my hate is a self-sustaining plasma furnace, the Chinese should study my hate for their fusion project
Living in the core really drives it home constantly.
Your coworkers' amicable attitudes towards policies and laws designed to ruin people is 'acceptable', whereas treating those policies with open contempt is not.
Something about the civility of language and all that.
unfortunately i think if i asked that to people nowadays they would think i'm some kind of star wars nerd
which i am but i have the good sense of being embarrassed about it
Spicy aioli made from an emulsion of garlic, olive oil, and rage!
I love this essay and this question
And yes. Yes it is.
lol i just looked this up the other day because I always see people saying it on here, such a hilarious excerpt
It's something a guy named Cockburne used to ask his interns. A way of gauging if they had fire inside them, if they thought of the world as something awful and broken that could and should be mended.
Alex Cockburn was a socialist journalist who worked for The Nation. He was pretty solid on his analysis of US foreign policy, but kinda sucked on Freedom of Speech.
And if anyone is reading this and has never heard it said aloud, unfortunately it's pronounced "coh-burn"
