“The Sierra Club has become little more than another corporate front group.”
— Tim Hermach, director of nonprofit Native Forest Council, on news that Sierra Club is renting its logo to bleach giant Clorox for promotion of a new line of “natural cleaning products.” (corporatecrimereporter.com, 3/26)
“Wow America, we have truly become a nation of self-absorbed retards.”
— Sgt. Ryan M. Wood, 22, blogging from Iraq on Myspace 5/26/07, about our apparent preoccupation with fast food and Brittany Spears. Wood was killed by an IED. (NY Times, 3/25)
“It’s the most beautiful word in the English language.”
— Screenwriter Diablo Cody, who went from being a stripper to writing the smash hit film Juno, on why she had the word “Yes” tattooed inside her left wrist. (Written By, 1/08)
“If I went over to a man’s house and there were books about life’s lessons learned from dogs, I would probably keep my clothes on.”
— Jessa Crispin, a blogger for the literary site Bookslut.com, on how we judge potential lovers by what they read. (NY Times, 3/30)