“The usual suspects have been attacking Obama for ‘demonizing’ insurance companies; but saying that people do terrible things isn’t demonization if they do, in fact, do terrible things.”
“We don’t know about you, but we’re ready to quit gossiping and watch golf as it’s meant to be watched—focusing on Tiger Woods 99.999% of the time and totally ignoring the rest of the field.”
“Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, Tiger Woods couldn’t have picked a more appropriate spot for his comeback than Augusta National Golf Club. After all, that place’s attitude toward women is even more retrograde than his is — or was, prior to his ongoing rehabilitation.”
“No Republican Senator is ever going to vote for the health care bill under any circumstances. It could have a rider in it mandating biblical readings up through the junior college level and you still couldn’t get even a very God-fearing Republican like Tom Coburn to vote for an Obama health care bill.”
“[Kentucky Coach John] Calipari is the only coach in NCAA history to bring to the Final Four two programs so utterly corrupt that neither of them officially exists in the tournament records any more.”
UMass had its 4-1 1996 NCAA Tournament record vacated.
Memphis had to vacate the entire 2007-08 season, including the NCAA Tournament and its standing as runner-up.
“But isn’t it convenient that once again it turns out that the problem isn’t us, and the fix is something that doesn’t require us to change our behavior or spend any money. It’s so simple: Fire the bad teachers, hire good ones from some undisclosed location, and hey, while we’re at it let’s cut taxes more. It’s the kind of comprehensive educational solution that could only come from a completely ignorant people.”
Veronica, tucking 6-year-old Sofie into bed after a loooong weekend: “I love you. You are my princess.”
Sofie: “I love you, too. You are my servant.”
“Very much more serious is the role of Joseph Ratzinger, before the church decided to make him supreme leader, in obstructing justice on a global scale. After his promotion to cardinal, he was put in charge of the so-called ‘Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith’ (formerly known as the Inquisition).”
But tell us what you really think, Hitch:
“Ratzinger himself may be banal, but his whole career has the stench of evil …”.
“College basketball fans have been waiting for this week, working on theatrical little coughs and performing Method actor-y massages of their temples in preparation to catch ‘the thing that’s going around’ in time for Thursday’s tip-off of the NCAA tournament’s first round. The first two rounds of the tournament remain one of the greatest and most sustained fan-rushes in sports.”
When I was working I often took Thursday and Friday afternoons of March Madness off — but vacation-time, of course, not “sick” leave.
“But trying to demonstrate facts to reporters is a waste of time.”
The Ad Contrarian in an blog post about some of the recent FALSE news reports about Toyota titled “The Prius Balloon Boy.”
Thanks to SinPantalones who had this on Twitter.
ALBUQUERQUE — With the season on the line in the final minute of one of the most thrilling, intense and improbable come-from-behind victories of the 2010 Girls State Basketball Championships, there was no time for jokes.
Unless you’re Lakeshia Padilla.
With around 8,000 screaming fans on the edge of their seats and eyes transfixed on The Pit floor, the imposing 6-foot-1 post presence of the second-seeded Santa Fe Indian School Lady Braves walked up to junior point guard Jenine Coriz and whispered something in her ear before a critical free throw with 58 seconds remaining in a Class AAA semifinal with No. 6 Lovington.
“I just told her to call 1-800-Everytime,” Padilla said. “Then she’ll make them every time.”
Coriz made the free throw and the Lady Braves went on to come from a 15-point deficit to defeat Lovington in the state 3AAA semi-final game. Last night SFIS defeated West Las Vegas in OT to win the 3AAA state championship.
“Although the Roman Catholic Church allowed Africans to be enslaved because they were presumed to have rejected Christianity, it forbade enslaving Indians because they were believed never to have heard of Christ. Nevertheless, the Spanish were allowed to enslave Indians who attacked them.”
From an article in The Santa Fe New Mexican exploring the book The Pueblo Revolt and the Mythology of Conquest: An Indigenous Archaeology of Contact
“Off to kid’s Honors Breakfast. Why is it never an Honors Happy Hour?”
“Mankind has always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much — the wheel, New York, wars, and so on — while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man — for precisely the same reasons.”
Douglas Adams, The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Adams was born on March 11, 1952. He died from a heart attack in 2001.
Perhaps the best line of the day ever around here, first posted six years ago.
While getting out of the car, the 3-year-old scooted into the driver’s seat. Told it was time to go, he replied, “Ok. I just wanted to call someone a jackass.”
“If Roethlisberger is at fault, the issues are entirely different. If he’s at fault, he has got to grow up.”
Peter King
“If Ben’s at fault, he’ll have to do a lot more than grow up — three to five in Reidsville, for starters.”
It’s weird enough living in a country where a man can legally own an arsenal of machine guns, but his neighbor growing a pot plant will send a team of DEA agents kicking his door in with a no-knock warrant. But this goes even beyond that. If I go online today to HaveNoLifeAndBetOnSports.com and bet fifty dollars on the Bucks against the Celtics tonight, I’m a criminal. But some gazillionaire firm in New York can legally bet against the United States of America in unlimited amounts in a trade that has nothing to do with anything, but a guess about how many other people will make the same bet.
Jesus, are we a weird country.
Taibbi is referring to credit default swaps now being sold that “insure” U.S. Treasury bonds.
“Yes, Avatar was a great technological achievement.
“So was Teflon.”
“[I]t wasn’t until I listened to Jeff Bridges’s acceptance speech that I realized how precisely autobiographical The Big Lebowski really was.”
“Even Oprah had to do it; needless to say, she did it with bullet-point briskness and efficacy, but still, it must the first time she has found herself in a lineup.”
Anthony Lane of The New Yorker in a critique of the Oscar show.
“The fact is that after a campaign that appealed so successfully to idealism, Obama hired a bunch of saboteurs of hope and change.
“Rahm [Emanuel] was simply their chief of staff.”
“The Rahm Emanuel that Obama hired is the poster child for the timid, pseudo-pragmatism that is inimical to the idealistic Obama agenda so many excited voters responded to last November. And it’s a pragmatism that is absolutely killing the Democratic Party in the long run, because American voters have an intrinsic distrust of politicians they see as tacking with the polls or shying away from a fight.”
“Every reader of ‘The Cat in the Hat’ will feel that the story revolves around a piece of withheld information: what private demons or desires compelled this mother to leave two young children at home all day, with the front door unlocked, under the supervision of a fish?”
Louis Menand, “Cat People” in The New Yorker (2002). Today is Theodor Geisel’s — aka Dr. Seuss — 106th birthday. Menand has a nice profile of the writer. Seuss was Geisel’s mother’s maiden name.
“A college class was told they had to write a short story in as few words as possible. The story must contain three components: (1) Religion, (2) Sexuality, and (3) Mystery. There was only one A paper in the entire class. In full: ‘Good God! I’m pregnant. I wonder who did it.’”
First posted here five years ago today.
“The internet has surpassed newspapers and radio in popularity as a news platform on a typical day and now ranks just behind TV.”
Pew Internet & American Life Project
- 78% of Americans say they get news from a local TV station
- 73% say they get news from a national network such as CBS or cable TV station such as CNN or Fox News
- 61% say they get some kind of news online
- 54% say they listen to a radio news program at home or in the car
- 50% say they read news in a local newspaper
- 17% say they read news in a national newspaper such as the New York Times or USA Today
“I’d like to tell you that the new month will provide respite from your inner turmoil, but I’m afraid not. This is the month when winter lingers past all sense, when Brutus gathers his courage, when madness descends on sports fans, when you think you’ll die if you have to wear your puffy coat one second longer.”
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