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[F]or the most part football these days is the opium of the people, not to speak of their crack cocaine. Its icon is the impeccably Tory, slavishly conformist Beckham. The Reds are no longer the Bolsh...

Terry Eagleton

[F]or the most part football these days is the opium of the people, not to speak of their crack cocaine. Its icon is the impeccably Tory, slavishly conformist Beckham. The Reds are no longer the Bolsh...

Tags: 2010, 2010 fifa world cup, bolsheviks, british petroleum, capitalism, conformists, david beckham, deepwater horizon oil spill, football, liverpool fc

Everybody is comparing the oil spill to Hurricane Katrina, but the real parallel could be the Iranian hostage crisis. In the late 1970s, the hostage crisis became a symbol of America's inability to ta...

David Brooks

Everybody is comparing the oil spill to Hurricane Katrina, but the real parallel could be the Iranian hostage crisis. In the late 1970s, the hostage crisis became a symbol of America's inability to ta...

Tags: deepwater horizon oil spill, hurricane katrina, iran hostage crisis, united states

In times of crisis, you get a public reaction that is incoherence on stilts. On the one hand, most people know that the government is not in the oil business. They don't want it in the oil business. T...

David Brooks

In times of crisis, you get a public reaction that is incoherence on stilts. On the one hand, most people know that the government is not in the oil business. They don't want it in the oil business. T...

Tags: deepwater horizon oil spill, emotion, obama, politics, vox populi

Some people are just quitters, man they just give up, and the rest of us are dreamers without any luck.

Danny Aspinall

Some people are just quitters, man they just give up, and the rest of us are dreamers without any luck.

Tags: deepwater horizon oil spill, failure, homosexuality, inspiration, revive the love spells

You know what happens when windmills collapse into the sea? A splash.

Bill Maher

You know what happens when windmills collapse into the sea? A splash.

Tags: deepwater horizon oil spill, environmental disaster, environmentalism, humour, renewable energy

Hey, the ubiquitous Leak-Cam is to 2010 as the bottom-of-the-screen news ticker was to late 2001: What you're seeing beneath the news anchor or talking head may not actually include any new informatio...

Jim Geraghty

Hey, the ubiquitous Leak-Cam is to 2010 as the bottom-of-the-screen news ticker was to late 2001: What you're seeing beneath the news anchor or talking head may not actually include any new informatio...

Tags: deepwater horizon oil spill, humour, news

There wasn't even enough meat to make proper fun of [....] I keep waiting for somebody else to come on TV, maybe a cabinet member, to read the real speech, the one that tells us ... I dunno ... stuff....

Stephen Green

There wasn't even enough meat to make proper fun of [....] I keep waiting for somebody else to come on TV, maybe a cabinet member, to read the real speech, the one that tells us ... I dunno ... stuff....

Tags: 2010, deepwater horizon oil spill, frats, obama, politics, sororities, speeches, united states