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

Tuesday Tune-up

Luray, "The Wilder"

Quote for the Week, July 27-August 2, 2014

When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?"
--Eleanor Roosevelt

Tuesday Tune-up

Kris Angelis & Zane Carney, "Nothing You Can Say"

Quote for the Week, July 20-26, 2014

Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism.
--Denis Diderot

Tuesday Tune-up

Clare Bowen & Lucy Schwartz, "Black Roses"

Quote for the Week, July 13-19, 2014

Those who thought the war would not last long underestimated the hierarchical state's ability to sustain industrialized slaughter.
--Niall Ferguson on the outbreak of WW1 a hundred years ago

Tuesday Tune-up

Chris & Gileah, "Love On This Island"

Quote for the Week, July 6-12, 2014

Gronk's become one of Boston's greatest ambassadors and tourist attractions, our goofy human Faneuil Hall or something.

--Chad Finn, Globe columnist

Tuesday Tune-up

Blue Oyster Cult, "Don't Fear the Reaper"

Quote for the Week, June 29-July 5, 2014

It's pretty much 90 minutes of turnovers.
--Dan Shaugnessy, Globe columnist, on the world's greatest sport

Tuesday Tune-up

Toto, "Rosanna"