“We should be nurturing corporate spectacle, like good Americans.”
“How many guinea pigs does it take to mow your lawn?”
“Would you ever ask a man that question?”
“The financial success of Young’s strategy to exploit female insecurity was not lost on competitors.”
“We wanted to test this, how easy is it to spread disinformation?” (via Story Bones)
“This movie — about an invasion of the American homeland — may be the most brutally subversive critique of US foreign policy since Apocalypse Now.”
“The foundation is holding a Reinvent the Toilet Fair to demonstrate new designs, and to prepare, they’ve put in a 50-gallon order with a company called Maximum Performance, which has been making pseudopoo out of soybeans and rice since 2003.”
“She was accused of three counts of forgery, in part because her driver’s license had her real name on it, which the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office thought was bogus.”
“Historically, and into the present, whiteness is the stuff of terror, fear, and death for a great many people around the world.”
“The families of other terrorists are almost never interviewed.”
“Our results show that the average temperature of the earth’s land has risen by two and a half degrees Fahrenheit over the past 250 years, including an increase of one and a half degrees over the most recent 50 years. Moreover, it appears likely that essentially all of this increase results from the human emission of greenhouse gases.”
“That is a desperately old melancholy to be entrusted to the voices of third-graders, brimming with hope and with no pimples.”
“It impacts negatively on people’s ability to get jobs, to find housing, to have social relationships. … It’s as big a barrier to recovery probably as the symptoms themselves.”
“How to Talk to People Who Are in Wheelchairs”
“If he’s one-fifth as good as Wayne, you’re getting $10 worth of Wayne Newton for nine dollars.”
“Go ahead and check your electric bill right about now, just in case some extra streetlight cash is hiding in there.”
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