Gee whiz!

Apocalypse Now sure was cool!

Six Monsters in Search of a Destroyer

"I will avenge the sans-culottes!" - George Soros

"Mr. Céline, how do you feel about the fact that your three anti-semitic novels haven't been translated into English?"
"Horrible!"

"O Rambo, what is the guiding wisdom of our days?"
"Everything is permissible!"

"Sr. Bolaño, why are you crying?"
"I haven't drunk one of these since '73."

"What about the drugs, Anita?"
"That's just how it went down, Bryant!"
-Anita O'day, Today Show, 1991

"Tanigaki sang like a bird!" - Yukio Hatoyama, covered in blood

"Katherine Heigl: is that what young women want to be today? Is that what men want? I don't get it." - Ruth Joan Bader Ginsburg

"How beautifully the men grieve in this country, weeping openly and without shame!" - Wen Jiabao

"I will fight the panther in the Octagon!" - Barack Obama

"If our form of government carries with it a certain inequality of fortune, this is justifiable in order that as a rule the administration of public affairs may be entrusted to those who are most able to give them their whole time, but not, as some maintain, in order that the rich may always be put first. On the contrary, it is of importance that an opposite choice should occasionally teach the people that the deserts of men offer claims to pre-eminence more important than those of riches." - Arisman Pongruanrong

"I applaud Arisman's leadership of the People, but I have always had a certain distaste for his art. Why, in his music videos, all these women being yanked about by the elbow? So many of his songs are about wanting to save his love, but who is he to be their savior? There is something paternalistic in his sense of Romance, pathos subtended by inequality. I would never treat my Lydia like that."
- Thaksin Shinawatra

"You don't know what it costs to look this cheap." - Warren Buffet

The Bourgeois Blues

Daddy was a doctor
And Mamma, she was one too
Pay ‘em rent for your body
Don’t know what you gonna do

As you going to the country
Yes you going to the country
You is going to the country
Right down Poverty Road

Move in from out of town
And buy up all the land
Push them little brown people
Out to the desert sands

They is going to the country
Yes they going to the country
Going to the country
Right down Poverty Road

Nigger in the White House
Black as a dollar bill
Can’t give the people no peace
Until I had my fill

They is going to the country
Yes they going to the country
Going to the country
Right down Poverty Road
(A man can’t get enough peace)

Man, I am just myself
My skin ain’t got no color
So why’s it so hard for me
To be every man’s brother?

As they going to the country
Yes they is going to the country
Going to the country
Right down Poverty Mile

Gandaddy was a banker
Said “Boy I’ll give it all to you”
Ain’t got no worldly problems
So I sing this blues for you

Cause you is going to the country
You is going to the country
You going to the country
Right down Poverty Road

New Mana

Truly the New York Times is our Epcot Center.

Analects on Harmonious Society

"I'd rape you just to establish my dominance, if only you weren't so fucking ugly."
- US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Joan Bader Ginsburg

"I am not a man of blood; and God is my witness that in all my wars I have never been the aggressor, and that my enemies have always been the authors of their own calamity." - Ken Salazar

"James Brown is the only proper noun." - James Brown

"Although many single mothers do an absolutely wonderful job in raising their children, common sense and most academic findings suggest that having a father present during the raising of children generally has a positive effect on the development of non-cognitive traits of children. These include a general respect for authority and reduced rebelliousness in school, the avoidance of gangs and other criminal activities, and, most importantly, their potential to become wealthy." - Gary Becker

"White masculinity, as I understand it, can be summed up in three films: Get Carter, Five Easy Pieces, and Le cercle rouge.
- James Baldwin

"Eldridge Cleaver, what a hick and a coward." - Chelsea Clinton

"The day everything changed for me is when I realized that when I flushed the toilet all that stuff went somewhere." - Paul Krugman

"That's the essence of Friedman, isn't it?: a mall in Hawaii."
- Michael Polanyi

"We need nationalist distraction!" - Jackie Chan

"Lawyerin sure can be evil!" - Jack Warden

"Girls can't do math." - Lawrence Summers

"Philip K Dick was right, we're all fucked." - Steve Jobs

"The lawless murder of Afrikaaner farmers, which has so alarmingly increased in the past five years, goes against everything I suffered and fought for as president of this Republic, as leader of the anti-apartheid movement, as a prisoner in jail for four decades, and, yes, even as a freedom fighter who used terrorist tactics to bring an end to inequality. But Eugène Terre'Blanche? You want me to feel sorry for him?" - Nelson Mandela

"Floods wash away villages in myanmar
on venice's grand canal in a kayak
31 places to go this summer: a list of great summer
vacations that don't require euros. cult of cluster
bombing a 24 karat olympic machine--
'I'm not the guy you kill, i'm the one you buy'"
- from Thomas Friedman's diary of daily poetry

"I'll never be a real man until I've read all of Chandler, Hammett, and Cain." - from the prison diaries of Roberto Bolaño

"I mean what would it come to? If a person has no love for himself, no respect for himself, no love of his friends, family, work, something... how can he ask for love in return? I mean, why should he ask for it?"
- from the diary of Milton Friedman

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2

To achieve intended effect, select a random part of video #2, and watch all three simultaneously. Replay as needed.

The reason Five Easy Pieces remains relevant

The following is not fabricated:

"Marco Cicala, a Leftist Italian journalist, told me about his recent weird experience: when, in an article, he once used the word "capitalism," the editor asked him if the use of this term is really necessary - could he not replace it by a synonymous one, like "economy"? What better proof of the total triumph of capitalism than the virtual disappearance of the very term in the last 2 or 3 decades? No one, with the exception of a few allegedly archaic Marxists, refers to capitalism any longer. The term was simply struck from the vocabulary of politicians, trade unionists, writers and journalists - even of social scientists."