We used to want dynamic but simple things. They were either things we could get, or things we couldn't. Now we want things in between, things with consequences. Now we want things that can hurt us.
The selection of a Republican candidate for the presidency of this globalized and expansive empire is — and I mean this seriously — the greatest competition of idiocy and ignorance that has ever been.
Fidel Castro Calls Republican Field a ‘Competition of Idiocy’ - NYTimes (via brooklynmutt)