TagsTagsWe did everything just the way grownups would have. Why didn't it work? -- Piggy, "Lord of the Flies"
There's always free cheddar in a mousetrap, baby It's a deal, it's a deal -- Tom Waits, "God's Away On Business"
Here's a no-frills open thread, with a few links to articles worth reading. Me Me Me Me Me: CNN Provides a Platform for a Vile Voice of the Tea Party Retracting 'Mr. Daisey and the Apple Factory' | This American Life The Bin Laden Plot to Kill President Obama Invisible Children Co-Founder Detained: SDPD ...
An era can be said to end when its basic illusions are exhausted. -- Arthur Miller
Joe Seer / Shutterstock Here's an open thread for dishing about the Oscars, or whatever else you feel like tossing out there into cyberspace...
Once again the forces of virtue have triumphed over the forces of rottenness. -- Maxwell Smart
I have some non-blog activities to pursue, so here's a Tuesday afternoon open thread with something beautiful to look at:
Open Thread, Video, Vimeo, Short Film, Time Lapse, Milky Way
The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your doors, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love, instead, see all of us as one. -- Bill Hicks
Here's one of those simple, no-frills open threads. Oh okay, I'll throw in a fun video: I shot a little video every day of 2011 on my Canon Powershot, then I edited it all down to a little over a second each. It's interesting to be able to look back ...
Tanna: What do you think will be the next obstacle the Earth people will put in our way? Eros: Well, as long as they can think - we'll have our problems. -- Plan 9 from Outer Space
Communism forgets that life is individual. Capitalism forgets that life is social, and the kingdom of brotherhood is found neither in the thesis of communism nor the antithesis of capitalism but in a higher synthesis. It is found in a higher synthesis that combines the truths of both. Now, when ...
Human progress having reached a high level through respect for the liberty and dignity of men, it has become desirable to re-affirm these evident truths: [Item List] -- Will Durant, Declaration of Interdependence
Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind and accepts whatever it has to teach us, or somebody who says everything in this book must be considered the literal truth and never mind the fallibility of all the human beings involved? -- Carl Sagan ...
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. -- Kurt Vonnegut
Christmas is the one time of year when people of all religions come together to worship Jesus Christ. -- Bart Simpson
I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place. -- Xun Zi
A screaming comes across the sky. It has happened before, but there is nothing to compare it to now. -- Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow
Here we see an exemplary case of open registration, accompanied by an open thread. Reasons you should consider registering a free account at LGF: [Item List]
If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers. -- Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow
There's going to be a big Herman Cain-shaped hole in tonight's "Mike Huckabee Presidential Forum" on Fox News. The debate just won't be the same without the 999 plan. I miss him already.
Here's a no-frills Monday night open thread, with open registration in case you feel the need to screed. Registering gives you the ability to post comments and your own LGF Pages, and a bunch of other nice features as well. See you in the deep end.
A buzzard took a monkey for a ride in the air The monkey thought that everything was on the square The buzzard tried to throw the monkey off his back But the monkey grabbed his neck and said — "Now listen, Jack..." "Straighten up and fly right Straighten up and fly right Straighten up and fly ...
The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion. -- Richard Feynman, "What Do You Care What Other People Think?"
There are some dogs which, when you meet them, remind you that, despite thousands of years of manmade evolution, every dog is still only two meals away from being a wolf. -- Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, Good Omens