things I like more than people

Dec 17

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from "The Daily Show", 12/16/09

• Jon: If we do beat you [at the World Cup], it really does, in some respects, put the final nail in the Empire. Your move.
• Hugh Grant: I agree with that, I mean you know the Empire is gone, and it's very sad, it's very sad for a lot of the world, now having to govern themselves I believe.
• Jon: Well I believe we're helping to take care of that, so...

“He’s… from Connecticut, a state where people don’t even allow their genitals to touch when they dance.” — Jon Stewart on Joe Lieberman, 12/16/09

Dec 15

“We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.” — Albert Einstein (via mnmal) (via proofmathisbeautiful) (via fuckyeahtheorists)

Dec 14

“[D]esire is neither the appetite for satisfaction nor the demand for love, but the difference that results from the subtraction of the first from the second…. [D]esire begins to take shape in the margin in which demand becomes separated from need.” —

Jacques Lacan

Also: “[D]esire’s raison d’être is not to realize its goal, to find full satisfaction, but to reproduce itself as desire.” —Slavoj Žižek

Dec 12

“[H]e was damned if he was going to water down his arguments simply to satisfy the preference of the mob for dogma and ignorance.” — Ben Elton, The First Casualty

Dec 10

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No one gets angry at a mathematician or a physicist whom he or she doesn’t understand at all, or at someone who speaks a foreign language, but rather at someone who tampers with your own language, with this “relation” precisely, which is yours….

I assure you that I never give in to the temptation to be difficult just for the sake of being difficult. That would be too ridiculous. it’s just that I believe in the necessity of taking time or, if you prefer, of letting time, of not erasing the folds….

In truth—here is another complication—I believe that it is always a “writer” who is accused of being “unreadable,” as you put it, that is, someone who is engaged in an explanation with language, the economy of language, the codes and the channels of what is the most receivable. The accused is thus someone who re-establishes contact between the corpora and the ceremonies of several dialects. If he or she is a philosopher, then it’s because he or she speaks neither in a purely academic milieu, with the language, rhetoric, and customs that are in force there, nor in that “language of everyone” which we all know does not exist.

Dec 03

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Dec 02

“Only 24 more shopping days to accept Jesus Christ as your lord and savior.” — Stephen Colbert, 12/1/09

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