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Comment by Claudia Mercedes Mazzucco on May 9, 2013 at 8:13pm

Quote of the Day

“We are not barbarians. We bury the dead."

Worcester’s police chief urging an end to a weeklong quandary that kept Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s body stored at a funeral home while the cities where Tsarnaev lived and died and his mother's country all refused the remains. Finally an anonymous person stepped forward to help arrange a secret burial. He was buried in an unknown gravesite today.

Comment by Dallas the Phallus on May 7, 2013 at 2:13am

Superstition is ignorance presented under the cloak of authority. A superstition is a belief, usually expressed in definitive terms, for which there is no verifiable, factual basis; for instance, that the country in which you live is a finer place, all things considered, than all other countries. Or that the religion into which you were born confers upon you some special standing with the cosmos that is denied to other people. The teaching profession, it grieves me to say, has generated dozens of similar superstitions—for example, the belief that people with college degrees are educated, or the belief that students who are given lessons in grammar will improve their writing, or that one’s knowledge of anything can be objectively measured. For me, the most perilous of all these superstitions is the belief, expressed in a variety of ways, that the study of literature and other humanistic subjects will result in one’s becoming a more decent, liberal, tolerant, and civilized human being. Whenever someone alludes to this balderdash in my presence, I try to remind myself that during the last two decades men with Ph.D.s in the humanities and social sciences, many of them working for the Pentagon, have been responsible for killing more people in any given week than the Mafia has managed since its inception.  -- Neil Postman

Comment by Dallas the Phallus on May 6, 2013 at 12:48am

I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein

Comment by Dallas the Phallus on April 27, 2013 at 12:46am

Comment by Dallas the Phallus on April 19, 2013 at 9:58pm

Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold. -Leo Tolstoy, novelist and philosopher (1828-1910)

Comment by Claudia Mercedes Mazzucco on April 10, 2013 at 1:30pm

“Before I refuse to take your questions, I have an opening statement.”
~ Ronald Reagan ~

Comment by Michel on March 10, 2013 at 4:19am

Bukowsky was not necessarily a humanist =)

Comment by Dallas the Phallus on March 9, 2013 at 9:57pm

There's nothing to mourn about death any more than there is to mourn about the growing of a flower. What is terrible is not death but the lives people live or don't live up until their death. They don't honor their own lives, they piss on their lives. They shit them away. Dumb fuckers. They concentrate too much on fucking, movies, money, family, fucking. Their minds are full of cotton. They swallow God without thinking, they swallow country without thinking. Soon they forget how to think, they let others think for them. Their brains are stuffed with cotton. They look ugly, they talk ugly, they walk ugly. Play them the great music of the centuries and they can't hear it. Most people's deaths are a sham. There's nothing left to die.

-- From The Captain is Out to Lunch and the Sailors have taken over the Ship, by Charles Bukowski

Comment by Neal on February 27, 2013 at 2:03pm

He is from SC, needs to be religious.

Comment by Michel on February 27, 2013 at 12:18pm

He's known to be a practicing Catholic, but he sure is anti-clerical.

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