Sep 30

“Every time Congress takes a step to protect consumers, the banks use it as an excuse to raise fees … That doesn’t mean Congress shouldn’t pass consumer protection laws.” Mallory Duncan, general counsel for the National Retail Federation, in Ylan Q. Mui, “Bank of America to add $5 monthly debit card fee as era of low-cost banking ebbs,” The Washington Post, Sept. 29, 2011.

Sep 22

Source: http://chronicle.com/blogs/brainstorm/theres-always-a-class-war-going-on/39464

Sep 17

Source: http://www.buendnis-gegen-rechts.gelsenzentrum.de/

Apr 18

“Today’s radical conservatism is an unholy and unstable hodgepodge of ideas that are fundamentally alien to each other. This marriage is doomed.” Susan Brooks Thislethwaite, “The Gospel according to Ayn Rand,” On Faith, The Washington Post, April 18, 2011.

Apr 17

“Collectively, the past month served as a reminder that a piece of hardware should only be replaced if it’s about to stop working (whether it’s worn-out or just not up to challenges that didn’t exist when you first bought it) or if the new one can transform the way you work. Otherwise, you’re just being a big, dopey consumer.” Andy Ihnatko, “To upgrade, or not?” Macworld.com, April 17, 2011.

Too trivial to commonplace on this tumblelog? I think not. So much of our lives is bound up in such objects that it is important to step back and look at the conversation, or at least snippets from it—like the previous quote on telephoning. Life isn’t always profound.

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