History lesson

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton with Global Cultural Ambassador for the U.S. Department of State Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton with Global Cultural Ambassador for the U.S. Department of State Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.

Bombs are for retarded people.

— Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Fars News Agency

Fist fight breaks out in Afghan parliament. Naturally, shoe throwing is involved.

Cowabunga Babes live at Origami Vinyl

I’m not exactly certain of the context for this photo, but I am certain that it was rad.

I’m not exactly certain of the context for this photo, but I am certain that it was rad.

Only in America can someone be in the Oval Office negotiating with leaders of the free world one minute, and the next — in a Loop basement being degraded by rejects from an old “Let’s Make a Deal” audience.

— Bob Sirott’s One More Thing About Rahm Emanuel’s Residency Hearing

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.

— Gustave Flaubert

But the shadows have foes, and like weeds we will grow.

— His Hero Is Gone – Like Weeds

There are weeds growing in the garden of democracy that our Founding Fathers created.

— From an email sent by Christine O’Donnell, Republican nominee for US Senate.