February 2012
“You can only hold a smile for so long, after that it’s just teeth.”
– Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
(via 27-0)
“Look at yourselves. Some of you teenagers, students. How do you think I feel and...”
– Malcolm X (via warriorsrise)
“It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.”
– Churchill (via davesingh)
“There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one...”
– Victor Hugo (via coloredmondays)
“I toughed it out hoping that it would get better and it finally did…it ended.”
– The Best of the Worst Netflix Reviews of Best Picture Nominees (via nevver)
“You don’t expect your family to understand what you’re doing. You just hope...”
– Act of Valor (via metal-maniac-liz)
“The scheme is simple: The Pentagon allows studios to use military hardware and...”
– David Sirota, Forgetting the Past, One Military Movie at a Time
(via guerrillanetwork)
“True fortitude is not to fear death; for death is nothing more than a certain...”
– Plotinus | An Essay on the Beautiful (via blogut)
What Oligarchy Means: Small Groups of... →
Forget the five people you meet in heaven, here are the five people running the US election system these days.
We know how the super PACs have come to dominate the presidential campaign, but a closer look at financial-disclosure numbers shows how just a tiny handful of billionaires are dominating those super PACs. An analysis of January’s campaign-disclosure filings reveals that 25 percent...
“You know what my concern is about Congress? I checked these numbers: 57% of...”
– Neil DeGrasse Tyson (via yo-soy-yossarian)
“All things come into being by conflict of opposites, and the sum of things flows...”
– Diogenes of Sinope (via guerrillanetwork)
“I’m not fascinated by people who smile all the time. What I find interesting is...”
– Unknown (via perfectlylogicalparadox)
existential french horn depression: How Government... →
laliberty:
Just a few quick examples, as to elaborate on this question:
Minimum wage laws ostensibly exist to offer poorer workers better pay, but tend to leave the lower-skilled workers unemployed instead. 1
Tariffs and tough anti-immigration laws purportedly protect American…
