There is no doubt that corruption at all levels has become a disease spreading throughout our society. – Sonia Gandhi, Leader of India’s Congress party, quoted in the New York Times piece Indian Party’s Leader Stands by Singh, December 20, 2010 Ha ha ha ha. Folks, we haven’t stopped laughing. Hey Sonia, if you’re so […]
Human venality is something I always expect and forgive. – Playwright Tennessee Williams on famed Hollywood director Elia Kazan’s decision to testify and disclose names of Communist party members in the movie/theater community before the House Un-American Activities Committee. Source – The New Yorker, December 13, 2010 P.90 Since most our readers are unschooled philistines […]
In the East none but Europeans and native princes seem well fed. – Irish writer Maud Power in Wayside Story (Maud’s 1905 travelogue based on her travels in India. Published by Downey and Co in 1907), P.56
A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use. Source: Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving Yes, yes, we know, we know all ye dickheads with your luscious lips wrapped around the dicks of Rajinikanth and the Bollywood Khans have no use […]
Sometimes I think my purpose on earth is to put my penis in the vaginas of as many women as I can. The idea of having sex with the same person for the rest of my life feels like death to me. – Jonathan Franzen’s character Richard Katz in the brilliant, must-read, captivating novel Freedom, […]
Words can be fatal in China. Zhang Zhixin, a young Chinese woman, was executed in 1975 for “opposing the Great Helmsman Chairman Mao, opposing Mao Zedong thought, opposing the revolutionary proletarian line and piling offense upon offense.” To ensure that Zhang could not cry out at her execution, her vocal cords were cut. Jonathan Mirsky […]