Category: Best Line of the Day

First posted here six years ago today.

Yesterday was the first day of school at Harvey Milk High, the first gay high school in the country, that is if you don’t count the one in Fame. There were about a dozen protestors demonstrating in front of the school, yelling out good, Christian things like ‘God hates fags.’ To which the gay kids replied, ‘God hates your outfit.’ Personally, I’m against gay high schools; good-intentioned segregation is still segregation, and it’s wrong. But you have to wonder at the mental health of someone who would fly all the way from Topeka just to scream insults at a bunch of vulnerable kids.

Bill Maher

What’s the difference when you have a professor and a dog at your back door?

“When you let them in, the dog stops whining.”

— New Mexico State Professor Lowell Catlett

First posted here five years ago today.

“I, for one, am disappointed that President Obama did not address the remastered Beatles mono vs. stereo question last night.”

Molly Ivors

Yeah, what was it with all this health care talk?

“The people who hold up the signs, ‘Give me back my country,’ should put down their signs and learn something about our country.”

Bill Cosby on Twitter

“I don’t want our schools turned over to some socialist movement.”

The above quote comes from a “concerned parent” in Pearland, Texas about President Obama’s upcoming streaming education address.

[Any] willing volunteers to let concerned parent guy in on the well-known secret that the public school is inherently “socialist”? Along with our law enforcement, firefighting and road system?

Not to mention the military.

‘Burque Babble

“He also told us about the green-yellow-red behavior system and said that he won’t get any reds but we should expect a few yellows.”

That’s Mack’s mom reporting on Mack’s first day of kindergarten in 2006. Mack later said that it’s not that he might purposefully break a rule, it’s that you don’t always know the rules. Indeed. It’s difficult to go through kindergarten, or any other part of life, without a few yellows.

“Facing opposition to his health care reform proposals, President Barack Obama has decided to reach out to a key demographic: morons.”

Borowitz Report

“Did you know that aside from Norway and Luxembourg, the country that spends the most tax money on healthcare per capita is the United States?”

Eschaton

“I asked Ann, my wife, ‘Did you ever in your wildest dreams believe I would be running for President?’ She told me, ‘You weren’t in my wildest dreams.’”

Mitt Romney two years ago

I remember the first time Leta ever saw an episode of Sesame Street, I think she was maybe thirteen or fourteen months old. She had woken up really early one morning, and in an effort to let Jon get some sleep before heading into his office job I took her out to the living room and turned the television to one of the kid channels. And all it took was one peep out of Elmo and Leta had found religion. Thankfully it wasn’t one that required she wear pantyhose for three hours every Sunday morning.

Heather Armstrong (dooce)

Emily reports from Walt Disney World that she:

“is confused by the fact that there is lightning all over the place and yet there’s still 100 people in the two pools at our hotel. Our local lifeguards close the pools if a car’s brights flash and the trunk slams.”

“The hazards Americans treat as facts of life — the risk of losing your insurance, the risk that you won’t be able to afford necessary care, the chance that you’ll be financially ruined by medical costs — would be considered unthinkable in any other advanced nation.”

Paul Krugman from last year.