Bradley Manning Support Network. Collateral Murder. I have only 1 real world idol. Richard Mitchell. The Leaning Tower of Babel. "Mitchell is invaluable.
Also, he's enormously entertaining. " --Clifton Fadimon "These pieces, articulate, intelligent, often wildly funny, and frequently dazzling, spring from a splendid mind, tuned to just the right pitch, and fired with an angry passion. . . . " --From the Introduction by Thomas H. Middleton. The Graves of Academe. Foreword "Clear language engenders clear thought, and clear thought is the most important benefit of education.
" Propositions Three and Seven "It was Jefferson's dream that that civilization could best perpetuate itself in which the citizens were 'educated,' whatever he meant by that, and we do have some clue as to what he meant. " The End of the String "It seemed to me that those teacher-trainers must be amiable and playful folk with well-developed aesthetic sensibilities and a penchant for drama, in bold contrast to the rest of us who taught what you call 'subjects,' dour and narrow people reciting lectures and devising 'thought' questions. " Carl Sagan. Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space by Carl Sagan - Reviews, Discussion, Bookclubs, Lists. Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence by Carl Sagan - Reviews, Discussion, Bookclubs, Lists. Hunter S. Thompson. Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72. Songs of the Doomed: More Notes on the Death of the American Dream.
Stephen Colbert. 2006 White House Correspondents' Dinner. Colbert makes bill O'Reilly mad on his own Show. Thomas Sowell. The Quest for Cosmic Justice. The Vision of the Anointed.