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Well, one use is for a righteous battle in opposition to oppression; the opposite is an infantile feet stomping in opposition to an inconvenience." --Dee Snider "Nuance shouldn't be the energy of 280 characters." --Doctor Doug ❝We love to buy books because we consider we're buying the time to read them." --Warren Zevon "To undermine the fundamental enchantment of superheroes like Superman and Supergirl by recasting them as anti-heroes at greatest or outright monsters - dragging imaginary childhood paragons off their pedestals to reinforce a fairly facile point about the tendency of real world heroes to exhibit ft of clay, struck me and strikes me nonetheless as imaginatively lazy. Using kids' journey heroes to make hackneyed observations about typical human habits that does not in fact apply to made up comic book characters strikes me as - I don't know - whimsical? Dilettantish? A squandering of energy and creativity?" --Grant Morrison "Netanyahu's response to his police's abuse of Pegasus reminds me of Merkel's response to NSA mass surveillance: when the victims had been 'merely' the global public, she dutifully papered over it. Only when her own identify was found on the goal list did it become a real scandal." --Edward Snowden As long as you fall in step with their objectives, they don't care what you concentrate on them. |