quoted.news: Quick Hits Friday
Obama (YouTue): “Our thoughts and prayers are not enough. It’s not enough” (101 shares).
Obama (Atlantic): “This is a political choice that we make, to allow this to happen every few months in America” (239 shares).
Obama (Vice): “We are the only country on Earth who sees these mass shootings every few months” (288 shares).
“We labor in the dark, you know? If anybody even reads what I’m doing, that’s a great day” (8 shares).
On dating websites, “grammar snobbery is one of the last permissible prejudices” (10 shares)
“My mother taught me many things, including, in the end, how to die” (258 shares).
In 2014 Alabama started requiring a drivers license to vote. March of this year marked the 50th anniversary of the historic march from Selma to Montgomery. Now: “Every single county in which blacks make up more than 75 percent of registered voters will see their driver license office closed” (88 shares).
“You may not share your sports opinion while, at the same time, being a woman” (8 shares), wrote Julie Dicaro regarding the bullshit woman put up with from sports fans. “There’s no reason that I… should have to tolerate things online that no one would ever accept off it” (23).
“I feel really bad that we inspired such bullshit” (122 shares). That’s Rage Against the Machine bassist Tim Commerford apologizing for starting the rap-rock genre that inspired Limp Bizkit.
“Russian policy in Syria is aimed toward the transformation of the country into a refugee factory” (62 shares).
Nicholas Kristof think the world’s best kept secret is that “we live at a historic inflection point when extreme poverty is retreating” (18 shares).
The DEA retained agents they knew had “distributed drugs, lied to the authorities or committed other serious misconduct” (32 shares).
“We’re trying to be a leader in apocalyptic defense scenarios” (57 shares), said Tesla founder Elon Musk regarding his latest car’s “bioweapon defense mode” button. It reportedly uses an air filter ten times larger than average. The new Model X is more than just a nifty button. Wired’s take: “Tesla has made the family car cool” (26).
“Cities change. It is their nature. Those which stop changing stop being cities” (27 shares).
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Originally published at tinyletter.com.
