Monday, November 30, 2009

Social technician

The new social technician, part schoolmarm, part bully,

Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Thanksgiving

I don’t go so far as to think that the only good Indians are dead Indians, but I believe nine out of ten are, and I shouldn’t like to inquire too closely into the case of the tenth. - Theodore Roosevelt

[W]e shall destroy all of them. - Thomas Jefferson, referring to Native peoples

Saturday, November 21, 2009

Ministers

"A minister with TWO ideas! I don't think I've ever..."

English Universities

Sir Humphrey's wonderful "The universities.....both of them."

Senators

“the model that best predicted the network structure of U.S. senators was that of social licking among cows.”

Thursday, November 19, 2009

Zabar's

After conferring with everyone at Zabar's, Obama decided...

Capitalism

“Capitalism without failure is like religion without sin,” Meltzer sharply observed.