#eric

Three centuries after the appearance of Franklin's 'Courant,' it no longer requires a dystopic imagination to wonder who will have the dubious distinction of publishing America's last genuine newspaper. Few believe that newspapers in their current printed form will survive. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#america #appearance #believe #centuries #current

To own the dominant, or only, newspaper in a mid-sized American city was, for many decades, a kind of license to print money. In the Internet age, however, no one has figured out how to rescue the newspaper in the United States or abroad. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#age #american #city #decades #dominant

The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American recently passed each other in opposite directions. ↗

— George Carlin

#george-carlin #intelligence #intelligence

Shoot, I must have lived such a doggoned sheltered life as a normal, independent American up there in the Last Frontier, schooled with only public education and a lowly state university degree, because obviously I haven't learned enough to dismiss common sense. ↗

— Sarah Palin

#common-sense #offshore-drilling #public-education #united-states #education

The Swendish queen— whose name I couldn’t pronounce to save my life ↗

— Kiera Cass

#life

Loneliness seems to have become the great American disease. ↗

— John Corry

#become #disease #great #great american #loneliness

I practice karate moves when I think nobody is watching. It’s all part of being a real American badass, I guess. Chicks dig it. I mean they would, if they ever looked and caught me in a moment of awesomeness.
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— Jarod Kintz

#badass #karate #life #moment-of-awesomeness #practice

I'm the one who will never let you die. And that's more, Ms. Lane, than anyone in your life has ever been able to say to you. ↗

— jericho barrons

#fever-series #mac #mackayla-lane #life

In terms of the revolution, I believe that the revolution will be a revolution of dispossessed people in this country: that's the Mexican American, the Puerto Rican American, the American Indian, and black people. ↗

— H. Rap Brown

#believe #black #country #dispossessed #i

Peace of mind is the meaning of life" -Talisa Santiago (Spirit Seeker) ↗

— Jamie Haden

#life