A man should read as his fancy takes him, for what he reads as a chore will do him little good.

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Samuel Johnson (via Marginal Revolution: How to become sophisticated?)

We bought Antje three Pokemon graphic novels yesterday, and she took six other comics out of the library the day before, along with two books about bugs. She’s the best reader in her class, in my biased opinion.

3D No glasses by Jonathan Post (via MrJonathanpost)

Ben Gibbard - It’ll Be A Breeze (via farrelly)

“Usul has called a big one! Again, it is the legend!”

One of the verbal tics that’s most in evidence now is the catechismal insertion of the adjective senseless before the word violence. What kind of violence was it, Mister President? Sensless violence. You see, when you are the plenipotentiary of the world’s foremost death machine, when you are ordering, literally every day, the killing of human beings, the destruction of homes, the bombing of farms and factories, then obviously you can’t just go out and condemn violence. You have to condemn “senseless” violence. You can’t condemn killing. You have to condemn pointless killing.

—Who Is IOZ?: Purity of Essence

I’m on the one mission
To get a politician
To honor or he’s a gonner
By the time I get to Arizona

To the extent that the state systems resist privatization by becoming more customer-friendly, they undermine their reason for existing, which is to deter alcohol consumption by making it more expensive, less appealing, and less convenient.

—No Booze for You - Reason Magazine

We fear change… (via CptChaos47)