For an ordinary citizen, what is the common interaction you have with a police officer? When they pull you over for speeding, or when they write you a ticket for parking. The rest of the time is patrolling minority neighborhoods… — Ted Rall Copy Share Image
I was reading through all these NSA programs that Snowden has revealed, and one of the ones that fascinated me was that smart TVs can be used to look at you in your room. That is totally like the telescreen from 1984. It's not sort of like it, it's not a lot like it, it is it. And the ability… — Ted Rall Copy Share
What people don't seem to ever understand is that any infrastructure that exists under your regime, in your current government, will be appropriated and inherited by the next regime. I mean, the KGB came out of the NKVD which came out of the Tsarist version of the same thing. And now, the FSB operates out of the old KGB building… — Ted Rall Copy Share
“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… — Ted Rall Copy Share
I'm a better editorial cartoonist by default because so many editorial cartoonists out there are so awful. — Ted Rall Copy Share Image
“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.… — Ted Rall Copy Share
Imagine foreign troops sitting idly, laughing as hooligans trashed the Smithsonian, stole the gold from Fort Knox and burned down the Department of the… — Ted Rall Copy Share Image
I think Maus I is better than Maus II. The standard here is whether or not it's as good as a great book of… — Ted Rall Copy Share Image
When you have birds you stare at them a lot and their eyes are recessed on their head. When they look at something they… — Ted Rall Copy Share Image
The best thing about being a cartoonist is to walk into a bar or someone's apartment and they don't know you, but they've taped… — Ted Rall Copy Share Image
The experts who managed the original Marshall Plan say Afghanistan needs a commitment of at least $5 to $10 billion over 5 to 10… — Ted Rall Copy Share Image
Up until 1995, I still had a day job that I hated. I was still personally involved in things in the 90s. — Ted Rall Copy Share Image
