Sunday, August 31, 2014

Quote for the Week, August 31-September 6, 2014


The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.
--H.L. Mencken


Tuesday, August 26, 2014

Tuesday Tune-up




Robert Plant & Alison Krauss, "Please Read the Letter"


Monday, August 25, 2014

Quote for the Week, August 24-30, 2014


Even the smallest amount of central planning, where it disturbs private, individual planning to the slightest effect, reduces the sum of human happiness.
--Bill Bonner


Tuesday, August 19, 2014

Tuesday Tune-up




Shovels & Rope, "Lay Low"


Sunday, August 17, 2014

Quote for the Week, August 17-23, 2014


Sadly, our modern internet-connected brain tricks us every day into thinking that it is more rewarding and a better use of our time to simply not think but instead absorb and dump.
--Anthony Richardson



Tuesday, August 12, 2014

Tuesday Tune-up




Jason Mraz, "3 Things"


Sunday, August 10, 2014

Quote for the Week, August 10-16, 2014


Sycophancy toward those who hold power is a fact in every regime, and especially in a democracy, where, unlike tyranny, there is an accepted principle of legitimacy that breaks the inner will to resist.
--Alan Bloom


Tuesday, August 5, 2014

Tuesday Tune-up




Sugar and the Hi-Lows, "I've Got You Covered"


Sunday, August 3, 2014

Quote for the Week, August 3-9, 2014


It's like me adopting an African child, then claiming myself as his dependent.
--Stephen Colbert on tax inversions engineered by U.S. corporations