February 2012
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☛ The distinction “white-collar crime” merely provides vain criminals with a degree of variance: their crimes still crime plain and simple.
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☛ Everyone is a communist until they earn their first dollar.
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☛ Bureaucracy is the interface at which the more abstract facets of the nation-state construct become tangible reality to the average citizen.
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“Life is research.”
– William Gibson
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☛ Unless full employment becomes the law there’s no such thing as “illegal” strikes.
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☛ Dreaming of something doesn’t equate desiring it: most dreams are nightmares.
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☛ If you can afford private health insurance, you probably don’t need any.
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☛ Photography has ceased being a tool for remembering, and become one for emphasising communication and identity.
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☛ The real immigration dilemma mightn’t be the resolute stream of new people arriving, but old people not departing fast enough.
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☛ If you were in school in the 1950s, your ideas about the future are likely as relevant as teletype is to texting.
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January 2012
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☛ If your sole counterargument is violence, you’ve already lost the exchange.
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☛ Geeks get things done. Nerds don’t.
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☛ In electoral democracies people get the governments they deserve.
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☛ It’s tempting at times to suggest that the best way to deal with ignorant bigots would be to remove all safety labels & let nature take its course.
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☛ We begin to lose our humanity when we start referring to our opponents — material or spiritual — as something other than human.
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