Sat 4 Jul 2009
Independence, like honour, is a rocky island without a beach.
Napoleon BonaparteSat 4 Jul 2009
America is much more than a geographical fact. It is a political and moral fact — the first community in which men set out in principle to institutionalize freedom, responsible government, and human equality.
Adlai StevensonSat 4 Jul 2009
If you put fences around people, you get sheep.
William McKnightSat 4 Jul 2009
And Happy Birthday to me… I can’t wait for my fireworks.
Fri 3 Jul 2009
During the Bush Administration, they kept supporting this fallacy called, “Abstinence Sex Education.” Now through the efforts of the Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal comic we see how it actually was supposed to work.
Thu 2 Jul 2009
from Ars TechnicaThere are two competing ideas on the process that governs the formation and maintenance of beliefs: 1) people maintain a belief because they have limited access to opposing beliefs, or 2) because they actively filter information in a way that avoids conflicting views. A new meta-analysis of past studies confirms the existence of active avoidance; when people are offered an opposing viewpoint, they will ignore it in favor of a supportive viewpoint in two out of three instances.
Nothing like a good avoidance mechanism when you don’t want the overhead of a paradigm shift…
Thu 2 Jul 2009
Revolutions happen when people don’t have a choice.
Ross Mayfield, Chairman, Socialtext
