“Britney Spears flew to Mississippi this week to help her sister Jamie Lynn with her new baby. Britney says it’s really important that she spend time with the baby now — because soon it will be busy raising its own baby.”
Conan O’Brien
“I’m not here to say that the government is always right, but when the government tells you to do something, I’m sure you would all agree that I think you all recognize that is something you need to do.”
U.S. Senator Kit Bond (R-Nuremberg) quoted by Morningstar - Dow Jones & Company, Inc. on the FISA deal.
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“And while some are using the opportunity to point out the scary statistics and difficulties that accompany teen motherhood (and/or being born into the Spears family), we’re trying to look at the bright side.”
The post lists five babies of teenage mothers that did well, including Jack Nicholson, Bob Marley and Eric Clapton.
And how about NewMexiKen!? My mom was a teenager when I was born.
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“McCain said that Obama’s move to drop out of the system ’should be disturbing to all Americans’ and that he may decide to opt out, too. ”
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“I was going to buy a copy of The Power of Positive Thinking, and then I thought: What the hell good would that do?”
Ronnie Shakes
“Britney Spears’ sister gives birth to baby girl”
“In a recent interview, President Bush said that he might not be the last President Bush if his brother Jeb decides to run. Yeah, when he heard this, Jeb said, ‘Please stop reminding everyone we’re related.’”
Conan O’Brien
“This is ugliest stretch of road I know. And I am from New Mexico. I know from ugly roads.
Karen Fayeth from I-5 in central California.
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“As for Tiger’s knee pains at the U.S. Open? Armchair surgeons suspect it’s either an anterior cruciate or a rocco mediate.”
“The question in the NBA, and in life, isn’t whether or not you can shoot. The question is, can you get your shot?”
The late sportswriter Ralph Wiley in 2004. First posted here in 2004.
“I thought I was working for the Jedi Knights and in reality I was working for the Sith Lords.”
Fired U.S. attorney for New Mexico David Iglesias on The Daily Show. Quoted at New Mexico FBIHOP.
“There were no fewer than 1,004 mentions of Tiger’s knee surgery during the five days of coverage … but does anyone know what the surgery entailed? How come there was never any specific mention as to what kind of surgery he had?”
“I thought you had a high threshold for pain.”
The above was first reported here four years ago today. It was said to me.
“My wife and I had a fight this morning. I think it’s because the institution of marriage is weakened by California’s activist judges.”
“Fox News is hopeless; you might as well get angry at mildew.”
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“Lately, however, there always seems to be at least one food-safety crisis in the headlines — tainted spinach, poisonous peanut butter and, currently, the attack of the killer tomatoes.”
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“You can’t eat tomatoes because they’re tainted with deadly salmonella. Yeah, now listen to this. First, of course, we went through tainted lettuce. Now, tainted tomatoes. Who would have thought that the healthiest part of a B.L.T. would be the bacon?”
David Letterman
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“How resounding was the Celtics’ comeback from a 24-point deficit to beat the Lakers in Game 4?
“Cemetery workers swear they could smell cigar smoke wafting up from Red Auerbach’s grave.”
“Every day is a gift. But does it have to be a pair of socks?”
Tony Soprano, “The Ride,” Episode 74
“The laws and Constitution are designed to survive, and remain in force, in extraordinary times.”
Justice Anthony M. Kennedy writing for the Supreme Court in Boumediene v. Bush.
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“Of course, the boys have already been reading other books, but the truth is Calvin and Hobbes is the standard to which all other great literature is held.”
Testosterhome on her sons’ summer reading. She goes on to note that the boys will be required to report on their summer books — “I’m sure there will be ice cream or weapons involved in this equation as well.”
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“I don’t know if I would want him as vice president. He and I have the same strengths. But to serve in other capacities? Hell, yeah.”
John McCain talking about Dick Cheney in a 2006 interview with Cheney biographer Stephen Hayes, quoted at Politico.com.
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“Well, for the first time in history, the national average for gallon of gas is over $4 a gallon. In fact, today Dick Cheney was seen putting up his own ‘Mission Accomplished’ sign.”
Jay Leno
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“[Hillary Clinton] became a caricature: too smart, too strong, too assertive, too rational, too competent. Think how the young Harry Potter and his male friends initially reacted to Hermione Granger and you get the idea.”
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“Adding up the numbers, approximately 81 billion modern humans have lived altogether. For every person alive today, twelve have died. If people really go to heaven after death, then the afterworld is a crowded place.”
Steve Olson, Mapping Human History. First posted here four years ago today.
“Most people, he concluded, were selfish, greedy, unprincipled, venal, utterly irredeemable shit-eaters, but he’d also observed that these same people were highly sensitive to criticism.”
From Empire Falls by Richard Russo. First posted here three years ago today.
“If you spent as much time carefully thinking about the world’s problems as you waste dissing me and other liberals, perhaps you wouldn’t be so utterly, totally, irrevocably, and completely, wrong about everything.”
“You don’t spend your life fighting for women’s rights and then vote for Sen. McCain.”
St. Paul mayor and Clinton supporter (until Monday) Chris Coleman quoted by the MinnPost.
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“Barack Obama spending the evening at Hillary Clinton’s house. Agenda to include a pint of Ben & Jerry’s, a good cry, and a spirited pillowfight”
“They’re all over the ‘Hillary has 18 million voters’ bit, as if 18 million people were following her around like goslings.”
Functional Ambivalent; the “they” being the commentariat.
You gotta go read Tom’s whole post, but I can’t help excerpting this:
Listen: Obama doesn’t need her or her big money friends. He raised $300 million a hundred bucks at a time, signing up a couple of million small contributors. Lest you forget your history, that’s the kind of financial base Ronald Reagan built, that has carried Republicans to victory for 20 years. When Obama stops by to speak, lines form 10 blocks long. Hillary’s big-money loyalists aren’t going to stay out of this election. They’re not in the political money business because they think Hillary’s a doll. They’re in it because it buys them access and influence and status, and there’s not one of them who’s going to stay over at Hillary’s pity party when Obama’s rockin’ the house down the block. They go with the winner.
As for those 18 million voters, well, maybe there are a few who are going to vote for John McCain. Maybe they’re that angry. But here’s what they’re going to have to swallow: No comprehensive healthcare; war forever in Iraq; bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran; anti-abortion judges; and more tax cuts for rich people. When they go to the McCain dinners, they’re going to be seated next to people who don’t understand why we haven’t put Jesus’s image on the dollar bill.
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“I will not accept if nominated and will not serve if elected.”
Retired General William Tecumseh Sherman to the Republican national convention on this date 124 years ago. The convention nominated James G. Blaine, who lost to Grover Cleveland.
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“I never was moved by a candidate before. Not Ronald Reagan, not Bill Clinton. I never participated. But this guy is a once-in-a-century politician. This guy can change the world. You can’t meet him and walk away untouched.”
Anonymous entrepreneur at fund-raiser quoted by Andrew Tobias.
I’m telling you people, read Obama’s books — the autobiographical Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance and the more issue-oriented The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream.
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“An acre planted with corn can produce 18 gallons of oil a year; an acre of palm, 700 gallons; an acre of algae – the green slimy stuff – 20,000 gallons.”
Yeah, but do you get to drive a cool John Deere tractor planting algae?
“Politics is like driving. To go backward, put it in R. To go forward, put it in D.”
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“There is a lot of interesting information in this article. Some of it is even correct.”
digby commenting on some ABC political analysis.
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“Clinton Open to Being Obama’s Veep. I’m Open to Being the Detroit Tigers’ Second Baseman.”
“Window on American Airlines plane shatters, takes out engine shortly after takeoff. Passengers charged $15 ’skid-mark removal’ fee prior to boarding replacement plane”
“I should read. Reading is too hard for the dead of night. Reading has too many words in it.”
From a very amusing piece about insomnia by Jenny Allen in last week’s New Yorker.
[Michael Seidenberg] was very pleased, and it moved him to relate a story from the dark period, not too long ago, when he was selling books on the street. “Once, a couple stopped,” he recalled. “And the man asked his girlfriend, ‘Do you want a book?’ She said, ‘No, I already have a book.’ ”
From a brief item about Seidenberg in The New Yorker.
“[R]eckless initiatives like the Chrysler-Dodge-Jeep offer to subsidize gasoline for three years for people who buy its gas guzzlers are the moral equivalent of tobacco companies offering discounted cigarettes to teenagers.”
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