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Much will be made of Kamala Harris’ race and gender. Much will be made of the fact that she is not Donald Trump. Much emotion will surround her campaign. And then, whether she wins or loses, nothing much will change. You won’t be able to tell by looking at the machinery of the empire who took office in January. Its behavior will remain the same. -- Caitlin Johnstone, on Joe Biden's leaving the presidential race and his decision to endorse Kamala Harris .

 "As I’m sure many can understand, my thoughts about Ken Starr bring up complicated feelings. But of more importance, is that I imagine it’s a painful loss for those who love him. " - Monica Lewinsky, on the death of Ken Starr . 

"We’re in the post-antibiotic era. ‘There are patients for whom we have no therapy, and we are literally in a position of having a patient in a bed who has an infection, something that five years ago even we could have treated, but now we can’t." -- Dr Arjun Srinivasan, who says that we are at the end of the Antibiotic Era .

"Making marriage your goal (instead of, say, happiness! Or compatibility!) is like saving up all your money to buy a really expensive lottery ticket." -- Linday West, in this Jezebel post .

"The problem the Big Two have isn't wanting to make money, it's how they're going about doing it. The current business model from Marvel and DC isn't working--the highest selling books are hitting maybe 200,000. Throw in Comixology and piracy and maybe 400,000 people read the MOST popular books. Superhero comics are overpriced, too often shallow, and cannot seem to break out of the current trend towards irrelevance. The entire business model needs an overhaul, but the caterwauling of the direct market prevents that. Superman, Spiderman, Batman? They don't need comics. They're cultural icons with multiple films, cartoons, video games, and a gigaton or two of merchandise. If the industry failed today, then Warner Bros. and Disney still wouldn't have any trouble using these characters to make billions. But independent writers, smaller publishers, and characters that don't have the mainstream recognition? They need a comics industry. Scott...

Fathom the irony: the man who beats up Mexicans, had a school teaching how to beat/kill Mexicans & 'protected the border' of AZ and Mexico. ..fled TO Mexico with the teen girl he was previously arrested for iacts of pedophilia last spring. AZ Start news only talks of him as "former coach" . . not as a loud, proud, Minuteman for some strange reason.  " Sahar In the Morning ," referencing this C&L post.