February 2012
44 posts
“Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of a job: it’s always you versus a blank...”
– Neil Gaiman: On Writing (via fortuneandglory)
5 tags
“The GOP’s drift toward loopyness started in 1993 when Bill Clinton became the...”
– Robert Reich, As Santorum and Romney Battle for the Loony Right, the Rest of Us Should Not Gloat (via sickeninglyliberal)
5 tags
“The GOP’s drift toward loopyness started in 1993 when Bill Clinton became...”
– Robert Reich, As Santorum and Romney Battle for the Loony Right, the Rest of Us Should Not Gloat
“CO2 is a pollutant? Tell that to the plants.”
– Rick Santorum, this weekend in Davison, Michigan.
Yet another example of willfully ignorant being brought to it’s absolute apex.
We’re currently pumping about 90 million tons of carbon emissions into the air every day. This creates the conditions that lead to global warming, and the seriousness...
4 tags
“A party of birthers, creationists, theocrats, climate-change deniers, nativists,...”
– Robert Reich, As Santorum and Romney Battle for the Loony Right, the Rest of Us Should Not Gloat
“Sex is all the enchantment required. Do men find women so enchanting once the...”
– Philip Roth, The Dying Animal (via fortuneandglory)
1 tag
“A morning of awkwardness is far better than a night of loneliness.”
– Hank Moody, Californication (via fortuneandglory)
2 tags
6 tags
1 tag
Santorum: Democratic Party An Orgy Of Sex And... →
spytap:
From “viable” Presidential candidate Rick Santorum. Man, this guy is the gift that keeps on giving. Also in the same article, Santorum explains how it’s impossible to be a liberal and a Christian. A comic genius, he is.
3 tags
“When you’re slapped, you’ll take it and like it.”
– Humphrey Bogary as Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon (via fortuneandglory)
2 tags
1 tag
“It’s sort of a touching response to a $1.2 trillion deficit, isn’t it? That...”
– Warren Buffett mocks Gov. Christie’s ‘write a check and shut up’ remark (The Hill)
3 tags
1 tag
“I can’t stand it to think my life is going so fast and I’m not really living it.”
– The Sun Also Rises (via artificialisland)
4 tags
“That’s the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If...”
– Charles Bukowski, Women (via fortuneandglory)
2 tags
“Yes, the government can help, but the idea that the federal government should be...”
– Rick Santorum, calling for the abolition of public schools (via maxistentialist)
6 tags
“It was too big for him, that was the truth. It had never really progressed, it...”
– George Orwell, Keep the Aspidistra Flying
Anyone who has poured their soul and years of their time into writing a novel can probably relate to Orwell’s idealistic Gordon Comstock.
(via fortuneandglory)
6 tags
1 tag
1 tag
“As far as I’m concerned, states have no rights. Only people have...”
– George Romney, campaigning in North Carolina in 1967 (via ilyagerner)
5 tags
“[Jack would] tell Howard what he was going to do once he got some money...”
– Matt Bondurant, The Wettest County in the World (via fortuneandglory)
3 tags
2 tags
14 tags
5 tags
“Well-educated people also possess an enlarged capacity for independent thought....”
– My former English professor and drinking friend brilliantly tears apart Governor Corbett’s proposed slashes to higher education in Pennsylvania’s latest budget. (via fortuneandglory)
5 tags
Involving families in the education of their...
fortuneandglory:
By the time students have reached high school – particularly their crucial sophomore and junior years – they are generally familiar with the routines of active learning and assessment and they have become accustomed to and integrated into the school’s culture and community. As these students continue to near the crossroad in their life that is high school graduation, it is...
4 tags
5 tags
“It amazed Forrest that so many men seemed to wake up in the morning needing some...”
– Matt Bondurant, The Wettest County in the World (via fortuneandglory)
5 tags
7 tags
Gov. Tom Corbett does not care about you... unless...
fortuneandglory:
Tom Corbett, governor of Pennsylvania, announced today that he will once again be pushing forward his agenda aimed at hindering the lower and middle class citizens of his state.
It is class warfare.
That’s not an extreme statement used by the left to ignite fear as dutiful and blindly loyal Republicans claim. Corbett’s “refusal” to raise taxes is bullshit.
Because cutting...
3 tags
fortuneandglory:
When did The Huffington Post become such a joke? Was it before or after AOL acquired it? When the site first came around, I enjoyed the hell out of it. Now, their only concerns seem to be attention-grabbing headlines (that are often misleading), celebrity nip slips, and getting readers to click as often as possible on their site so they can generate more ad revenue.
2 tags
“The percent of Americans in poverty is its highest in two decades, and more of...”
– Robert Reich in “The Downward Mobility of the American Middle Class, and Why Mitt Romney Doesn’t Know” (via tartantambourine)
7 tags
2 tags
Congressman Hurt To Discover Lobbyist Not Really... →
fortuneandglory:
WASHINGTON - According to Capitol Hill sources, Rep. Bobby Schilling (R-IL) came to the painful realization this week that agribusiness lobbyist Stephen Fischer, who had been kind and generous toward him for months and had often met up with him for drinks after work, was not, in fact, his friend.
“Steve used to call all the time to catch up and ask about my family and chat...
7 tags
6 tags
2 tags
8 tags
The Book of Tumblr Returns: Click here to download... →
fortuneandglory:
theonlybook:
It may have seemed like a long hiatus (because it was), but this project is far from complete. Read the first 30 pages of Tumblr’s very first user-created novel - written by ten different Tumblr users, who each had no idea where the others would be taking the story - by clicking on the link above. Right here is also a story overview of each character in the story...
January 2012
85 posts
2 tags
6 tags
“I don’t mind a reasonable amount of trouble.”
– Sam Spade (Humphrey Bogart) in The Maltese Falcon (via fortuneandglory)
4 tags
3 tags
5 tags
