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> I envision a glorious, artisanal return to the bespoke backstabbing of yesteryear. If craft beer can do it, then so can we. — Annabel Crabb, Backstab all you like, but please do it in private [http://www.smh.com.au/comment/backstab-all-you-like--but-please-do-it-in-private-20160219-gmyia0.html] in The Age. Mmm. Beer.
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> Feminist criticism isn’t about ripping something to shreds or making others feel guilty for liking it. It’s simply about pointing out a specific creative weakness and then taking that a step further to explain the real-world social ramifications of that weakness, all in the hopes of dissuading
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> The human superpower: forgetting. If you remembered how things felt, you’d have stopped having wars, and stopped having babies. — The Doctor, ‘In the Forest of the Night'
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> This is a very exciting time for racists! — Michael Che, The Daily Show Podcast without Jon Stewart: Episode 3. Which is a really awesome podcast so far, if you’re a Daily Show fan.
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> It’s then that he issues the least scary command ever given by a Doctor Who monster: “Run down that machine as quickly as is safely possible. Sss.” As catchphrases go, it definitely lacks the snap of Exterminate. — Gary Gillatt reviews The Ice Warriors and shines a light on
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> If it’s your job to design a connector there are very few axes on which you can excel. And you would think it’s like: I want to be a good connector designer! What do you even have to think about except for these exact very issues? […] There’
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> Rinko, a long time ago I made a solemn promise. And that promise was that, some day, I would finally let you have your own shoe back. And now that you’ve long since outgrown it, here it is. – The Editing Room take on Pacific Rim [http://www.the-editing-room.
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> To you, I haven’t even been born yet… and to you, I’ve been dead a hundred billion years. Is my body out there somewhere, in the ground? But here we are, talking: so I am a ghost. To you, I’m a ghost. We’re all ghosts,
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> This is where the obesity-as-disease concept leads us—to a situation in which people demand that medicine shoulder the responsibility. Karen Hitchcock shares an honest and straightforward take on her experiences as a doctor dealing with obesity in The Monthly [http://www.themonthly.com.au/what-can-stop-obesity-fat-city-karen-hitchcock-7636] .
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> The sight of this wheelbarrow thus loaded, was entirely new to me. I could not help remarking its singularity, at the same time that I admired the simplicity of the invention. I even think, that in many cases such a barrow would be found much superior to ours. — Andreas
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> The real way that I became a model is that I won a genetic lottery. Cameron Russell, model—I get what I don’t deserve [http://us.cnn.com/2013/02/17/opinion/russell-model-genetic-lottery/index.html?hpt=hp_c2]
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> …it has now been revealed that communion wafers used in many leading Catholic cathedrals have been found to contain not only the body of Christ, but also the bodies of some of his apostles. Andy Zaltzman, The Bugle 224–Papal Proton Packs [https://soundcloud.com/the-bugle/bugle-224-papal-proton-packs]