#use

If bloggers are to improve our public discourse - helping busy and usually uninformed people make sense of the world - it is necessary to use some sort of standard with which to judge their reliability. Perhaps the answer (strictly advisory) is a body of their peers. Perhaps not. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#answer #bloggers #body #busy #discourse

Whether people care enough about local news to pay for it is, sadly, an entirely different question than whether our democracy requires a strong watchdog function at the local level to ensure safeguards against abuse, chicanery, and outright dishonesty. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#abuse #against #care #chicanery #democracy

I would play football, because I love it. ↗

— Summer Altice

#football #i #i love #love #play

My intention was to enroll at McGill University but an unexpected series of events led me to study physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. ↗

— Sidney Altman

#events #institute #intention #led #massachusetts

International business may conduct its operations with scraps of paper, but the ink it uses is human blood. ↗

— Eric Ambler

#business #conduct #human #human blood #ink

We played one warm-up gig at this bar that was kinda like that bar in 'The Blues Brothers' with the chicken wire. This place called The Brick House, in Housatonic. I really can't believe we're going to play for people in New York City. I'm terrified, but it's a small enough room. But it's really just supposed to be for the fun of it. ↗

— Lauren Ambrose

#believe #blues #blues brothers #brick #brothers

In some causes silence is dangerous. ↗

— Saint Ambrose

#dangerous #silence #some

Because interrogations are intended to coerce confessions, interrogators feel themselves justified in using their coercive means. Consistency regarding the technique is not important; inducing anxiety and fear is the point. ↗

— Aldrich Ames

#because #coerce #coercive #confessions #consistency

His mouth had been used as a latrine by some small creature of the night, and then as its mausoleum. ↗

— Kingsley Amis

#creature #had #his #mouth #night

Our nation will have 50 percent less ability to do whatever our bidding is because the joint strike fighter program was canceled. There is nothing that is going to be a replacement besides the Joint Strike Fighter. ↗

— James F. Amos

#because #besides #bidding #canceled #fighter