Quotation of the Day: December 2016

Saturday, December 17, 2016

Quotation of the day for December 17, 2016

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Quotation of the Day for December 17, 2016

"In the late 1980s, the satirical New York magazine Spy - perhaps the greatest periodical in the history of the universe - took as its main target a local blowhard real estate developer, Donald Trump. It began referring to him as "short-fingered vulgarian Donald Trump".... In 1989, Spy gave Mr. Trump five spots on its annual list of 100 Most Annoying People, Places and Things.

"You'd think Mr. Trump might have moved on in the past 30 years. I mean, that's a lot of gilt under the bridge. And really, he will soon ascend to the White House, thanks to a couple of cloaks placed over mud puddles by his gallant friends in the Kremlin. If ever there is a perch to be magnanimous from, it's that one. But magnanimity does not seem to be part of Mr. Trump's cosmos.

"Mr. Trump has not been able to let it go. The derision of his digits makes him crazy. At one of the Republican presidential nominee debates, gently goaded by Marco Rubio, he burst into a furious defence of his hands - and by extension, the unseen part of his anatomy (no, not his heart. He couldn't very well defend the size of that)."

- Elizabeth Renzetti, in her essay "Go ahead, laugh: Humour is the weapon in the fight against Trump".

[http://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/go-ahead-laugh-humour-is-the-weapon-in-the-fight-against-trump/article33356471/]

Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk
Dec. 17, 2016

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Sunday, December 11, 2016

Quotation of the day for December 11, 2016

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Quotation of the Day for December 11, 2016

"Perhaps no civic organization has shown its resilience in the face of all odds more than the Drunken Santas, a tight-knit group of New Orleanians who, after a round of drinking games at Madigan's bar one night in 1998, decided to take an activist role in the holidays rather than sit around getting soused by themselves.

"So they decided to get soused with others. Spreading the cheer is their aim. So they dress up in Santa costumes (or skimpier facsimiles thereof for the female members of this organization, the Ho-Ho-Hos) and they charter a fleet of limos and they pub-crawl.

"These guys are right up there with the Salvation Army and Rex when it comes to giving back to the community this time of year. As Ho-Ho-Ho Natasha Daniel put it, "We have a good time. We push people into garbage piles. Make them take shots with us. You know: all the reindeer games."

"Now, I realize that at this point in the story the eyes of the righteous are rolling. Wait until they hear about this in Congress, I hear you saying. Now they're never going to give us that $2 billion we need to rebuild New Orleans."

- Chris Rose, from his memoir of post-Katrina New Orleans, 1 Dead in Attic.

Submitted by: Terry Labach
May 13, 2016

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Thursday, December 1, 2016

Quotation of the day for December 1, 2016

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Quotation of the Day for December 1, 2016

"This generally has been called the "hate election" because everyone professed to hate both candidates. It turned out to be the hate election because, and let's not mince words, of the hatefulness of the electorate. In the years to come, we will brace for the violence, the anger, the racism, the misogyny, the xenophobia, the nativism, the white sense of grievance that will undoubtedly be unleashed now that we have destroyed the values that have bound us. We all knew these hatreds lurked under the thinnest veneer of civility. That civility finally is gone.

"We all knew these hatreds lurked under the thinnest veneer of civility. That civility finally is gone. In its absence, we may realize just how imperative that politesse was. It is the way we managed to coexist.

"If there is a single sentence that characterizes the election, it is this: "He says the things I'm thinking." That may be what is so terrifying. Who knew that so many tens of millions of white Americans were thinking unconscionable things about their fellow Americans? Who knew that tens of millions of white men felt so emasculated by women and challenged by minorities? Who knew that after years of seeming progress on race and gender, tens of millions of white Americans lived in seething resentment, waiting for a demagogue to arrive who would legitimize their worst selves and channel them into political power? Perhaps we had been living in a fool's paradise. Now we aren't."

- Neal Gabler, in his essay Farewell, America.

[http://billmoyers.com/story/farewell-america/]

Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk
Nov. 30, 2016

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