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It’s a self-evident truth that Jim Carrey’s sketch on the NRA’s Charlton Heston is hilarious. Not one to understand humor–even their own 24-hour reel of it–FOX News responded in a characteristically vitriolic manner. And as you can see above, so did Carrey.
The Article: Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg Explains What’s Holding Women Back in NPR.
The Text: Of all the posters plastered around Facebook’s Silicon Valley headquarters — “Move Fast and Break Things,” “Done Is Better Than Perfect” and “Fail Harder” — Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg has a favorite: “What Would You Do If You Weren’t Afraid?”
“[It's] something that I think is really important and I think very motivating,” Sandberg tells NPR’s Renee Montagne. ” … I wrote in my book, what I would do if I wasn’t afraid is, I would speak out more on behalf of women.”
That book — Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead — is something of a feminist call to arms. In it, Sandberg, a 43-year-old former Google executive with two Harvard degrees, is calling on other women, as she puts it, to “lean in” and embrace success. And it has struck a chord. In the weeks leading up to the book’s publication on Monday, Sandberg, who has not been known to court controversy in the past, has been the subject of critical op-eds and cranky commentaries.
“We don’t need the anti-soda billionaire elitist’s reckless background checks, we need more guns.”
Bill Moyers has seen it all. Serving as White House press secretary for the Johnson administration and going on to become one of the preeminent faces of public television, Bill Moyers has decades worth of memorable and noteworthy material on everything media and politics. And so we present the best Bill Moyers quotes on democracy, politics, and a whole lot more:
Single Page View ↷For more of what Moyers has to say, be sure to visit his site. If you enjoy these Bill Moyers quotes, be sure to read Bill Hicks best quotes and the best Jon Stewart quotes ever.
The Article: What Being a Handyman Has Taught Me About Male Insecurity by Andy Hinds in The Atlantic.
The Text: When I was five years old, my two sisters, my parents, and I lived in a canvas tent on the side of a mountain in Western Montana for a month and a half. During that time, and with the help of our extended family, we built most of the cabin that would become our family vacation home. One of my jobs, which I took to with great enthusiasm, was to pound every nail that held the plywood flooring to the log beams on the second story. We barely got the cabin roofed-in in time for my dad to report to his new Army post, and, as I like to say, 40 years later we’re still putting the finishing touches on it.
In the course of his career, my dad was an infantry officer, a military attaché, a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, and an arms-reduction negotiator. At home, he was a wrench. Dude could fix anything.
Up until the time my parents were approaching retirement age, I can hardly recall a “professional” ever working on any of the houses they owned over the years. Dad built walls and sidewalks, installed woodstoves, laid tile, added electrical circuits and plumbing fixtures, fixed furnaces, and, at the cabin, ten years after it was first built, contrived an indoor plumbing system featuring an elaborate pump rig that sent the waste up the mountain to a septic tank. His only training in construction and mechanical work had been summer jobs on the railroad and growing up in a time and place where men didn’t own things they couldn’t fix. (My mom, a Montana farm kid, is no slouch with a hammer and saw, either.)
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