Ted Rall
Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ Author
Born
in Cambridge, Massachusetts, The United States
Website
Twitter
Genre
Member Since
September 2015
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Snowden
7 editions
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2015
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Bernie
6 editions
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2016
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Trump: A Graphic Biography
3 editions
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2016
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After We Kill You, We Will Welcome You Back as Honored Guests: Unembedded in Afghanistan
4 editions
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2014
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To Afghanistan and Back: A Graphic Travelogue
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19 editions
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2002
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Silk Road to Ruin: Is Central Asia the New Middle East?
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11 editions
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2006
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The Year of Loving Dangerously
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4 editions
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2009
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The Anti-American Manifesto
6 editions
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2010
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2024: A Graphic Novel
5 editions
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2001
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Francis, The People's Pope
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2018
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“Hail, Columbia! Home of the six inch cockroach and the stadium-sized lecture hall. A reservation for rich white people guarded by poor brown people in a sea of urban decay. Where nobody on the faculty has ever spent ten minutes in the freshman dorm, but everybody talks about humanism and compassion. They teach you that military people are scum, trash, the lowest of the low -- and then they assign Homer's ILIAD just to develop your sense of irony. Where else can you see three suicides a month dismissed as "slightly above average, but better than Smith or Brown?”
― The Year of Loving Dangerously
― The Year of Loving Dangerously
“I suppose I could have been nicer when I was at Columbia. I could have been polite, respectful, turned in my papers on time. Funny thing is, I knew a guy like that. English major. Loved to read. Never got in any trouble, just hung out in Butler Library reading poetry and English history. Ran into him the other day. Guy has three master's degrees, taught high school, even did a few years in the Marines. Know what he does today?
He makes $9.75 an hour as a librarian.
I was a jerk when I went to Columbia. But I was never a sucker.”
― The Year of Loving Dangerously
He makes $9.75 an hour as a librarian.
I was a jerk when I went to Columbia. But I was never a sucker.”
― The Year of Loving Dangerously
“What you read at Columbia is Plato's Republic and Homer's Iliad. What you learn at Columbia is that reading isn't education. Education is figuring out the hard way that at a school like Columbia, what you read isn't nearly as important as what you wear, how you look, and how much you know about sucking up to professors who really couldn't give a shit about whether some nameless, faceless kid in the 23rd row will work or starve after graduation.”
― The Year of Loving Dangerously
― The Year of Loving Dangerously
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