April 2011
“Feel hate and notice how the only thing happening was that you weren’t getting...”
– Byron Katie
“Some people are overweight, underweight, drop-dead gorgeous, ugly as sin, rich,...”
– Lessons in Badassery from Batman | Nerd Fitness (via nathanielstuart)
“Rates of social mobility in the United States are now lower than in continental...”
– Fairness as meritocracy: What is fair? | The Economist
“…What we already know: that Americans are unusual in their commitment to...”
– Fairness as meritocracy: What is fair? | The Economist
“The average man does not want to be free. He simply wants to be safe.”
– H.L. Mencken (Via)
“What is there to say anymore about Donald Trump? That he is an irrepressible...”
– News Desk: Trump, Birtherism, and Race-Baiting : The New Yorker
“…to do what Trump has done (and he is only the latest and loudest and most...”
– David Remnick on Trump, Birtherism, and Race-Baiting (via newyorker)
“It is the one enduring law of entertainment: Porn always finds a way.”
– 5 Trends You Think Are Ruining Movies (Are Older Than Film) | Cracked.com
“The world to me was a secret, which I desired to discover; to her it was a...”
– Frankenstein, Mary Shelley (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
“Back when humans were still all living in huts made from mud and bark, the...”
– The 7 Most Impressive Examples of Animal Architecture | Cracked.com
“Research shows that people who profess a belief in such a deity judge moral...”
– Science and faiths: How to build a religion | The Economist
Two biographies of Ayn Rand. →
Ayn Rand is one of America’s great mysteries. She was an amphetamine-addicted author of sub-Dan Brown potboilers, who in her spare time wrote lavish torrents of praise for serial killers and the Bernie Madoff-style embezzlers of her day. She opposed democracy on the grounds that “the masses”—her readers—were “lice” and “parasites” who scarcely deserved to live. Yet she remains one of the most...
