(Trump is a) bona fide gangster, neo-fascist Pied Piper leading the country for a second civil war.
đź’¬ Cornell West
“Just when you think tastelessness has reached its nadir, along comes a punk rock group called ‘The Dead Kennedys’, which will play at Mabuhay Gardens on Nov. 22, the 15th anniversary of John F. Kennedy’s assassination.”
đź’¬ Herb Caen
“The assassinations were in much more poor taste than our band. We actually respect the Kennedy family. . . . When JFK was assassinated, when Martin Luther King was assassinated, when RFK was assassinated, the American Dream was assassinated. Our name is actually homage to the American Dream.”
đź’¬ Raymond John (East Bay Ray) Pepperell (Dead Kennedies)
Somehow Britain now has a refugee policy so bonkers that even the Rwandans are worried it might be a bit harsh. And this is a country that recently shot 12 refugees dead.Â
đź’¬ Robert Hutton
I’m still puzzled why NPR and CNN and Harvard and other legacy institutions haven’t set up on Substack. But they clearly have zero interest in doing so—even if they could make money and expand their audience. Yet these same institutions launched on Threads the very first day. They couldn’t sign up as soldiers for Mark Zuckerberg’s new empire fast enough.
đź’¬ Ted Goia
Defendant’s four-year service as Commander in Chief did not bestow on him the divine right of kings to evade the criminal accountability that governs his fellow citizens.
đź’¬ Judge Chutkan
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.
đź’¬ Upton Sinclair
We can do it quick, fast and safe, but it doesn’t necessarily taste great.
đź’¬ Chris Young
Chris is McDonald’s senior director of global menu strategy.
Three thoughts
Global Menu Strategy is a job! Who knew?
Isn’t ‘taste’ his job? .. So is he new in and shaking it up .. or is it his fault?
I wonder what his boss thinks of that quote?
We are here on Earth to help others. What on earth the others are here for I do not know.
đź’¬ W. H. Auden
đź’¬ via John Naughton
Somewhere else on the interwebs, my friend Perry Offer wrote …
There is no power for those who want it, in truth.
đź’¬ Perry Offer
… which I had been meaning to capture in here for posterity … and then I stumbled on this.
Truth Requires Power — Truth in itself is no power at all, in spite of all that flattering rationalists are in the habit of saying to the contrary. Truth must either attract power to its side, or else side with power, for otherwise it will perish again and again. This has already been sufficiently demonstrated, and more than sufficiently!
đź’¬ Friedrich Nietzsche