“I’m always amazed that something as great as The New Yorker can be had for a buck an issue when people routinely pay $4 for burnt coffee, $10 for crappy movies, and $12 for -tini drinks.”
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
“Until now we’d been led to believe that the people in the highest reaches of the White House, the Defense Department, the Justice Department were either stupid enough (Gonzales) or venal enough (Rumsfeld) or crazy enough (Cheney) …”
Well, duh, line of the day
“According to a study…college students who use Facebook have lower GPA’s and devote less time to studying than other students.”
[Any posting today is strictly in commemoration of Jack Nicholson’s birthday. He’s 72. Oh, and Earth Day. It’s 39.]
Best line of the day
“Call it the Ticketmaster strategy: you can do anything you like once everybody hates you.”
Felix Salmon writing about when banks have no reputation left to lose.
You could also call it the Comcast strategy, the Best Buy strategy . . .
Best line of 2007, so far
Where’s the voting booth?
I am not entirely a fool. I recognize a campaign book when I read one. Even so, this is a remarkable person. I can’t say he’d be a excellent president or even a good one. I can say he’d be a positive one.
Me, two years ago today after reading Barack Obama’s The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
Best line of this or any day
“McDonalds adds Citigroup stock to its $1 menu!”
Found at Calculated Risk
Best line of the day, so far
“But when it comes to stupid financial decisions to vent about, I’m sticking with Alan Greenspan.”
Gail Collins in a column title “The Rant List.”
Best two lines of the day, so far
“Percentage of Americans who believe marijuana ought to be legalized: 41 percent.”
“Percentage of Americans who approve of the Republican Party: 31 percent.”
Best line of the day, so far
“The road to economic hell is paved with good intentions and bad banks.”
Simon Johnson writing about the banks and recovery in “Confusion, Tunneling, And Looting.”
NewMexiKen is beginning to think that Treasury secretary Geithner is dull-witted enough to have just screwed up by mistake on his income taxes.
Best line of the day, so far
“David Letterman compared [Limbaugh] to an Eastern European gangster. But he looked more like a bouncer at a strip club who spent all his tips on one bad outfit.”
Timothy Egan in a very good analysis of the nation’s clown.
Best line of the day, so far
“We have nothing to fear but fear itself, plus asteroid impacts, mutant airborne Ebola, runaway robotic sentience, and the Earth being transformed by collider-generated strangelets into an undifferentiated gray goo (to paraphrase FDR).”
Best line of the day, so far
“Every plan we’ve heard from Treasury amounts to the same thing — an attempt to socialize the losses while privatizing the gains.”
Hard to call it best, but it’s a line of the day alright
“I’ve been joking for some time that the Dow will probably hit rock bottom at about 3600 on or around September 20 of this year. The reason? That’ll be the 10th anniversary of the publication of “Dow 36,000.” Hey, the market has to rock bottom somewhere. No one has any better idea.”
Misquote of the day
“We love and revere our founding documents, the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. [Applause] We believe that the preamble to the Constitution contains an inarguable truth that we are all endowed by our creator with certain inalienable rights, among them life. [Applause] Liberty, Freedom. [Applause] And the pursuit of happiness. [Applause]”
Rush Limbaugh
Of course, the Constitution says no such thing. The Declaration of Independence does, but even then Limbaugh didn’t get it right. The rights in the Declaration are unalienable, not “inalienable.” And “freedom” is not mentioned as one of those unalienable rights.
The Huffington Post has the story.
Best line of the day, so far
“What costs more — a spark plug or a share of General Motors? A Sunday New York Times or a share of the newspaper company? A General Electric toaster or a share of GE?”
Best line of the afternoon
CBS has picked up a reality show with the working title Arranged Marriage, a program in which contestants’ spouses are selected by friends and family, and the married couples’ lives are then filmed. What do you think?
James Varana,
Service Associate
“That’s disgusting. They are ruining the sanctity of reality TV shows.”
Best line of the day, so far
“iTunes displays information based on each music file’s tag information (artist, title, release date, etc.), which often comes from online databases if you’ve ripped CDs to play on your iPod. The only problem is that some of the thoughtful users who have kindly contributed to the databases are, well, morons …”
Randy A. Salas in Make iTunes and iPod classical companions.
Link via dangerousmeta!.
Best line of the day way back then
Shortly after WWII, an American went to visit Picasso in his Paris studio and asked, “How does it feel to be Picasso, the master of the art?” The artist replied, “Give me a dollar bill.” The American complied, and Picasso signed his name on it. “There, that dollar is now worth $500. That’s how it feels to be Picasso.”
Found at Altercation and first posted here three years ago.
Best line of the day
“So if excess cost growth in health care can be brought under control, the entitlement problem is manageable. If not, even savage cuts in Social Security will make little difference.”
Thanks to Av for the pointer.
Best line of the day about last night, so far
“In the Best Actor category, we might also have learned a thing or two last night. Namely, it probably doesn’t help to be a huge jackass (like Mickey Rourke) to all of your peers when those peers are responsible for deciding whether you receive a major, life-altering award.”
Best allegory of the day
Which sounds … not irrational. But when you think of a bad bank, what do you imagine?
You walk into the lobby decorated with portraits of Bernie Madoff, past a row of tellers who are not giving out any money because they are all too busy planning to have octuplets or adopting a chimpanzee as a family member. The executive suite is empty because everybody has gone off on his or her own personal corporate jet. To lunch. Which would consist only of products made with peanut butter. And the bad bank would, of course, have a corporate softball team that was open only to employees who took steroids on a regular basis.
Best line of the day, so far
“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.”
Politics is all performance art.
Best line of the day, so far
“Fiske and her co-scientists reached the obvious and unsurprising conclusion that women are better than men. Again, anyone who has met both men and women would reach that same conclusion without having to fill out a grant application, just by watching us eat.”
Best line of the day, so far
“George Will is entitled to his own opinions. He is not entitled to his own facts.”
Reaction to the automakers line of the day
“However, I think the Chrysler plan is a joke and my guess is a bankruptcy is imminent.”
His assessment of GM’s plan is that it is “a starting point for negotiations with Bloom, Summers, Geithner and the rest of the Obama auto team.”