So, is there hope for a truly democratic Africa? Long answer: Only if continent-wide improvements in education, human rights and public health are coupled with an aggressive and far-sighted debt-relief program that breaks the cycle of subsistence farming and urban squalor. Short answer: No.
If we amplify everything, we hear nothing.
I’m not going to censor myself to comfort your ignorance.
It is perhaps a sign of the strength of our republic that so few people feel the need to participate. That must be the reason.
I celebrated Thanksgiving in an old-fashioned way. I invited everyone in my neighborhood to my house, we had an enormous feast, and then I killed them and took their land.
Glenn Beck does have a dream. Unfortunately, it’s the kind of dream you have when you eat four pepperoni hot pockets right before bed.
In whose delusional mind is democracy made ‘better’ by allowing wealthy people to control more of it?
Evil is relatively rare. Ignorance is epidemic.
If it turns out that President Barack Obama can make a deal with the most intransigent, hard-line, unreasonable, totalitarian mullahs in the world but not with Republicans? Maybe he’s not the problem.
That’s the Senate Ethics Committee, an oxymoron since 1973.
When you are actually powerful, you don’t need to be petty.
Corporations are the only reason the tax code is so complicated in the first place. Those off-shore loopholes didn’t get carved out by poor people.
The Internet is just a world passing around notes in a classroom.
Religion. It’s given people hope in a world torn apart by religion.
I want to look back on my career and be proud of the work, and be proud that I tried everything.
We’re Jews. When you look at our pubic hair, it should look like Ewoks should be in there.
So Fox News is the voice of America and Obama is Stalin? Oh my God! I guess that makes me Yakov Smirnoff.