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"The definition of feminism does not ask for two forms of ( Read more... )

"I have been complaining about this for ages. Religious issues aside, it is positively criminal to ruin the cadence of another person's poem like that." -- viaticus, 2005-09-20, on the subject of the phrase "under God" being added ( Read more... )

"I confidently trust that the American people will prove ( Read more... )

"It is possible to read the history of this country as one long struggle to extend the liberties established in our Constitution to everyone in America." -- Molly Ivins (via Jone Johnson Lewis' collection of quotations on about.com)

Bonus quote in honour of the speaker's 70th birthday: "I write plays because dialogue is the most ( Read more... )

"Authority under law must, I know, be respected as the foundation of society and as the protection of peace. The extension of state power, however, into every phase of man's life and thought is the abuse of authority, the destroyer of freedom, and the enemy of real peace." -- Lester Bowles Pearson (b. 1897-04-23, d. 1972-12-27), 14thPrime ( Read more... )

"Let me give you a word of the philosophy of reform. The whole ( Read more... )

[Feh. Gotta fix the problem my post-to-three-blogs-at-once script has with multi-word subjects..]

This is, I think, a little too important to rick getting overlooked in the trivia and nattering of my previous entry, hence the second post in such a short time...

As a few other people have pointed out (mostly citing Pam's House Blend as where ( Read more... )

I propose an "all-purpose counter-protest" meme:

Equal Rights for Robots

Inspired by Charles Kline. (It seems to me that this could be used by folks on all sides of various issues, as easily by people I disagree with as by reasonable people ... folks who agree with me ( Read more... )

"The one thing I always remind people -- because they get discouraged, they say, 'you know, people around the world, they're expressing hatred toward America' -- you know, people outside of this country are expressing disappointment because they've got high expectations for America, and they wantAmerica to lead. They want America to lead ( Read more... )

"I always wonder about people who refuse the label 'Feminist' on the basis that they don't like labels. Do they also refuse to label themself a Republican, a liberal, an American, a woman, a wife, a doctor? I mean, why should those labels matter any more 'feminist'?

"Maybe some person out there does eschew all labels ( Read more... )