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The web is just as hard to regulate as Hinduism, which has no founder, no supreme doctrinal authority, no precise place of origin.


“We shouldn’t be forced to choose at all. The fury in Aida’s voice was familiar. Nostalgic. I’d once possessed that strain of fury, as had my fellow cooks, my friends, my produce guy, a virulent rage against our tainted inheritance of this stupid, smog-choked planet. But it couldn’t last. We’d been inoculated from rage by other, more immediate concerns. For example: how to pay rent, how to stay alive. Aida, rich as she was, hadn’t been forced to choose between anger and dinner. For the first time in years, I tasted, through her, that feeling.”
― Land of Milk and Honey
― Land of Milk and Honey

“In general, I’ve been trying to say yes to more things. It’s not easy when you’ve been making excuses all your life.”
― Big Mushy Happy Lump
― Big Mushy Happy Lump

“bragging is breathing and insulting is talking, where repetition and contradiction come standard, where vengefulness and insecurity erupt at random. Elsewhere, such qualities might get in the way of the story. With Trump, they are the story.”
― The Washington Book: How to Read Politics and Politicians
― The Washington Book: How to Read Politics and Politicians
“â€� nature doesn’t care about us; it neither has interests nor desires, it simply exists.”
― Four Futures: Life After Capitalism
― Four Futures: Life After Capitalism

“Religion is a flimsy construction of rituals infused with arbitrary power. The gestures have always been empty; behind them stand hustlers no different from you. All that is required is a convincing performance.”
― Land of Milk and Honey
― Land of Milk and Honey

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