Oh, groan, I know. But it's February and winter is never going to end, so that's what I've got. There's only a smattering of Olympics tweets here, but more on racial and economic justice.
Why do we sometimes call New Jersey "Jersey" but never call New York "York"?
By Josh Greenman
Government charging for #publictransit is like a department store charging people to use the escalator. It's rationing, not revenue.
By Free Public Transit
Obama to black boys: You're subject to poverty, discrimination, and mass incarceration because you didn't do your homework.
By Nikhil Goyal
"Who is the covetous man? One for whom plenty is not enough. Who is the defrauder? One who takes away what belongs to everyone."
By Matt Bruenig
This is the 2012 Electoral College map if only white men and white women could vote:
By Matthew Drake
It's a bit odd that when you ask certain conservatives to Love Thy Neighbor they feel their religious freedom is at risk.
By Frank Conniff
Many are favorited. Few are retweeted. -Jesus
By Chris Steller
Spoiler: libertarian arguments against democracy assume their preferred economic institutions are the default ones that happen ex nihilo.
By Matt Bruenig
If Shakespeare had lived today, the line would have been "kill all the SEO firms."
By Les Lim
Conjecture: In print, "Millenials" generally means young whites from the top third of families.
By Matt Bruenig
And for the third time in middle school, my kid learned what an idiom is...cuz that's really important.
By mpljr (Sisyphus38)
Capitalism squandered fossil fuels, and took credit for efficiency.
By Free Public Transit
The average Canadian is now richer (for the first time in history) than the average American.
By Men's Facts
In Democratic Republic of Congo, 6 births/woman, population 2012 = 65 million. 2041 = 130 millions. Today 25% of women want but do not have access to contraceptives.
By Hans Rosling
School is easy. Just suppress everything you want to do and focus on doing everything they tell you to do. Guaranteed "A" student.
By mpljr (Sisyphus38)
#DearHumanity Your achievements are nothing compared to what a wise civilization could have accomplished with half the resources. #PeakOil
By The Universe
Bear with a pacifier holding lightsabers:
By Halloween Costumes
How about “reduce inequality so more people can enjoy the benefits of survivable failure.”
By mattyglesias
Weight Watchers ad: "When you were a girl, 'anything is possible' meant 'you can be an astronaut'! NOW it means you can lose weight!"
By Margaret H. Willison
Weight Watchers, THIS MESSAGE IS NOT ENCOURAGING ME TO LOSE WEIGHT. IT IS ENCOURAGING ME TO DESTOOOOOYYYYY YOUUUUUUU.
By Margaret H. Willison
It's weird how views held for no reason -- i.e. "faith" -- get extra deference instead of reduced deference.
By Josh Barro
Worldwide, more than 270,000 pedestrians are killed by drivers every year -- more than malnutrition or violence in war.
By AlexSteffen
RT @anghelides: This documentation would benefit from end-user testing:
By Rob England
Think of the first computer you ever used, and how basic and primitive it would seem now. That's how a toddler will remember an iPad.
By Benedict Evans
It's unrealistic to blame people for not studying what's in demand when there's only a handful of jobs actually in demand.
By Sarcastica McSmarty
Humans must decarbonize at 5.1% for next 39 consecutive years to make 2°C target.
By Free Public Transit
I like people who read books.
By Nikhil Goyal
The most important prerequisite to winning international support for your revolution is hiring good photographers.
By Murtaza Hussain
Buses work 18 hours a day -- about the same amount of time cars sit idle.
By Free Public Transit
Wow. RT @iseff This is an incredible map. 50% of GDP comes from the orange areas, 50% from the blue:
By Ezra Klein
I don't see anybody talking about how Michael Dunn and George Zimmerman should've just made better choices. Been more personally responsible.
By Brittney Cooper
We don't have failed schools, we have a failed political system that has not tried to solve the problems of poverty & mental health.
By Kevin Kelly Ph.D.
Some people think climate change could be leading to extinction-level event, but man are we gonna have cool apps in the meantime.
By Tom Tomorrow
6-year-old: "Why is the Little House always smiling, no matter what happens to her?"
By Rainbow Rowell
"Living is learning and when kids are living fully and happily they are learning a lot, even if we don't know what it is. " --John Holt
By mpljr (Sisyphus38)
Cars use 90% of road space to move 10% of passenger load: Campaign to promote walking, cycling.
By Free Public Transit
Now this is a Winter Olympics event I could get behind: Men's Outdoor Kerning:
By Dudley Storey
Focus on lowering the achievement gap? Or focus on changing what we consider achievement?
By mpljr (Sisyphus38)
The burden of blackness is to prove one’s innocence, to justify one’s humanity. #JordanDavis #Dunntrial #Dunnverdict
By Khalil G. Muhammad
The privilege of whiteness is to take both for granted. #Dunnverdict #Dunntrial #JordanDavis
By Khalil G. Muhammad
Florida should open a Justice Theme Park so the state's black residents can live the fantasy they never experience in real life.
By Frank Conniff
"The 1.5 billion people living in fragile or failed states understand very well that what they need is a better state, not the absence of one."
By Jay Ulfelder
It is kind of humanizing that 1 percenters want not just to be rich but also to be loved and respected.
By Matt Bruenig
Hell is full of people who slow down when they merge.
By Daniel Miessler
When I was 11, a friend designed and built an AMAZING tree house. Sans adults. He was a brilliant C- student. Lots of them running around.
By mpljr (Sisyphus38)
If you think a major problem in American education is the lack of student work ethic, you're deluded and dead wrong.
By Nikhil Goyal
Liberals: If you share "Natural News" articles, you don't get to laugh at Republicans who are creationists and global warming deniers.
By Ryan Grant Long
If we hate the tests we have to stop bragging about our test scores and stop talking about student growth/achievement based on test scores.
By mpljr (Sisyphus38)
Is there a worse government misnomer than the U.S. Department of the Interior? Hello...? Exterior?
By Chris Steller
General patriarchy check: Way too many men at my events telling me to stop excluding them by talking theory and feminism. Please don't.
By Suey Park
Idea: For students whose lunch-accounts are not current, offer Asian carp. #winwin
By Chris Steller
School has a type of Munchausen by Proxy -- we give them the "illness" then we try to cure them. (Apathy, lack of curiosity, etc.)
By mpljr (Sisyphus38)
Hundreds of schools send 100% to college ... after booting 40%.
By Gary Rubinstein
Dear Capitalism, an entry level position doesn't require 3+ years of experiences. Stop saying entry level when you just mean low paying.
By Amy
Odd that we pathologize impostor syndrome. Seems like those afflicted are the correct ones and the non-afflicted merely self-delusional.
By Matt Bruenig
Today in Portland:
By Ben Matasar
Meritocracy: Work hard and you will be rewarded. Poverty, inequality, unemployment, institutionalized racism, mass incarceration be damned!
By Nikhil Goyal
UPS says it saved 10 million gallons of gas from 2004-2012 by eliminating left turns from delivery routes.
By Carlton Purvis
If organizations are worried about developing young people who then leave -- what if you DON'T develop them and they stay?
By Chris Oien
When can AOL get past this distraction and return to its core business of selling email to people who don't realize it's available for free?
By Josh Barro
Hey @nytimes: When you refer to us as "The Heartland," we know what you mean: Quaint. Ignorant. Inconsequential.
By Phil Brinkman
"No American should accept the idea that the POTUS has the power to order American citizens killed." —Glenn Greenwald on Democracy Now
By Nikhil Goyal
It makes me so sad that entire charity organizations exist to buy supplies for underfunded schools, yet the pointless TSA is totally funded.
By Brian Vargas
Intelligent design in a nutshell: “Your theory isn’t complete, so here’s an alternative theory that’s orders of magnitude less complete.”
By Jack Scanlan
Almost all heroin users in US are white, but whites are never villainized in media as the cause of their addictions. Instead, focus on Mexico.
By Think Mexican
I love how diverse Fox News is:
By Calvin
If you have to smile while you're performing, it's not a real sport.
By Laura Helmuth
Capitalism never worked. It was just a drunken bully chugging cheap oil.
By Free Public Transit
“If we really saw war, what war does to young minds and bodies, it would be impossible to embrace the myth of war." —Chris Hedges
By Nikhil Goyal
Leaning in. But then I lost my balance & am stuck in this ravine.
By Janine Brito
The entire bi-partisan practice of giving ambassadorships to donors is corrupt and embarrassing. Get rid of it.
By Christopher Hayes
Happy boxes need to get a room:
By Halloween Costumes
Same sex marriage isn't gay privilege, it's equal rights. Privilege would be something like gay people not paying taxes. Like churches don't.
By Ricky Gervais
"Today I wouldn't get an academic job. I don't think I would be regarded as productive enough." -- Almost anyone hired more than 20 years ago
By Shit Academics Say
Kids are so cool. They play & love & play & love & play & love. You can do this, too.
By worldsdaughter
"Women's tragic inability to grasp circular logic has long hindered their success in many creative fields."
By Monika Bauerlein
Are any of us THAT surprised Jerry Seinfeld has never read "A Room of One's Own"?
By Guy Branum
Someone needs to tell the whiny rich about the French Revolution. Seems more on point than the holocaust.
By Matt Bruenig
Mayor Hodges at [Minneapolis] Downtown Council: "People don't object to the density of people, they object to the density of cars."
By Sam Black
Magical realism is a lovely device for fiction, but makes for a pisspoor understanding of the world we actually live in.
By Tom Tomorrow
Never use "effect" as a verb. It is a verb, sure. But just, don't.
By Chris Steller
Twitter creates relationships with people you'll never meet. Facebook destroys relationships with people you've known for years.
By Chris Rock
The rule of design concepts: If you show one, they’ll hate it. If you show more than one, they’ll want to combine them.
By Dan Saffer
The difference between cult and religion: In a cult there's a person at the top who knows it's a scam. In a religion that person is dead.
By Atheist World
This entire time I thought you guys were making a joke about the 400 Bar in the Mall of America. Real life is why the Simpsons isn't funny anymore.
By Molly Priesmeyer
How sad for bathing suit designers that they have never ever seen or touched a breast. I mean, I'm assuming.
By Julieanne Smolinski
I bristle when romantic love is treated like a low or girlie thing. It's not lame and girlie to want love. IT'S LIFE.
By Rainbow Rowell
Putting in 100% of your effort into any task is scary because it "robs you of all your excuses" should it not succeed.
By Adam Holman
What if being productive is the least interesting goal we could ever imagine? What if being more interesting were our national ambition?
By Elissa Milne
School mobility (moving in or out of a district during the year) is highest for low-income, migrant & homeless kids. 38-40% in my Colorado county.
By Charlie Quimby
But when kids fail in school, it's on the teachers and the system.
By Charlie Quimby
Rigor and pre-k going together scares me.
By Peter DeWitt
Corporations are people. The kind who don't get arrested after poisoning your water, flooding a town with oil or blowing up a fertilizer plant.
By Everybody Needs It
Is there anything more tautological than tautology?
By Chris Steller
My brain is sports Teflon. There's no judgment attached either way. Just...nothing sports goes in. It's like showing a dog a card trick.
By maureenjohnson
California's in a drought. ~10% of our water is personal use; ~85% is agriculture. I'm supposed to shower less. 1 lb of beef = ~1800lbs of water...
By Bradley Voytek
There is a certain irony in the car with the "coexist" bumper sticker taking up two spots.
By Daniel Wolter
Am filled with a certain irony finding Woody Guthrie's Bound for Glory on sale at Walmart.
By Josh Marshall
Low tide and a rake are all Andres Amador needs to create his works of art:
By Saatchi Gallery
Every essay starts with an elaborate magic trick intended to disguise the actual first sentence, which is "You know, I was just thinking..."
By John Dickerson
2 comments:
What an impressive compilation of quotes! Love the outdoor kerning photo too! Kolean Pitner
What an impressive compilation of quotes. Love the outdoor kerning photo too!
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