Tom

“The right-wingers want to stop the clock entirely, you know, and one of these times they’ll make it. Then the pendulum won’t come back at all. That’s what Orwell was talking about.”
― Timothy J. Culver, Ex Officio

“Margery Kempe was obviously an uncomfortable neighbor to have, like all those who cannot conceal the painfulness of life.”
― Barbara W. Tuchman, A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century

“The single biggest lesson of the whole Snowden fiasco is that America's own sloppiness made it vulnerable: whether to misguided whistleblowers, saboteurs or foreign spies is secondary. The intelligence agencies and their political and judicial overseers also need to do a much better job of explaining what they do and why.”
― Edward Lucas, The Snowden Operation: Inside the West's Greatest Intelligence Disaster

“I’m naturally kind of shy. But being a reporter”
― Thomas E. Ricks, Big Money, Small Town: A Ryan Tapia Novel