REWIND - A Week of Quotes & Cartoons

SUNDAY

Quote of the Day
January 1, 2012

'The money has metastasized dramatically and as Emerson
said, "Money often costs too much." Athletic
departments have now become a moral dead-zone. For
winning college football programs, the amount of cash
flowing in the system is staggering. For mediocre and
losing college football programs, the sport is
bankrupting athletic departments, but they spend more
with the hope that a winning team will cover all
losses. Our schools are being sold on margin right
under our noses and I'm done with it. Until the
criminal cartel that is the NCAA is finally made a
relic of history; until the rancid BCS system is no
more; until coaches are no longer the highest paid and
most powerful people on campus; until the NFL funds
it's own damn minor league and stops outsourcing this
task to our universities, until all of these things
happen, I'm done and I hope I'm not alone. Unless we
boycott sham amateurism and indentured servitude
masquerading as sport, we will never reclaim sports.'

Dave Zirin, author of "The John Carlos Story"
(Haymarket) and just made the new documentary
"Not Just a Game."

Edge of Sports
The Nation
December 31, 2011
http://tinyurl.com/7gmxf4o

Toon of the Day
http://tinyurl.com/7zqycl3
Paymasters
Jeff Danziger

MONDAY

Quote of the Day
January 2, 2011

'The last 20 years of Internet policy have been dominated
by the copyright war, but the war turns out only to have
been a skirmish. The coming century will be dominated by
war against the general purpose computer, and the stakes
are the freedom, fortune and privacy of the entire human
race.

'The problem is twofold: first, there is no known
general-purpose computer that can execute all the
programs we can think of except the naughty ones;
second, general-purpose computers have replaced every
other device in our world. There are no airplanes, only
computers that fly. There are no cars, only computers we
sit in. There are no hearing aids, only computers we put
in our ears. There are no 3D printers, only computers
that drive peripherals. There are no radios, only
computers with fast ADCs and DACs and phased-array
antennas. Consequently anything you do to "secure"
anything with a computer in it ends up undermining the
capabilities and security of every other corner of
modern human society.'

Cory Doctorow
December 27, 2011
http://tinyurl.com/bv3dlxp

Toon of the Day
http://tinyurl.com/8xtv2a8
Excited Iowa
Manny Francisco

TUESDAY

Quote of the Day
January 3, 2012

'The Iowa caucus, let's face it, marks the beginning of
a long, rigidly-controlled, carefully choreographed
process that is really designed to do two things: weed
out dangerous minority opinions, and award power to the
candidate who least offends the public while he goes
about his primary job of energetically representing
establishment interests.'

Matt Taibbi
Rolling Stone
January 3, 2012
http://tinyurl.com/83ecbzm

Toon of the Day
http://tinyurl.com/78zzrse
Opportunity
Bendib

WEDNESDAY

Quote of the Day
January 4, 2012

'One of the things I will talk about, that no president
has talked about before, is I think the dangers of
contraception in this country. It's not okay. It's a
license to do things in a sexual realm that is counter
to how things are supposed to be.'

Presidential Candidate Rick Santorum
On ABC New January 2.
January 4, 2012
http://tinyurl.com/6uadtxx

Toon of the Day
http://tinyurl.com/89x7dvk
Conclusion
Pat Oliphant

THURSDAY

Quote of the Day
January 5, 2012

'Rather than answering the call for a credible right-
of-centre, pro-business party to provide independents,
including this newspaper, with a choice in November, it
is saddling its candidate with a set of ideas that are
cranky, extreme and backward-looking.'

Editorial
The Economist
December 31, 2011
http://tinyurl.com/c7kw8wp

Toon of the Day
http://tinyurl.com/78sbza6
Look What I Found
Signe Wilkinson

FRIDAY

Quote of the Day
January 6, 2011

'The Iowa caucuses are a reminder that Romney and
candidates for the Republican presidential nomination
are oblivious to the challenges facing working and
middle-class families. Instead, the caucuses confirm
fears that the Republican Party continues to move
farther and farther to the right.

'Touting himself as a candidate of 'steadiness and
constancy," Romney has proven steady and constant only
when it comes to standing up for corporate America at
the expense of working people. What's worse, at a time
when we should unite as Americans to get our country
back on track, Romney and the other GOP candidates'
message to working people is simply: "you're on your
own."

'It's time for candidates and officeholders to put the
needs of the 99 percent above extreme political
ideology.'

Mary Kay Henry, president of the
Service Employees
International Union (SEIU)
January 4, 2011
http://tinyurl.com/7ecrk26

Toon of the Day
http://tinyurl.com/7a8947b'
Defense Cuts
Pat Bagley - Salt Lake Tribune

SATURDAY

Quote of the Day
January 7, 2011

'Ironically, when Republicans in 2009 and 2010
successfully opposed the Employee Free Choice Act,
which would have enabled workers to unionize by
submitting signed cards and foregoing a board-
supervised election, they argued that such elections
were essential to democratic industrial relations. Now,
however, they support bringing the operations of the
board that runs those elections to a halt by declining
to staff it.

'As I've written before, the Republicans' policy is one
of agency-cide-the killing of a federal agency they
don't like by refusing to confirm the appointments
required to make it run. It's a back-door way to repeal
federal law establishing such agencies, a course the
GOP has taken precisely because it lacks the votes to
dis-establish them. By making his recess appointments
today, Obama hasn't, as Republicans allege, arrogated
congressional power to himself. Rather, he's restored
the right of majorities that enact legislation not to
have that legislation negated by congressional
minorities. He's also sending one more signal that the
days of his accommodating Republican rejectionists are
over.'

Harold Meyerson
editor
American Prospect
January 4, 2011
http://tinyurl.com/7u9wm4g

Toon of the Day
http://tinyurl.com/829erfd
Traditional Marriage
Margulies

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