Category: Best Line of the Day

Clever turns of phrase, special splashes of wit, provocative insight — all in a sentence or two.

Best line of the day

“I ruled Snyder an asshole and gave him 4,999 points, which I calculated as the highest score a non-violent asshole who is not George Will can receive.”

Taibblog | Matt Taibbi on Politics and the Economy

Over the course of the last weeks the Supreme Court of Assholedom has considered several pressing cases, and the deliberations have been fierce. Responding among other things to popular demand that the Court consider routine behaviors as well as the characters of major public figures, we delved into a few routine matters intended to provide guidance to the difficult question of how all of us can avoid being assholes in our daily lives.

Among those considered in addition to Snyder — Rahm Emanuel and Elton John; also the key issue of whether a person can look like an asshole.

Best lines ever on a March 4th

“With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.”

Abraham Lincoln, March 4, 1865

“So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself — nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.”

Franklin D. Roosevelt, March 4, 1933

Nice

“A ruling from Britain’s high court found that a Pentecostal Christian couple’s belief that homosexuality is morally wrong could be used as a factor in deciding whether they can care for foster children.”

CBS News

“[Illinois] State officials are investigating whether religious agencies that receive public funds to license foster care parents are breaking anti-discrimination laws if they turn away openly gay parents.”

Chicago Tribune.com

Above via pourmecoffee on Twitter

Best lines R us (and more)

“So if trains represent soulless collectivism, count me in.”

Paul Krugman responding to the increasingly irrelevant George Will.
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“Newt Gingrich is forming exploratory committee to find support for his presidential run. Work involves time travel.”

Twitter / pourmecoffee
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“You don’t see it coming. One day life is normal, and the next its off the cliffside.”

Swimming in Quicksand on learning she has breast cancer.
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A great photo of San Agustin Church, Belchite.
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An interesting look at The King’s Speech from Amy Davidson including video of the Princess’s speech in 1940 and her farewell to her father in 1952.
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And a fun Defense of Frank Burns by our very own Karen.

Best line most days

“The most valuable lesson I learned from the year I spent in Washington…was the extent to which senior government figures have absolutely no idea what they’re talking about.”

Paul Krugman

First posted here two years ago today. Politics doesn’t attract the best and the brightest. It attracts the most emotionally needy.

Best lines of the day

NEW YORK … – In what many are calling a milestone in cable news history, Jesus and Satan appeared on CNN today in a brief two-minute segment.

The segment, a debate over Good versus Evil moderated by CNN host Brooke Baldwin, was believed to be the first joint appearance ever by Jesus and his arch-nemesis on a cable news program.

“We were first approached by Jesus’ people who said He would be interested in coming on,” Ms. Baldwin said.  “But then we thought it would be important to put Satan on with Him, for balance.”

Go read the rest — all the way to end — at the Borowitz Report.