“This is what happens when you spend too much time reading Ayn Rand. Sooner or later, you start to believe you can walk on water and some underpaid public servant has to pull your ass out of the lake.”
Category: Best Line of the Day
Clever turns of phrase, special splashes of wit, provocative insight — all in a sentence or two.
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“Passed the American Airlines museum on the way to the ballpark. Did not stop in but from what I understand, they have some rare artifacts on display like free blankets, legroom, and hot meal serving carts for coach.”
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“I love sports. I think that’s what sportswriting on the Internet is all about. There’s a connection between writer and reader on the Internet that goes beyond the printed page. There are comments, easy ways to reply, polls and video and audio embedded, arguments, agreements, feelings hurt, exclamation points, it’s a lot like talking sports in a bar. In some ways it’s even better than talking sports in a bar because there isn’t crappy music playing too loud and the drunk who is screaming ‘Yankees RUULLLLE!’ is easily skipped over in the comments section. It’s not as good as talking sports in a bar, however, because the Internet does not offer beer. I expect Apple to fix that with their next version of the iPad.”
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“A few strokes before midnight Sunday, a motorcycle policeman turned on his red and blue lights and led four Oregon Ducks buses from Arizona Stadium to the airport.
“It was the only time all night that anything red and blue had a step on the Ducks.”
Greg Hansen, Tucson Arizona Daily Star
Red and blue are Arizona’s colors.
Arizona has gone 63-84 since its 12-1 season in 1998.
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“This is what I was thinking when I walked up to the kid who was wearing a t-shirt emblazoned with the images of Thomas Jefferson and Ron Paul. I asked him if Congressman Paul would have supported President Jefferson when the latter pole-vaulted over the powers of his office, and over almost everything he’d ever said in his life regarding the authority of the federal government, in order to buy the Louisiana Territory so we could all one day have a whole lot of college football. He looked dimly at me as though I had taken to speaking in Finnish. And, in my mind’s eye, Clio, the Muse of History, gulps 12 Quaaludes and reaches for the tequila.”
Pierce has a new politics blog. Awesome!
“Rick Perry was in the Air Force. Herman Cain did ballistics analysis for the Navy. Jon Huntsman has worked government jobs for 20 years, and Mitt Romney’s father was governor of Michigan. Rick Scott proudly admits he grew up in public housing, and Paul Ryan got through high school and college on Social Security survivor’s benefits. And this is how they all came to become small-government conservatives who didn’t need a hand-out.”
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“This is how we get Mitt Romney, with his $290 million, telling an audience that he doesn’t ‘try to define who is rich and who is not rich.’ (Here’s a hint, Mitt. You’re rich. You’re filthy, stinking rich. You reek of money. You belong on a card in a Monopoly set, okay? Buy a damn monocle already.)”
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“[W]hile reviewing the results of last night’s highly entertaining getting-shit-wrongfest in the Republican debate. It’s hard not to notice a new trend in the Republican race this year, which is that candidates are increasingly unconcerned about being factually wrong on live television.”
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“In the final hours, Kim Kardashian tweeted, ‘There’s still hope! The Supreme Court has delayed Troy Davis’s Execution for 1 hour to review his case!!!’ Ann Coulter tweeted, just moments before Kardashian’s, ‘ONE TROY DAVIS FLAME-BROILED, PLEASE.’ America’s brightest, divided.”
Mark Anthony Green — The New Yorker
Green’s essay is a very good take on the matter.
Redux post of the day
From five years ago.
Just three Tuesday, Aidan found out from his mother Wednesday that Abraham Lincoln was dead and they couldn’t go visit him. The little guy cried for 20 minutes.
I feel the same way some times.
Which reminded me of a meme I saw at Shakespeare’s Sister.
“If you could sit down to a meal with a president (any president) and ask him one question: who is the president and what is the question?”
Shakes’ Sister suggested George W. Bush and her question was “What the f**k?”
I think I’d have to choose Lincoln. And, being from New Mexico, of course I’d have to ask him, “Red or green?”
Best line of the day
“At big-time boxing matches — like Saturday’s fight between Floyd Mayweather and Victor Ortiz — many people wear tuxedoes. Have you ever wondered about that? It’s so odd, if you think about it: Hey, let’s go watching two people beat the hell out of each other … no, wait, hold on, I have to put on my tuxedo first.”
Best redux line of the day
From four years ago.
“Some sorority chick called my daughter a — said she shouldn’t be in the sorority cause she’s just white trash with money. And she laughed. And my wife was all upset. But I thought it was a great album title.”
Toby Keith
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“The occupational hazard of democracy is know-nothing voters. It shouldn’t be know-nothing candidates.”
Maureen Dowd in tomorrow’s column.
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“Really enjoying our yard sale. ‘Welcome, please buy some of my precious memories for twenty five cents.'”
Jill
A mile away Emily is also selling her precious memories for just 25¢.
Best redux line of the day
From two years ago today.
“Heaven is where the police are British, the cooks French, the mechanics German, the lovers Italian, and it is all organized and run by the Swiss. Hell is where the police are German, the cooks British, the mechanics French, the lovers Swiss, and it is all organized and run by the Italians.”
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We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
Constitutional Convention, September 17, 1787
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“And what this means is that modern conservatism is actually a deeply radical movement, one that is hostile to the kind of society we’ve had for the past three generations — that is, a society that, acting through the government, tries to mitigate some of the ‘common hazards of life’ through such programs as Social Security, unemployment insurance, Medicare and Medicaid.”
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When it comes to foreign policy, the saying goes that politics stops at the water’s edge.
When it comes to climate science, we say that politics should stop at the atmosphere’s edge.
One of us is a Republican, the other a Democrat. We hold different views on many issues. But as scientists, we share a deep conviction that leaders of both parties must speak to the reality and risks of human-caused climate change, and commit themselves to finding bipartisan solutions.
Scientists have known for more than 100 years that carbon dioxide in our atmosphere traps heat. And today we know that the excess carbon dioxide accumulating in the atmosphere from human activity – primarily, burning coal and oil and clearing forests – is altering our climate.
It’s a conclusion based on established physics and on evidence gathered from satellite data, ancient ice cores, temperature stations, fossilized trees and corals. …
Read more from Peter C. Frumhoff and Kerry Emanuel.
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“I’d vote for Katy Perry before I vote for Rick Perry.”
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“The first modern social insurance program began in Germany in 1889 and has been in continuous operation for more than 100 years. The American Social Security system has been in continuous successful operation since 1935. Charles Ponzi’s scheme lasted barely 200 days.”
Click on the link to read about Ponze and his scheme. Nice mug shot of him, too.
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“Q: A question I keep wanting to ask all these balanced-budget fetishists: Should the US have maintained a balanced budget through WWII? If not, then we agree that there are some circumstances in which a balanced budget is undesirable, and all we are talking about is details.”
You Ask, I (try to) Answer | Jared Bernstein | On the Economy
New Mexico Governor’s Grandparents Were Illegal Immigrants
The Onion – America’s Finest News Source | American Voices
The Onion knows irony when it sees it.
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“You little know, my friends, with how little wisdom the world is governed.”
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“Rick Santorum, Bachmann and Ron Paul ganged up on Perry for trying to get Texas girls inoculated against cervical cancer. This is a big deal for some social conservatives, but it’s still interesting to think that we have presidential candidates who believe that they could score a stunning upset victory on an anti-cancer-prevention platform.”
Best headline of the day
“America Gets Set To Enjoy Month Or So Of Libya Seeming Like Symbol Of Freedom”