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