Tuesday

“[H]ypermobility . . . is the great undiagnosed sickness of our age.” p. 89.

“Today we know Mother Jones primarily as the name of a magazine for consumerist liberals whose idea of a radical act is selling their R.J. Reynolds stock and buying Starbucks. The real Mother Jones–Irish-born Mary Harris Jones (1830-1930), the coal miners' angel and raiser of holy hell who said, 'I would fight God Almighty himself if he didn't play square with me'–was to her namesake magazine as Thomas Jefferson is to The Jeffersons.” p. 124.

“The most dangerous people–the ones who will kill you for your own good–are those who s ubordinate the individual to abstractions: the class, the master race, the efficient economy.” p. 173.

Look Homeward, America