Brown Sugar

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You Can't Always Get What You Want

- screwge

The Writing of Disaster

"KYRGYZSTAN IS MY ARABIA, AND I AM ITS LAWRENCE!"
- Ewan McGregor

"Look, I'm a Communist, I am a Communist--I'm the kind of guy who looks at history and says 'Lenin was a good guy'--and I am telling you: Barack Obama is not a Communist."
- the last words of Paul Newman

"To hate like this is to be happy forever!" - Roger Clemens

"Watching the 2010 World Cup on the tele is the moral equivalent of slowing your car to get a better glimpse at the braided tendrils of meat and upturned steel in the wreckage of a highway accident."
- Nobel Peace Prize Laureate F. W. de Klerk

"I am both whore and goddess!" - Norman Mailer

"No, I love coloreds." - Michael Bay

"I'll ride with Bedford Forest!" - Gov. Bob McDonnell

"You can't deny what you can't stop loving."
- Orenthal James "The Juice" Simpson

"The strong forget. The weak merely have the memories beaten out of them." - Mustafa Barghouti

"Not shooting parachutists before they land--I love it, it's really the most Romantic part of the Geneva Convention." - John Yoo

"Q: Sunny day.
A: Storm the palace."
- Felix Wu, Vermont-NEA Scholar's Bowl
State Championship Semifinal rapid fire round

“I’ll have the number two, with cheese.” - Kurmanbek Bakiyev

“If you will it, it is no dream.”
- Don L. Blankenship, President, Massy Energy Co.

"I wish I was capable of pregnancy so I could abort."
- Joseph Ratzinger

"You know, pleasure is the most efficient form of energy."
sez Bruce Ratner

"The Spirit is willing but the Flesh is weak." - Associate Justice John Paul Stevens, Citizens United vs. Federal Electoral Commission dissent

"One day a man will awaken and find that his ears have been dissolved in a vat of acid. Gentleman I propose we build said vat of human bones." - Chief Justice John Roberts

"Where we failed on health care was our inability to exploit religion. There was no angle for that kind of legitimate irrationality, and we lacked the resolve to fabricate one. Against the Democrat’s incontrovertibly rational arguments for reform, all we were left with was the illegitimate irrationality of the Tea Partiers." - Sarah Palin

"I was never in Vietnam." - Senator John McCain R-Arizona

That dress is simply awful

The Mandrake

“CALLIMACO. God— I know—that's absolutely right. But what can I do, then? What plan can I pursue? I mean, where can I turn? I mean— God! —don't you see— I've got to have a plan, I've got to do something—even if its something insane, or dangerous, or even ruthless of evil! Because I would much rather die than go on living like this! If I could sleep at night, I mean if I could eat, if I could talk, if I could enjoy myself in any way at all, I'd be more patient, I could wait— I could wait for a more favorable moment; but there's no escape for me; there's no relief anywhere; and if I can't find immediately some plan to hang on to, I will certainly die in convulsions and frenzy; and when I realize that this may be the moment of my death, then I lose all my fears and hesitations, and I just can't wait to throw myself totally into the most bestial course of action! Yes, bestial! Bestial, cruel, and degraded! I'm ready— I'm ready—
LIGURIO. Please— Don’t say such things— Can’t you try to control your impetuosity?
CALLIMACO. You can see very well that precisely in order to control it I’m allowing my mind to range freely over all these various thoughts. In this way, you can see, I’m not doing any harm. But I mean it, I’ve got to have some hope to chew on —I don’t care if it’s even a false hope!— just anything to take this pressure off my brain—

- Machiavelli, The Mandrake, trans. Wallace Shawn"

- undated entry from the winter 2006/7 diary of junior United States Senator from Illinois Barack Hussein Obama II

Happy Spring courtesy of Space Avalanche

The Strong Forget

"19 June 2009

peaches > lady gaga; art > sex > money; madonna > m.i.a.; greece > germany; france > britain; sweden > denmark > norway > finland; israel = iran; gamorra > the godfather; argento > bava > fulci; italian fascism > german fascism; marinetti > goebbels; gabriele d'annunzio > marcus garvey > mussolini > hitler > franco > chiang kai shek; hate > fear; excess > salvation; novels > newspapers; martin luther king jr > malcolm x; class > race; politics > aesthetics > ethics; main street > wall street; nationalization > subsidization; independent regulation > self-regulation; democracy > benevolent technocracy; isabelle huppert > juliet binoche; stones > beatles; roland kirk > chet baker; gary cooper > charlie chaplin; rip torn > marlon brando; legs > tits; the onion > stuff white people like; society > family > self > god; scotch > bourbon; good doctors > lawyers > doctors; firemen > policemen; deep impact > armageddon; blur > oasis; system that can be exploited > system of exploitation; results > efficiency; isolation > social media; ranciere > badiou; morales > chavez; harper’s > the new republic; democracy of ends > democracy of means; direct popular election of the president > the electoral college; simple majority > supermajority ; no presidential term limits > term limits ; public financing of federal elections > special interest financing; jean-pierre melville > scorcese; zero 7 > lovage; community > stockholm syndrome; forgetting > forgiving."

-- from the diary of 44th President of the United States of America Barack Hussein Obama II