It's a shame that pantyless party girls get more attention than the real heroes, the nurses and teachers and moms.
Laura Penny
If there is no more market for ancient Greek, there should be no more ancient Greek. If there are no jobs for historians, there should be no history. If there is no money in brains, there should be no brains - except for the brains that make money.
money history
Bankers grovelled before the governments they usually revile, like wispy poets whining for grant money. They got billions in bailouts, yet somehow the financial sector still inspires more trust and respect than the government that saved it from itself.
trust money government
The panic over public health care is funny and sad, since America has had death panels and sinister bureaucrats for years. They're called Aetna, Humana, and Wellpoint, they make a killing, figuratively and literally.
funny health death the-public
Anyone taking classics or history for the prestige is either at Oxford or stuck in 1909.
history
When we valorize ignorance and debase reason, we diminish man and the humanity that dwells within him, to bum an old fashioned phrase from Kant.
man
The humanities are despised because they are dangerous. They arm us with the intellectual weapons we need to fight the forces ignorance and idiocracy, and to free ourselves from freedumb.
weapon force
mom heroes
Posthumous fame, book fame, nerd fame is not like the good kind of fame. It might last for centuries and let antique egg heads torture the young from the grave, but it just doesn't pay the bills.
fame
I can sculpt a birthday cake out of shit and insist that I obviously mean cake, that my real intent is to wish you a happy birthday, but my intentions and protestations cannot turn crap into a delicious dessert.
birthday
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