“Dear governments, if you don’t want your filth exposed, then stop acting like pigs. Simple.”
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Wikileaks, in response to government protests of additional releases of “secret” documents in August, 2011.
August 2011
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“License plates should display the driver’s cell phone number. That way, you can call them and tell them what an asshole they are in a civilized manner instead of shouting it out the window.”
—Big Shot Bob in Texas: 2006-08-20
“With few exceptions, the greater the power of women, the greater the country’s economic success. Aid agencies have started to recognize this relationship and have pushed to institute political quotas in about 100 countries, essentially forcing women into power in an effort to improve those countries’ fortunes. In some war-torn states, women are stepping in as a sort of maternal rescue team. Liberia’s president, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, portrayed her country as a sick child in need of her care during her campaign five years ago. Postgenocide Rwanda elected to heal itself by becoming the first country with a majority of women in parliament… . Last year, Iceland elected Prime Minister Johanna Sigurdardottir, the world’s first openly lesbian head of state, who campaigned explicitly against the male elite she claimed had destroyed the nation’s banking system, and who vowed to end the ‘age of testosterone.’”
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The End of Men - by Hanna Rosin
The Atlantic magazine, July, 2010
“US pollsters have a perennial chestnut: Do you think the country is heading in the right direction? Much of the time we say no, but that’s because we’re a nation of amnesiac fabulists. We misremember even our recent past. I grew up in Cold War America, stunted by fear, racism and conformity. Now we have a black president, presiding over a nation that enjoys more freedoms and rights than at any time in its history. I need not enumerate our problems – they’re there for all to see, and I get paid for pointing them out – but I’m still an optimist. Most satirists are. When you slip into cynicism, you become part of the problem.”
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Doonesbury writer Garry Trudeau
Still scrawling after all these years - The Irish Times - Wed, Jun 15, 2011
“There was a researcher not long ago who wanted to do a study comparing men who looked at porn to men who never looked at porn. He was unable to come to any conclusions because he couldn’t find any men who had never looked at porn.”
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By Emily Yoffe - Slate Magazine
May 16, 2011
“Today, exactly the same number of Americans—2.3 million—reside in prison as in public housing. And what public housing remains has become ever more prison-like, with random police sweeps and, in a growing number of cities, proposed drug tests for residents. The safety net, or what remains of it, has been transformed into a dragnet.”
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Barbara Ehrenreich, August 2011
