Quote of the Day for 2016-07-16

"If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination."

— Thomas de Quincey (1785-1859) "A Second Paper on Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts," Blackwood's Magazine (November 1839)

The Politics of Fear cover by Barry Blitt for The New Yorker (July 21, 2008)

Quote of the Day for 2015-10-18

"If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by my friends the murderers."

— Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr (1808-1890) Les Guêpes, volume 6, January 1849

Mug shot of Cameron Todd Willingham, who was convicted of murdering his three daughters by arson, and executed at the Texas State Penitentiary in Huntsville on February 17, 2004. Subsequent investigations concluded his trial and rejected appeals were a gross miscarriage of justice.

Quote of the Day for 2015-09-23

"Assassination is the extreme form of censorship."

— George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet, Preface

The blood stained lyrics to Shir La’Shalom (Song of Peace) found in Yitzhak Rabin's pocket, after his assassination by Yigal Amir at Kings of Israel Square in Tel Aviv, following a rally in support of the Oslo Peace Accord (November 4, 1995).

Quote of the Day for 2015-08-28

"[America is] just a nation of 220 million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns, and no qualms at all about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable."

— Hunter S. Thompson (1939-2005) Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72, September

President Nixon, while Vietnam War protesters interrupted a campaign rally at the Nassau Coliseum
on Long Island, NY, October 23, 1972. (Photograph by Michael Evans for The New York Times)