Alec Whitmore

“Then there are the psychic deliverables—the flattery, for starters. To members of the liberal class, the Democratic Party offers constant reminders that the technocratic order whose upper ranks they inhabit is rational and fair—that whether they work in software or derivative securities they are a deserving elite; creative, tolerant, enlightened. Though it is less tangible, the moral absolution in which Democrats deal is just as important. It seems to put their favorite constituents on the right side of every question, the right side of progress itself. It allows them to understand the war of our two parties as a kind of cosmic struggle between good and evil—a struggle in which they are on the side of light and justice, of course.”
― Thomas Frank, Listen, Liberal: Or, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People?

“IT WAS ONE OF those perfect autumn days so common in stories and so rare in the real world.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

“Even if Democrats do succeed, it won’t save us. While there are many great Democrats and many exceptions to the trends I have described in this book, by and large the story has been a disappointing one. We have surveyed this party’s thoughts and deeds from the Seventies to the present, we have watched them abandon whole classes and regions and industries, and we know now what the results have been. Their leadership faction has no intention of doing what the situation requires.”
― Thomas Frank, Listen, Liberal: Or, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People?

“The “ancestral sausage” goes back twenty thousand years to the Paleolithic era.”
― Jamie Loftus, Raw Dog: The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs