“An acre planted with corn can produce 18 gallons of oil a year; an acre of palm, 700 gallons; an acre of algae – the green slimy stuff – 20,000 gallons.”
Yeah, but do you get to drive a cool John Deere tractor planting algae?
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
“Politics is like driving. To go backward, put it in R. To go forward, put it in D.”
Best line of the evening
“There is a lot of interesting information in this article. Some of it is even correct.”
digby commenting on some ABC political analysis.
Best line of the day, so far
“Clinton Open to Being Obama’s Veep. I’m Open to Being the Detroit Tigers’ Second Baseman.”
Best line of the day, so far
“Window on American Airlines plane shatters, takes out engine shortly after takeoff. Passengers charged $15 ‘skid-mark removal’ fee prior to boarding replacement plane”
Best line of the day, so far
“I should read. Reading is too hard for the dead of night. Reading has too many words in it.”
From a very amusing piece about insomnia by Jenny Allen in last week’s New Yorker.
Best anecdote of the day, so far
[Michael Seidenberg] was very pleased, and it moved him to relate a story from the dark period, not too long ago, when he was selling books on the street. “Once, a couple stopped,” he recalled. “And the man asked his girlfriend, ‘Do you want a book?’ She said, ‘No, I already have a book.’ ”
From a brief item about Seidenberg in The New Yorker.
Best line of the day, so far
“[R]eckless initiatives like the Chrysler-Dodge-Jeep offer to subsidize gasoline for three years for people who buy its gas guzzlers are the moral equivalent of tobacco companies offering discounted cigarettes to teenagers.”
Best line of the day, so far
“Anyone can have, free, my entry in the contest: dumping the hideous, un-American, Orwellian, Teutonic-in-the-bad-sense term ‘Homeland’ and renaming both the department and the entire concept “domestic” security.”
James Fallows commenting on a contest for the best idea to improve “Homeland Security.”
Best list of the day, so far
Cheers and Jeers thinks we should name this year’s hurricanes after the Bushies. You know —
Ashcroft
Brownie
Condi
Dick
Enron
Feith
Gonzales
etc. He’s got all 26.
Best line of the day, so far
“But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.”
Rachel Carson, born on May 27, 1907
Best line of the day, so far
“San Antonio flies back home for Game 3 after three quarters, enabling Los Angeles to finish with 30-point victory.”
Best line of the morning
“Whether McCain is hiding anything or not, this gives us all an insight into just how open a McCain Administration would be.”
Functional Ambivalent on the very restricted release of John McCain’s medical records.
Even better best line of the night
“If you had May 22 in your office’s ‘What day will John McCain play the Obama can’t be President because he didn’t get shot down flying a plane’ pool, you win”
Best line of the night
“TSA announces plan to streamline security checkpoints by allowing passengers to leave laptops in special, Targus or Skooba-designed bags. This announcement brought to you by Targus and Skooba, for all your laptop needs”
What He Said
“[A] court striking down a law supported by large majorities is not antithetical to our system of government. Such a judicial act is central to our system of government.”
Best line of the day, so far
“$4 gas is annoying. $8 gas, if it happens, will be… different.”
Atrios commenting on $135 a barrel and downward revisions in supply forecasts.
According to AAA, today’s national average price is $3.831 for regular, $4.068 for mid-grade, $4.214 for supreme, and $4.590 for diesel. If only I could have that 18.4¢ a gallon rebate from McCain and Clinton.
Update: That the gasoline tax rebate discussion has seemingly disappeared from Clinton’s repertoire is interesting, don’t you think? Kind of proves the pandering charge doesn’t it?
Best line last night
“Barack Obama is expected to do well with more affluent, educated voters, and Hillary Clinton is expected to win Kentucky.”
Jay Leno
Best line early this morning
“This just in: Hillary Clinton refuses to concede the Hornets are out of the NBA playoffs.”
Maybe she stays in because she is a Yankees fan and a Cubs fan. A Yankees fan always thinks they’re going to win and a Cubs fan knows there’s always next year — or the next primary.
Best Manny line of the day, so far
“Red Sox left fielder Manny Ramirez, to AP, on his pending milestone after hitting his 498th career homer: ‘I know I have two more to go, but I ain’t counting.'”
Another good line
“Bush urges Pakistan to solve Kashmir problem, says that any threat to the world’s sweater market must be taken seriously”
The other day Fark.com had:
“For those of you still not sure whether the gas tax holiday is actually a good idea or not, Bush is considering it, so that should clear things up”
Best line of the day, so far
“I keep picturing a bunch of rabid fans holding up lighters and calling out their top requests: ‘Social Security reform, Universal Healthcare, Free Bird.'”
Davenetics thinking about the huge crowd for Obama in Portland. Of course, Dave dates himself. No lighters these days. Rock fans hold up their lighted cell phones.
Best advice line of the day, so far
“Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.”
Michael Pollan, author of In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto, quoted in The Last Bite an article asking, “Is the world’s food system collapsing?”
Best line of the day, so far
“Among today’s larger corporations,” Webb writes, “the average CEO makes more than $10 million a year at the same time his or her workforce receives the lowest compensation package, as a percentage of national wealth, in American history.
“What did these people do to earn these fabulous sums? Did they invent the light bulb? Did they discover the Internet? Did they provide the world with a vaccine that would eliminate some dread disease? No, they examined trends, analyzed data, made phone calls and decided where their clients should risk their assets in buying or selling a stake in the international marketplace.”
Senator Jim Webb, from his new book, A Time to Fight: Reclaiming a Fair and Just America, and quoted in The Virginian-Pilot.
Pretty Good Line (and I need to get this blog restarted)
“White House to Obama: You’re so vain, you probably thought that speech was about you…Don’t you, don’t you?”
(The White House denies the President’s speech to the Israeli Knesset included a veiled reference to Obama. Mostly it was Carter.)