You know, it would really be nice if the ramblings of crazy people didn’t in anyway resemble how we actually talk to each other on TV.

You know, it would really be nice if the ramblings of crazy people didn\’t in anyway resemble how we actually talk to each other on TV.
Stewart: “[I]t Would Really Be Nice If The Ramblings Of Crazy People Didn\’t…Resemble” Pundits On Cable | Media Matters for America

[T]he Framers understood that the prospect of a nation ruled for centuries by dead prophets would be the very opposite of freedom.

[T]he Framers understood that the prospect of a nation ruled for centuries by dead prophets would be the very opposite of freedom.
How the Tea Party\’s fetish for the Constitution as written may get it in trouble. – By Dahlia Lithwick – Slate Magazine

An unforeseen plot twist arose when, in a final attempt to jar my family into cooperation, I cast the baby Jesus to the ground and began to repeatedly bludgeon him with my cane.

An unforeseen plot twist arose when, in a final attempt to jar my family into cooperation, I cast the baby Jesus to the ground and began to repeatedly bludgeon him with my cane.
Hyperbole and a Half: The Year Kenny Loggins Ruined Christmas

That’s the mindset of the U.S. Government: everything it does of any significance can and should be shielded from public view; anyone who shines light on what it does is an Enemy who must be destroyed; but nothing you do should be beyond its monitoring and storing eyes.

That\’s the mindset of the U.S. Government: everything it does of any significance can and should be shielded from public view; anyone who shines light on what it does is an Enemy who must be destroyed; but nothing you do should be beyond its monitoring and storing eyes.
The Government\’s one-way mirror – Glenn Greenwald – Salon.com

Once you overload the user, you train them not to pay attention. More clutter isn’t free. In fact, more clutter is a permanent shift, a desensitization to all the information, not just the last bit.

Once you overload the user, you train them not to pay attention. More clutter isn\’t free. In fact, more clutter is a permanent shift, a desensitization to all the information, not just the last bit.
Seth\’s Blog: The inevitable decline due to clutter

Some may say they live for the family, others to have fun, still others, to make money, but in reality nobody knows what he is living for; he has no goal, except the wish to escape insecurity and aloneness.

Some may say they live for the family, others to have fun, still others, to make money, but in reality nobody knows what he is living for; he has no goal, except the wish to escape insecurity and aloneness.
Erich Fromm

The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.

The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.
Michelangelo