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Robert A. Heinlein:
“Thou shalt honor the noble English language, speech of Shakespeare, Milton, and Poe, and it will serve thee all the days of thy life.”
http://www.heinleinsociety.org/

 

Dr. Dean Radin:
“Maintaining an open mind is important when examining the unknown, but allowing one’s brains to fall out in the process is inadvisable.”
http://www.deanradin.com/

 

R. U. Sirius:
“The genius of the hip left 60’s was that it resolved the tension between altruism and desire by enclosing the erotic, the atavistic, and the visionary within a philosophy of humanism, unifying the personal and political under an ideal of liberation.”
http://revolting.com/

 

Anonymous Seattle Craigslist Poster:
“I am a raging feminist bitch, but I still want to be penetrated like you are planning on fucking my throat from the inside out.”
http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/sea/561877622.html

 

Gloria Brame:
“Yes, folks, it’s that Lenten time of the year when religious extremists around the world take to the streets to whip themselves and get nailed to crosses to celebrate Easter. No one better get a sexual charge out of it, though, because then whipping and crucifixion would be frowned on by the Church. Let me explain. This is how to tell the SMers apart from the rest of the world:

  • We do such things because they feel wonderful and magical. So that’s morally wrong.
  • They do them to feel miserable and shattered. That’s morally right.”
http://gloriabrame.typepad.com/inside_the_mind_of_gloria/

 

Eric Flint:
“Online piracy – while it is definitely illegal and immoral – is, as a practical problem, nothing more than (at most) a nuisance. We’re talking brats stealing chewing gum, here, not the Barbary Pirates.”
http://www.baen.com/library/

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Boycott Jamaica and Hedonism II

Unless you’re a gay-basher and like to beat gays to a pulp, because Jamaica is the happy hunting ground for such people – and by bashing I’m not talking about nasty names, I’m talking about attempted murder being not only OK but encouraged by many Christian ministers on the island.

More information here.

YESiceptive, YESiceptive!!

A great post about obscurely painful words: http://gloriabrame.typepad.com/inside_the_mind_of_gloria/2008/02/sm-vocabulary-b.html