Raw Meat is a quoteblog by Aaron Swartz.

I have actually heard clinicians in conference invoke this kind of notion on quasi-philosophical grounds, as if to suggest that since nobody knows for certain what reality is, we have no justification for invoking the distinction between the real and the imaginary in assessing a patient.

Until fairly recently relativism was mostly espoused by adolescents or other people inspired by Nietzsche.

I had read this account several times before I realized what so attracted me to it: here we had a perfect model of the Reagan White House.

A time is marked not so much by ideas that are argued about as by ideas that are taken for granted. The character of an era hangs upon what needs no defense.

Within the last year, has someone hurt you physically, emotionally, sexually or financially?

I am just wondering if you would care to say flatly that the CIA has never used political assination in Indo-China or elsewhere and has never induced, employed, or suggested to others that such tactics or devices be employed.

If you will make that flat statement under oath, I will not only apologize, I will tango with Dick Helms in Garfinckel’s largest show window at 14th and F—providing, of course, Mrs. Helms gives her permission.

I was ready to be utterly outraged when I saw Crash listed [in the Guardian’s list of the 1000 best films], but it turns out to be Cronenberg’s death-fetish-fest about psychotic perverts, not the gross one.

Liu Jingcai, of the sniffing team, said the work was “quite unpleasant”. “We have to stay in a lab smelling those awful gases repeatedly,” he said.

…and - most important of all - it imparts a feel-good sense of anti-corporate attitude to your next venture funding proposal or business plan.

If anyone thinks that I shouldn’t be stooping to personal abuse at all, I remind them that the context is the article linked above, and once more include by citation the works of Ludwig Wittgenstein.