Raw Meat is a quoteblog by Aaron Swartz.

Sweet, bland recommendations fall everywhere upon the sene; a universal, if somewhat lobotomized acommodation regins. A book is born into a puddle of treacle; teh brine of hostile criticism is only a memory. Everyone is found to have “filled a need,” and is to be “thanked” for somehting and to be excused for “minor faults in an otehrwise ecellent work.” “A thoroughly mature artist” appears many times a week and often daily; many are the bringers of thoser “messages the Free World will ignore at its peril.

In America … literary failure … still occur[s], but the natural conditions for the occurrence are in a curious state of camouflage, like those decorating ideas in which wood is painted to look like paper and paper to look like wood. A genius may indeed go to his grave unread, but he will hardly have gone to it unpraised.

Decades ago, little George Soros decided to take over the world so he got rich through the capitalist system which he wished to destroy by paying John Kerry to fake his wounds and forge his service records in Vietnam so Kerry could run for president one day while leaving lots of people POW-MIA in Vietnam so that we’d all stop being afraid of Marxism so that literary critics from France could infect the minds of the young with Cultural Marxism and pornography via tenured radicals in English Departments and organizations like MoveOn.org and Media Matters and the Em Ess Em so that the Great International Communist Islamofascist Conspiracy to Dominate the World could move ahead by means of feminists evolutionary biologists atheists and liberal Christians who want to ban Christmas so that everyone will be gay and that way they’ll all be feminized and passive and won’t be able to do anything but stand around when the Islamic Bomb is built which it will be any moment because Saddam really did have WMDs in fact the only supply of WMDs in the entire world that the terrorists could possibly get their hands on and the Islamic Bomb is being built right now by Syria Russia North Korea and China most of which are not Islamic countries but it’s all the same thing anyway and everyone in the government from the Bush Administration to the Congress and all the way down the bureaucracy and the Em Ess Em knows this but isn’t saying anything because they’re too embarrassed and when the Islamic Bomb is developed it will be dropped on American cities and soon all those atheist liberal Christians will see oh yeah they’ll see all right when they all have to wear hijabs and then George Soros will have won.

I’m a parent myself, as you know. And I worry about my child and the Internet all the time, even though she’s too young to have logged on yet. Here’s what I worry about. I worry that 10 or 15 or 20 years from now she will come to me and say, “Daddy, where were you when they took freedom of the press away from the Internet?

Why, if I see anyone looking threatening, Asian, wearing black — I’m going to shoot that sucker first and ask questions later,” English professor Joel Wingard wrote in an e-mail exchange Tuesday…

It is almost as if the optimal way to proceed is to create a complete and rigorous analysis of class warfare, act strategically on this analysis, but never mention class … But that is silly! Forget I mentioned it. … Your site needs some “lolcats”.

i went through sort of the same thing when i was around 16-17 years old […] but if you wanna take a walk in the park with your shirt off and look like an action hero [] and land a girl as cute as halle berry.. then get some motivation to exercize

Consider two programs, one of which will fascinate 500,000 people, and
the other of which 30 million people will watch as slightly preferable
to watching their ceilings. The first might well be better for social
welfare.

Looking through the most recent board minutes, it looks like concerns have been raised about “the risk to FirstSearch revenues from OpenWorldCat,” and management incentive plans have been approved.

NYPL requested that its library records be destroyed[…]. “I would characterize the New York Public Library as being neither public nor a library,” Spero said.