"The salient fact of American politics is that there are fifty to seventy million voters each of whom will volunteer to live, with their family, in a cardboard box under an overpass, and cook sparrows on an old curtain rod, if someone would only guarantee that the black/gay/Hispanic/liberal/etc family in the next box over doesn’t even have a curtain rod, or a sparrow to put on it."
@Nik3141 it's originally from a comment thread on political blog Balloon Juice, but the most readily linkable version of it is probably outsidetheinterzone.blogspot.com/2009/10/…
@GnomeSlice I listed to classical music and instrumental only. Almost no pop, although some rock. I can definately agree with "As with liner notes, this makes for more passive listening and shrinks the musical diet of most Americans down to a handful of heavily produced, industrial-scale hits."