nuggetology

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7399587
NPR interview on Criminal of Poverty: Growing Up Homeless in America




“Gliberalism captivated upper-class liberals paralyzed by their material and social privilege on the one hand and their sympathies for the dispossessed on the other. It proved a dangerous overreaction to the uncomfortable premodern concept of noblesse oblige, the idea that, adapted for the modern era, privilege confers a responsibility to provide for social justice. Instead, gliberalism contended, privilege rendered untenable any critique of socially iniquitous impulses among the underclass.”

“TERROR AND GLIBERALISM: America's best bipartisan heads numbly nodding along.”by Spencer Ackerman New York Press Vol. 18 ,Issue 37 September 2005

                                                

“The reception our affection used to generate was violence and hatred,” she added. “What I’ve found in the last five years is that my girlfriend and I get smiles from straight couples, especially younger people. Now there’s almost this aggressive sense of ‘Let me tell you how terrific we think that is.’ ”

(A Kiss Too Far?: Could a gay couple who weren’t hired models get away with this in Manhattan?
The New York Times - By GUY TREBAY - February 18, 2007)

Science:
"The seduction of false precision"
-Duster

Robot:
A derivation of the Czech word robata, meaning forced labor.