Raw Meat is a quoteblog by Aaron Swartz.

The reasons McCain and Clinton were villains of the Rush Limbaugh/Sean Hannity crowd in the first place had nothing to do with their policy positions or votes in the Senate or anything like that. Their real crimes were their arrogant insistence on exercising their intellectual independence, as well as their stubborn refusal to indulge in drooling-caveman demagoguery. The instant both of them crossed into the hater column and began feverishly jacking off the toothless racists of the Deep South with broadsides against the America-hating socialist menace Obama, all was instantly forgiven.

In France, well into the 1900s it was actually thought wine could be used to cure alcoholism.

If you don’t have ADD, you’re not paying close enough attention.

Down the hall was Ithiel de Sola Pool, who periodically would disappear from campus, taking trips to Vietnam to help interrogate prisoners as part of the Phoenix Program assassination campaign to wipe out local resistance.

For a person with an iron constitution, a large fortune and a good lawyer, present0oriented desires could well be rational, but for those with fewer opportunities some concern for the future is needed.

YES, we do sell MANGA!

My ex-wife left me for her WoW guild leader.

The idea was not as well received by Paul Miller, past president of the American League of Lobbyists. […] “I don’t think the way you advocate is to put everything online and say, ‘All right American people, weigh in on that,’ because then what’s next?” Miller asked. “Are we going to let the American people decide our defense policy, our trade policy, our immigration policy?

The manual (which goes by the marvelously obvious and easily-typed name of ExtUtils::MakeMaker, by the way) is of limited help. It recommends solving the problem by travelling to Paterson, NJ, gouging your eyes out with your mom’s jewelry, and then driving over the Passaic River falls. Ha ha, just kidding. That would be a big improvement on what it actually suggests, for three reasons. First, it is clear and straightforward. Second, it would feel better than the stuff it does suggest. And third, it would actually solve your problem, although obliquely.