“And I noticed that all players in MLB were paying tribute to Michael Jackson by wearing one glove.”
Flip Flop Fly Ball, which is a great site, full of odd, but interesting graphics about baseball.
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, so far
“The boys are so immature.”
The 16-year-old niece of my friend Donna
Hold that thought about the other sex for about 70 years dear, it will serve you well.
Best line of the day
“Wiser and older people tell you that the passions of your youth will dry up and that a more sere and autumnal condition will overtake you as maturity advances, but the thought of the Nixon gang in the White House still infuses me with a pure and undiluted hatred and makes me consider throwing up things that I don’t even remember having eaten.”
Leonard Cohen line of the day
If it be your will
That a voice be true
From this broken hill
I will sing to you
From this broken hill
All your praises they shall ring
If it be your will
To let me sing
Leonard Cohen, “If It Be Your Will”
Leonard Cohen line of the day
I’m sentimental, if you know what I mean
I love the country but I can’t stand the scene.
And I’m neither left or right
I’m just staying home tonight,
getting lost in that hopeless little screen.
But I’m stubborn as those garbage bags
that time cannot decay,
I’m junk but I’m still holding up
this little wild bouquet:
Democracy is coming to the U.S.A.
Leonard Cohen, “Democracy”
Best analogy line of the day
“The new Porsche Panamera is the best-handling big sedan in the world, which I grant is a little like being the smartest kid on the Arizona State football team or the most chaste governor of South Carolina.”
Dan Neil reviews the 4-door Porsche
“What is a Porsche? If you’ve spent much time in a Boxster, Cayman or 911 Carrera, new or old, you know the feeling of these cars: cold-rolled and heat-tempered, hard and light, nap of the Earth, edgy and reactive, ineffably masculine, a disposition that is to other sports cars what Dexedrine is to Geritol.”
He doesn’t really like it, but he did get it up to 180 mph.
Best not-quite-the-word-you-thought-it-was line of the day
“The tension was palatable.”
I’m thinking palpable.
From an interesting and well-done article in the Santa Fe New Mexican about the 38th national gathering of the Rainbow Family of Living Light. This year it’s near Cuba, New Mexico; between 10,000 and 12,000 people are expected.
“The Rainbow Family calls July 4 interdependence day.”
Despite my jab, a very good article.
Best epiphanic line of the day
“I had to take an oath, and part of the oath was that I couldn’t eat Mexican food. That’s when red flags went up all over for me. That seemed like prejudice.”
Merrill Metzger, formerly of Minuteman American Defense
UPDATE: Debby, official sister of NewMexiKen, and one-time resident of Arivaca, reports after reading the article:
Junior was not a drug dealer and did not traffic in “narcotics” as those people imagined. He had an arrest for pot when he was 19, which hardly qualifies. He was a dad, though, so he quit any of that activity years ago. Yes, he had nice vehicles and money, which may have given the killers the impression that he must be a dealer. But, just because a Mexican on the border has money, doesn’t mean he’s running drugs. (They never mention in the articles that the people didn’t find any drugs or money. I imagine the cops looked, too, as long as they were in there.) In reality, Junior ran a feed store in a small agricultural town, so he did well enough, especially considering that he lived in the same family place his whole life, and there was no big mortgage to pay or anything. His money was his own, not spent on high monthly bills, so he could afford nice vehicles. I actually knew his grandfather, the one in the article who is a good soul, and [my son] went to elementary school with Junior. [My son’s fiancée] even knew the murdered daughter from activities at the community center. It’s rocked the town, but it’s hardly the first occasion of violence down there–just the the one with the most national coverage because of the lunatics who perpetrated the violence.
Leonard Cohen line of the day
Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack in everything
That’s how the light gets in
Leonard Cohen, “Anthem”
Best line of the day
“As the father of daughter who’s in high school, I find [the Redding ruling] a blessed relief. As a lover of Amendments IV and V, and an observer of the current Supreme Court, I find it damned near miraculous. As a longtime observer of Clarence Thomas, I continue to find him pretty godawfully revolting.”
‘When I look back on the Bush years, I think of the lies. There were so many.’
“I started my column in January 2004, and one dominant theme quickly emerged: That George W. Bush was truly the proverbial emperor with no clothes. In the days and weeks after the 9/11 terror attacks, the nation, including the media, vested him with abilities he didn’t have and credibility he didn’t deserve.”
Dan Froomkin’s last column for The Washington Post
Here’s the link to follow Froomkin going forward.
Best line of the day, so far
The number of new applicants for unemployment benefits jumped to 542,000, the highest since 1992. What do you think?
Thomas Belew,
Systems Analyst
“I hope the problem does not reach previously unscathed sectors, such as the sixth floor of the Thompson Center, cubicle 17.”
Too big, but this one can fail
BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s top economic planning agency is likely to reject Sichuan Tengzhong’s bid to buy the Hummer brand from bankrupt General Motors Corp, state radio reported on Thursday.
. . .Besides, Hummer, as an expensive, gas-guzzling sports utility vehicle, would not fit in with the government’s policy of encouraging energy-efficient vehicles, the radio said.
Leonard Cohen line of the day
Well my friends are gone and my hair is grey
I ache in the places where I used to play
Leonard Cohen, “Tower of Song”
Best line of last night
“You guys remember Dick Cheney? Vice President for eight years? Listen to this — and by all means try to stay in your seats when you hear the news. Don’t be rushing out to bookstores. He’s written a memoir about his life. Not just a memoir, a thousand pages! It’s a great book. You can actually use it to stand on to reach a better book.”
David Letterman
Leonard Cohen line of the day
[T]he place is dead as Heaven on a Saturday night
Leonard Cohen, “Closing Time”
Best line of the day
“Sorry to hear about your back. You should try to get younger.”
Tom Johnson (formerly Functional Ambivalent)
Best line of the day
CORRECTION: The other day this blog referred to right-wingers recklessly calling Obama weak for his careful handling of the Iranian crisis as “clowns.” In fact, they should have been called “dangerous clowns.” Best Defense regrets the error.
The Real Nixon
“There are times when an abortion is necessary. I know that. When you have a black and a white. Or a rape.”
Best redux line of the day
“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
Golf line of the morning
“Tiger made two double bogeys in the first round last year at Torrey Pines and still won.”
Dan Jenkins on Tiger’s two double bogeys in round one this year (+4 for the first round).
Best line of the day on economics
“No.”
Robert Reich answering the question: Does the Obama Plan for Reforming Wall Street Measure Up?
Best U.S. Open line of the day
“Play was just suspended for the day. There’s so much water on the 18th hole that Michael Phelps couldn’t par it.”
Jenkins also had this: “Five things that can ruin an Open: Weather, traffic, Jack Fleck, Steve Jones and power-hungry volunteers manning the crosswalks.”
One, two and five apply to just about any event.
Best line of the day, so far
“Anyone else out there find himself doubled over laughing after reading Goldman, Sachs chief Lloyd Blankfein’s ‘apology’ for his bank’s behavior leading up to the financial crisis? Has an act of contrition ever in history been more worthless and insincere? Even Gary Ridgway did a better job of sounding genuinely sorry at his sentencing hearing — and he was a guy who had sex with dead prostitutes because it was cheaper than paying live ones.”
Blankfein’s apology: “While we regret that we participated in the market euphoria and failed to raise a responsible voice, we are proud of the way our firm managed the risk it assumed on behalf of our client before and during the financial crisis.”
Taibbi deconstructs it, phrase by phrase.
Best line of the day, so far
“If Mr. Obama hopes to create a regulatory environment that stands for another six decades, he is going to have to do what Roosevelt did once upon a time. He is going to have make some bankers mad.”