New Term
I feel suddenly relieved that UCR is on the quarter system. While my friends in other schools are making last-minute changes to their syllabi, I just started working on mine. I'm teaching two courses: a survey in conte...
After The Fall (Prejudgment)
Watched this weekend: The Bank Job, with good old Jason Statham stolidly refusing to act as usual. Verdict? Surprisingly not very terrible! I mean, it wasn't as life-changing as the frankly incredible Crank, nor was it as 80's-saxopho...
"There’s a whole area of science that needs to relate climate and physical change to people and..."
“There’s a whole area of science that needs to relate climate and physical change to people and social changes – to identify relationships between physical changes and social consequences.” - Eric Baran, a scientist in Phnom Penh, a...
"The laws and Constitution are designed to survive, and remain in force, in extraordinary times."
““The laws and Constitution are designed to survive, and remain in force, in extraordinary times.”” - Justice Anthony M. Kenn...
"How can you have an election where people are killed and hacked to death as the sun goes down?"
“How can you have an election where people are killed and hacked to death as the sun goes down?” - Marwick Khumalo, observer in Zimbabwe for the Pan-African Parliament [source:
"Have you noticed that their stuff is shit and your shit is stuff?"
“Have you noticed that their stuff is shit and your shit is stuff?” - George Carlin on his LP, A P...
"… What really made the day-to-day so laborious and apt at any turn to come apart in disaster..."
“… What really made the day-to-day so laborious and apt at any turn to come apart in disaster were … the small annoyances, which, through some homeopathic principle of the irksome, acted more powerfully the more trivial they were.” -
"The legal ruling that the District’s citizens can keep loaded handguns in their homes..."
“The legal ruling that the District’s citizens can keep loaded handguns in their homes doesn’t mean that they should.” - Arthur Kellermann,
"The better the state is constituted, the more does public business take precedence over private in..."
“The better the state is constituted, the more does public business take precedence over private in the minds of the citizens.” - Jean-Jacques Rousseau,
"As soon as someone says of the business of the state—’What does it matter to me?’—then..."
“As soon as someone says of the business of the state—’What does it matter to me?’—then the state must be reckoned lost.” -
"I don’t think riding in a fighter plane and getting shot down is a qualification to be..."
“I don’t think riding in a fighter plane and getting shot down is a qualification to be president.” - General Wesley Clark talking about Senator McCain
"Constant revolutionizing of production, uninterrupted disturbance of all social conditions,..."
“Constant revolutionizing of production, uninterrupted disturbance of all social conditions, everlasting uncertainty and agitation distinguish the bourgeois epoch from all earlier ones.” -
"The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it."
“The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it.” - Karl Marx with Frederick Engels, “Theses on Feuerbach” (18...
"The past is a pit where our impressions of the moment are endlessly accumulated, layer by layer, the..."
“The past is a pit where our impressions of the moment are endlessly accumulated, layer by layer, the more recent obscuring the others which in time become a formless mass, where it is difficult to find anything clear.” -
"I end as I began; old age and childhood have their analogies; extremes often meet."
“I end as I began; old age and childhood have their analogies; extremes often meet.” - Emile Guil...
"Today the focus for lenders is not so much on consumer loans being repaid, but on the loan as a..."
“Today the focus for lenders is not so much on consumer loans being repaid, but on the loan as a perpetual earning asset.” - Julie L. Williams, as
"Yet we must point out that, the more odious and unpopular a crime is, the more necessary it is that..."
“Yet we must point out that, the more odious and unpopular a crime is, the more necessary it is that its proof and its punishment should be surrounded by all the safeguards of public justice. Of these the most indispensable is publicity.” - ...
"Like much else, killing was something one could get used to."
“Like much else, killing was something one could get used to.” - Christopher R. Browning, Ord...
"Maybe the greatest heritage of the Olympics will be our sense of the importance of a blue sky and..."
“Maybe the greatest heritage of the Olympics will be our sense of the importance of a blue sky and traffic conditions that are not so horrible.” - Shi Yinhong, Center for American Studies at People’s University, China, quoted in
"As the landscape turned increasingly chaotic and murderous, the streams of refugees swelled. Another..."
“As the landscape turned increasingly chaotic and murderous, the streams of refugees swelled. Another headlong, fearful escape of the kind that in collective dreams, in legends, would be misremembered and reimagined into pilgrimage or crusade … the da...
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