I’ve been running into some awesome quotes and stuff lately, so I thought I’d share a few.

Steve Faber from his article in Script Magazine called Mining for Real Comedy in a Techno-Virtual Lexicon Pit:

The “global economy,” a term contextualized to suggest economic freedom, fairness in the trade and exchange of commodities, a syntactical symbol of what we as a nation stand for, is in fact a colloquialism meaning “my sneakers were made in the South Pacific by a 6 year-old child who eats once a week.”

Arlie Hochschild from his article in The New York Times called The State of Families, Class and Culture:

In survey after survey, Americans show up as valuing marriage more than people almost anywhere else. Yet at the same time we have the highest divorce — and romantic breakup — rate in the world… Children born of married parents in America face a higher risk of seeing them break up than children born of unmarried parents in Sweden… The culprit is not the absence of family values, I believe, but a continual state of unconscious immersion in a market turnover culture. It is this that sets us apart from a more stable Europe.

Not a quote, but if you’ve got a little under and hour and want to see something really cool and hopeful, Rick Steves goes to Iran.

And in case you want to see something less hopeful… you know it’s bad when John Stewart can’t make it all funny: Rape-Nuts.

A totally random new book technology thing called Vook that I’d dying to try. And for $6.99? I guess that’s cheaper than death.

And finally, save Dollhouse! Catch up on hulu.com and keep tuning in!