random quotes ... to amuse, inspire, enrage:
  His humor is the humor of the mob against the victim, of sword against the pen, of six sleazeballs on a street-corner in Bensonhurst yelling at passing cars. P. J. O'Rourke is precisely the kind of ignorant pinheaded loudmouth political pimp Mencken boned and gutted for breakfast. He's Babbitt with attitude.

tagged: P. J. O'Rourke, jerks, comedy, Mencken, conservatives, insults
  —Tony Hendra (on P. J. O'Rourke), quoted in Fighting Words, p.140.

Google just cries out for Tom Lehrer

Wednesday, August 11th, 2010

Or rather, the phenomenon that is Google cries out for Tom Lehrer. Come out of retirement, Tom! Political satire is not obsolete, notwithstanding Kissinger’s Nobel …. A colleague posted on a listserv a brief note about an article on “Google’s planes”. I thought, no, really? Google is buying planes? for streetview, I imagine — holy [...]

Tagged privacy, , , , , . | 1,082 views | Comments Off


Warning: require_once(/home/lquilter/lquilter.net/blog/wp-content/themes/LQnineshadesgreen/footer.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in /home/lquilter/lquilter.net/blog/wp-includes/template.php on line 407

Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required '/home/lquilter/lquilter.net/blog/wp-content/themes/LQnineshadesgreen/footer.php' (include_path='.:/usr/local/lib/php:/usr/local/php5/lib/pear') in /home/lquilter/lquilter.net/blog/wp-includes/template.php on line 407