“The Mexican Government has just issued a Travel Advisory recommending Mexicans not to travel to Arizona on business or pleasure”
Mexican Ambassador to the U.S. Arturo Sarukhan on Twitter
Well, the Tucson Costcos will be less crowded this weekend.
Category: Best Line of the Day
Clever turns of phrase, special splashes of wit, provocative insight — all in a sentence or two.
Best definition of the day
“I mentioned a police state. A police state is one where any cop can pull you aside for any reason and demand papers. If you don’t have them, you’re guilty till proven innocent. The overwhelming majority of those ‘reasonably suspected’ of being illegal immigrants will be Mexican. What we have here, regardless of how it came about (and I agree the Feds have a terrible record in policing the Southern border), this is a police state directed at a minority, innocent and guilty. That’s the reality.”
Best line of the day, so far (and it’s 9PM)
“I’m glad I’ve already seen the Grand Canyon.
“Because I’m not going back to Arizona as long as it remains a police state, which is what the appalling anti-immigrant bill that Gov. Jan Brewer signed into law last week has turned it into.”
Linda Greenhouse, New York Times
It’s a column you should read.
‘The Simpsons’ Comes Through
Check it out. It’s just a cartoon.
Best line of the day
“NORFOLK, VIRGINIA (The Borowitz Report) – Eleven indicted Somali pirates dropped a bombshell in a U.S. court today, revealing that their entire piracy operation is a subsidiary of banking giant Goldman Sachs.”
There’s more.
Best line of the day
“Under the Fourth Amendment, police officers can’t simply stop people on the street and force them to answer questions. Instead, policemen can generally detain people only if there are specific and objective facts that suggest criminal activity is afoot.”
Salon report on constitutionality of Arizona immigration law
Best TMI line of the day
“OK, I’ve had my iPad for exactly 19 days today. Over that time, just about everyone who knows that I have the device has asked the same question: ‘So, how do you like it?’ The easy answer is that I love this device in a very unnatural way . . .”
Best line of the day
“The masses will be curious to know, for instance, how you became blinded to the very simple difference between right and wrong.”
Best line of the day
To this technology-ninny it’s clear
In my compromised 100th year,
That to read and to write
Are again within sight
Of this Apple iPad pioneer.
Best lines of the day
Timothy Egan has some things to add about the Roethlisberger business, including this:
What, exactly does it take for Nike to dump a jock? Dog-fighting will do it. After Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick pleaded guilty to running a felony dog-fighting ring, Nike took action. “We consider any cruelty to animals inhumane and unacceptable,” the company said at the time.
But cruelty to women is O.K. I don’t know how else to read the company’s inconsistent stand. Here is a guy who treats women like garbage, yet a company that boasts of having humane corporate values uses him as their front man. Ditto Tiger Woods. Same with Kobe Bryant after a rape allegation, a case that was later dropped.
Best line of the week
“Terrible seat, but who cares.”
Byron today.
Or as Jill says, “Only Byron could get on a plane, when thousands are stranded, after almost a week — and complain about the seat.”
“Will the lifeboats be seated according to class? I hope they aren’t too crowded.”
Best line of the day
“The California Newspaper Publishers Association recently invited me to drive down the coast on a Saturday to give a free lecture on how to charge for news on the web.”
Best line of the day
“And I have a sinking feeling that once again, the Obama team is going straight for the capillaries.”
Paul Krugman referring to the effort to pass financial reform.
Best volcano joke of the day
“It was the last wish of the Icelandic economy that its ashes be spread over Europe.”
Another:
“It would be a mean trick for a witch to tell a stranded passenger to just click her heels together and say the volcano’s name three times, and then she would be home.”
Best line of the day
“Many women who do not dress modestly … lead young men astray, corrupt their chastity and spread adultery in society, which increases earthquakes.”
Hojatoleslam Kazem Sedighi, a senior Iranian cleric, during Friday prayers in Tehran.
Best line of the day (and any day)
“Nature is boss, and she is pitiless.”
Best line of the day
“Last October, I saw a cartoon by Mike Peters in which a teacher asks a student to create a sentence that uses the verb ‘sacks,’ as in looting and pillaging. The student replies, ‘Goldman Sachs.’ ”
Paul Krugman beginning a column on Looters in Loafers.
Krugman concludes his column with:
“For the fact is that much of the financial industry has become a racket — a game in which a handful of people are lavishly paid to mislead and exploit consumers and investors. And if we don’t lower the boom on these practices, the racket will just go on.”
Best line of the day
“To say that he seemed high was an understatement.”
Ben Greenman : The New Yorker. The “he” being referred to was Sly Stone at Coachella last night.
Best line of the day
“It was just like any other wedding except the bride and groom weren’t there.”
The Guardian reporting on a couple stranded in Dubai while their wedding was in London.
Best lines of the day
“When you deliberately withhold adverse material information from customers, that is fraud. When you do this on a grand scale, the full weight of the law will come down on you and the people who supposedly supervised you. And if the weight of that law is no longer sufficient to deal with – and to prevent going forward – the latest forms of very old and reprehensible crimes, then it is again time to change the law.”
Simon Johnson, The Baseline Scenario writing about Goldman Sachs (and others).
Best line of the day
“Those of us who removed a Roethlisberger jersey from a child’s closet after the first allegations against him, last year, have had no reason to question that decision; quite to the contrary.”
Her essay is worthy of your time.
Best line of the day
“The play was written by Leonard Madrid, a native New Mexican, and is set on the front porch of a home in Portales, NM. (funny, there in the theater, they didn’t capture that certain ‘wind off the feed lot’ that I always associate with Portales.)”
Your line about the sopapillas almost made “best line” too, Karen, but I hoped people would follow the link and read it for themselves.
Best line of the day
ICELAND … – A gigantic ash cloud from an Icelandic volcano that blanketed Northern Europe on Thursday and paralyzed air travel across the continent has turned out to be part of the finale of the television series Lost, network officials confirmed today.
There’s more.
Best ‘other than that how did you like the book’ line of the day
“Mr. Martel’s new book, “Beatrice and Virgil,” unfortunately, is every bit as misconceived and offensive as his earlier book was fetching.”
Mr. Martel’s earlier book was Life of Pi.
Best line of the day
“There’s just nothing quite like watching a major world religion screw up on a level rarely seen outside the banking industry.”
Mary Elizabeth Williams — Slate
She continues:
“So hats off the Catholic Church, which keeps trotting out grumpy old men to say terrible things on a pretty constant basis these days.”
Ms. Williams has details of the latest attempt to dig the hole even deeper.