mardod

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• Website: mardod.com
• Location Tacoma, WA
• Politics Liberal-progressive

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• Favorite Blogs Oliver Willis, Consumerist, Daily Kos, AMERICAblog, Hullabaloo, Ain't It Cool News, Huffington Post, Horses Ass, Open Left, Paul Krugman, Democratic Strategist, Mashable, Techcrunch
• Favorite Books The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Misquoting Jesus, The Assault on Reason, The End of America
• Favorite Quotes Politics is not a battle for the middle. It is a battle for defining the terms of the political debate. It is a battle to be able to say what is the middle. -Unknown The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends. - Friedrich Nietzsche A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election. - Bill Vaughan Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative. - Kurt Vonnegut We are continually faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems. - John W. Gardner Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar. - Edward R. Murrow Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles. - George Jean Nathan Wine is poetry bottled. -seen on a sign outside a wine bar in Seattle I get up every morning determined to both change the world and have one hell of a good time. Sometimes this makes planning my day difficult. - EB White The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. - Hannah Arendt The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. - Walter Bagehot Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke. - Lynda Barry Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see. - Arthur Schopenhauer People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use. - Soren Kierkegaard The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money. - Mark Twain Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on, or by imbeciles who really mean it. -Mark Twain The important thing is not to stop questioning. - Albert Einstein I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. - Thomas A. Edison

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I'm an armchair pundit and blog lurker who is new to the actual working world of politics, but finding it utterly fascinating.