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Tuesday Open Thread 27 Aug 2013 | 04:00 pm

Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty. Lyndon B. Johnson Born August 27, 1908 More LBJ: The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man ...

Monday Open Thread 26 Aug 2013 | 04:00 pm

No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots. Barbara Ehrenreich Born August 26, 1941

Sunday Open Thread 25 Aug 2013 | 04:00 pm

[Commercial radio] is owned by one or two corporations now, and they're not in the music business. They're in the advertising business, ... So let's not kid ourselves. If you want to hear music, go bu...

Saturday Open Thread 24 Aug 2013 | 04:00 pm

I shouldn't be saying this - high treason, really - but I sometimes wonder if Americans aren't fooled by our accent into detecting brilliance that may not really be there. Stephen Fry Born August 24...

Freaky Friday Open Thread 23 Aug 2013 | 04:00 pm

I've seen it around the world, in the poorest countries and in countries riven with conflict, ... It is women who are the key to breaking out of poverty, breaking out of stagnation. ... It's women who...

Thursday Open Thread 22 Aug 2013 | 04:00 pm

I found myself wondering what a gay person in such a masculine-oriented society did - whether they fled to Denver or toughed it out. I began thinking about homophobia. In fact, the thing that destroye...

Wednesday Open Thread 21 Aug 2013 | 04:00 pm

But the idea that some day people would want to be able to interact and get stock quotes and talk with other people or all these different things, I just believed that was going to happen. Steve Case...

Tuesday Open Thread 20 Aug 2013 | 04:00 pm

Have you ever wondered why young people take to music like fish to water? Maybe it's because music is fun. Plain and simple. It opens up their minds to dream great dreams about where they can go and w...

Monday Open Thread 19 Aug 2013 | 04:00 pm

A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor. Ring Lardner...

Sunday Open Thread 18 Aug 2013 | 04:00 pm

Racism isn't born, folks, it's taught. I have a two-year-old son. You know what he hates? Naps! End of list. Denis Leary Born August 18, 1957

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