“I think it’s sweet that B&N have decided to support independent comic retailers”
- Geoffrey Brent on Twitter, in response to Barnes & Noble pulling all DC comics from their shelves after DC signed a deal with Kindle.
“At the very least, think of fisting in a sex-positive way. Even if it’s not your thing, know that for some people, it’s a sexual act that brings pleasure. Now who’d want to censor that?”
- Jiz Lee, in a blog post decrying the censorship of vaginal fisting in DVDs and Video on Demand sites, and declaring October 21 International Fisting Day. I’ll be participating by posting my thoughts on the act on the 21st, and encourage you to join in.
“You see, we’re playing no-limit world-level death chess… and he’s the only other grandmaster around.”
- The Riddler explaining himself, as written by Christopher Bird in an incredibly clever and frustrating comic with a hidden riddle.
“If a girl is raped and she’s above 5, then it’s the way she was dressed. But we’ve had a girl of 2-and-a-half months who was raped. Was it the way her mom put her diaper on?”
- Amie Kandeh of the International Rescue Committee in Sierra Leone, as quoted by Nicholas D. Kristof in his NYTimes column, “In this Rape Center, the Patient was 3.”
“[W]e have to be careful not to allow this to get any legitimacy [...] I’m taking this seriously in that I’m old enough to remember what happened in the 1960s when the left-wing took to the streets and somehow the media glorified them and it ended up shaping policy [...] We can’t allow that to happen.”
- Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.) giving Occupy Wall Street legitimacy on the Laura Ingraham radio show.
