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 Tune-up

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

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 Tune-up

Shovels & Rope, "Lay Low"

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 Tune-up

Jason Mraz, "3 Things"

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 Tune-up

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

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