self esteem. If it is, we’re screwed. And, culturally, it seems as if it’s become more and more our shared value. ... Meringue is no longer a sweet and pretty topping but the body itself. ~Charles Perez
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." --Thomas Jefferson to Charles Yancey, 1816. ME 14:384, via LFC, 12/1/2016
Competent people go in one of a few directions. But incompetence is infinite. ~David Brooks, NY Times
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