{"quotes":[{"text":"Memo to extreme partisans: If you can't bring yourselves to love your enemies, can you at least learn to hate your friends?","author":"Walter Kirn","tags":["2011","2011-tuscon-shooting","enemies","friends","partisanship","politics","twitter"],"id":4435,"author_id":"Walter+Kirn"},{"text":"One upside of the heat. Kind of cool to see a cat pant.","author":"Jonah Goldberg","tags":["2011","2011-north-american-heat-wave","cats","heat","twitter"],"id":27889,"author_id":"Jonah+Goldberg"},{"text":"Kid 1: *examining my gorgeous strawberry and blueberry pies*: Wow, Mom, your pies don’t look awful this time.Me (Ilona): ...~A little later~Kid 2: *wandering into the kitchen*Kid 1: Hey, you’ve got to see these pies. *opening the stove*Kid 2: Wow. They are not ugly this time.Kid 1: I know, right?","author":"Ilona Andrews","tags":["2011","funny","ilona-andrews","ilona-andrews-website","kids","pie","thanksgiving"],"id":40222,"author_id":"Ilona+Andrews"},{"text":"The American people are fed up...With political posturing.' True, but also an example of political posturing.","author":"James Taranto","tags":["2011","2011-us-debt-ceiling-crisis","barack-obama","hypocrisy","politics","posturing","twitter"],"id":52496,"author_id":"James+Taranto"},{"text":"Shrouded as he was for a decade in an apparent cloak of anonymity and obscurity, Osama bin Laden was by no means an invisible man. He was ubiquitous and palpable, both in a physical and a cyber-spectral form, to the extent that his death took on something of the feel of an exorcism. It is satisfying to know that, before the end came, he had begun at least to guess at the magnitude of his 9/11 mistake. It is essential to remember that his most fanatical and militant deputy, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, did not just leave his corpse in Iraq but was isolated and repudiated even by the minority Sunnis on whose presumed behalf he spilled so much blood and wrought such hectic destruction. It is even more gratifying that bin Laden himself was exposed as an excrescence on the putrid body of a bankrupt and brutish state machine, and that he found himself quite unable to make any coherent comment on the tide—one hopes that it is a tide, rather than a mere wave—of demand for an accountable and secular form of civil society. There could not have been a finer affirmation of the force of life, so warmly and authentically counterposed to the hysterical celebration of death, and of that death-in-life that is experienced in the stultifications of theocracy, where womanhood and music and literature are stifled and young men mutated into robotic slaughterers.","author":"Christopher Hitchens","tags":["2011","abu-musab-al-zarqawi","al-qaeda","al-qaeda-in-iraq","arab-spring","death","death-of-osama-bin-laden","exorcism","feminism","iraq","islamism","life","literature","music","osama-bin-laden","pakistan","secularism","september-11-attacks","sunni-islam","terrorism","theocracy"],"id":101704,"author_id":"Christopher+Hitchens"},{"text":"To all the revolutionaries fighting to throw off the yoke of tyranny around the world: look at British democracy. Is that what you want?","author":"Andy Zaltzman","tags":["2011","arab-spring","britain","democracy","news-international-phone-hacking","revolution","tyranny"],"id":111406,"author_id":"Andy+Zaltzman"},{"text":"Given Loughner's obsession with meaninglessness and language, maybe Foucault \u0026 Derrida deserve some fault here, too.","author":"Walter Kirn","tags":["2011","2011-tuscon-shooting","blame-game","jacques-derrida","jared-lee-loughner","language","michel-foucault","twitter"],"id":118145,"author_id":"Walter+Kirn"},{"text":"After two months of horrible computer problems, I had concluded that the free Windows 10 installation was an unreliable lobotomized operating system as compared to Windows 7 on a 2011 HP G72-B50US laptop computer.","author":"Steven Magee","tags":["10","2011","7","after","compared","computer","concluded","free","horrible","hp","installation","laptop","lobotomized","months","operating","problems","system","unreliable","windows"],"id":132400,"author_id":"Steven+Magee"},{"text":"I think there needs to be a meeting to set an agenda for more meetings about meetings.","author":"Jonah Goldberg","tags":["2011","2011-us-debt-ceiling-crisis","meetings","politics","twitter","united-states"],"id":143334,"author_id":"Jonah+Goldberg"},{"text":"Incestuous, homogeneous fiefdoms of self-proclaimed expertise are always rank-closing and mutually self-defending, above all else.","author":"Glenn Greenwald","tags":["2011","2011-norway-attacks","consensus","elitism","expertise","experts","politics","twitter"],"id":151291,"author_id":"Glenn+Greenwald"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":35,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}