“Diagosis: clinically privileged.”
The Daily Dish on you know who.
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 moral of the story is: if you’re ever put in prison just put on a frowny face and they’ll let you go. Oh, and make sure you’re Paris Hilton. That last part’s pretty important.”
The Superficial commenting on Hilton’s release for “medical condition” that apparently was that her “mental state was fragile.”
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“Everybody’s all atwitter because a deranged German man tried to jump in the Popemobile yesterday. Of course he did…he’s the Pope!”
Best line of the day, so far
“TB Guy Tops Bush in New Poll”
Update: Letterman had this line Monday night: “President Bush is off to Europe for the big G8 Summit — and his approval rating is very low. Right now, he’s less popular than that tuberculosis guy.”
Stupidest line of the debate, so far
“Bilingual countries don’t work, and we should not encourage it.”
Tom Tancredo, Republican candidate to be President of the United States.
Has anyone told the Canadians, the Swiss, the Chinese?
Best line of the night, so far
“Governor, muchas gracias.”
John McCain to Mitt Romney as reported by The Daily Dish.
Romney says English should be the national language but runs campaign ads in Spanish. ¡Hipócrita!
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“But what politics has become requires a level of tolerance for triviality and artifice and nonsense that I find I have in short supply.”
Al Gore quoted by Bob Herbert in The New York Times via The Daily Howler.
Me too.
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“There are lots of threats to you in the world. There’s the threat of a heart attack for genetic reasons. You can’t sit there and worry about everything. Get a life.”
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg on the JFK plot.
Best line of the day, so far
“If President Bush and Vice President Cheney can blurt out vulgar language, then the government cannot punish broadcast television stations for broadcasting the same words in similarly fleeting contexts.”
Report in The New York Times on federal appeals court ruling against FCC.
Gawker has a great take on the decision. [Not for the faint-hearted.]
Best line of the day, so far
“Leslie thinks it’s a bad idea, but worst-case scenario, I’ve got great home videos.”
Judd Apatow on including his and actress Leslie Mann’s daughters in the cast of the film Knocked Up.
From a profile in The New York Times Magazine.
Best line of the day, so far
For some reason, the most vocal Christians among us never mention the Beatitudes. But, often with tears in their eyes, they demand that the Ten Commandments be posted in public buildings. And of course that’s Moses, not Jesus. I haven’t heard one of them demand that the Sermon on the Mount, the Beatitudes, be posted anywhere.
“Blessed are the merciful” in a courtroom? “Blessed are the peacemakers” in the Pentagon? Give me a break!
Kurt Vonnegut
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“Like they say, politics is show business for ugly people.”
Susan DuQuesnay (first posted here three years ago).
OK, I guess that explains Fred Thompson.
Best line of the day, so far
When it comes to global warming and other assorted environmental disasters, get ready to hear one theme over and over again. Namely, that the damage is exceeding even the experts’ predictions. Today that phrase applies to carbon emissions, which—all together now—are exceeding even the experts’ predictions. Which is really scary because their prediction was: “We’re fucked.”
Best line of the day, so far
“[L]ovemaking and fishing don’t manage to dominate your life like you wish they could.”
Narrator David Burkett in True North
Best line of the day, so far
(CBS/AP) President Bush sought to rally Republican lawmakers around his Iraq plan Thursday, saying Iraqis are ready to “take the training wheels off” by assuming some political power.
He warned that violence is likely to worsen as that transfer approaches, and after it passes.
President Bush, May 20, 2004 (CBS News)
Three years ago today. Idea from Atrios.
Best line of the day, so far
“I bring this up because there’s often an assumption on days like today that growing up is purely a function of age; that becoming an adult is an inevitable progression that can be measured by a series of milestones – college graduation or your first job or the first time you throw a party that actually has food too.”
— Barack Obama in a graduation speech at Southern New Hampshire University and excerpted at length by The Daily Dish. Quite a speech.
Falwell That Ends Well (An Ode To The Mortal Majority)
Reverend Falwell, fond farewell:
Your soul has fled its mortal shell
And flown across the great divide
To savor at your Savior’s side.
Or so you think… um… so you thought,
Well, so, at least, your Bible taught,
While unbelievers who deny
Eternal afterlife, like I,
Think when your dead, well, you just die.But if, when I give up the fight,
I’m strangely drawn into the light?
And there your reverent form I see?
Don’t laugh sir, that the joke’s on me,
For since I’ve never claimed nor known
Your Savior Jesus as my own,
If you should meet this faithless Jew
In Heaven or in Hell’s review,
Well, either way… the joke’s on you.Goldy at HorsesAss.Org
Best line of the day, so far
“If you get in bed with the devil, you better be prepared to fuck.”
Tom Donahue quoted in Marc Fisher’s Something in the Air: Radio, Rock, and the Revolution That Shaped a Generation
Best sports line of the day, so far
“You can’t blame [the NBA] for the Stoudemire-Diaw suspensions because they correctly interpreted a stupid, idiotic, foolish, moronic, brainless, unintelligent, foolhardy, imprudent, thoughtless, obtuse and thickheaded rule.”
Bill Simmons, who adds: “What kind of league penalizes someone for reacting like a good teammate after his franchise player just got decked?”
Follow the link if only to read the Dave Cowens story about two-thirds of the way down.
Best sports line of the day, so far
“[B]ut I think basketball is the purest form of athletic expression. Football is too scripted, baseball’s too boring, and soccer … well, soccer can best be compared to caviar. No one really knows why anyone likes it, but they’re all afraid to say that it looks like poop and tastes like fish eggs.”
Paul Shirley in a discussion of the NBA playoffs with Neal Pollack at Slate. Shirley is the author of Can I Keep My Jersey?: 11 Teams, 5 Countries, and 4 Years in My Life as a Basketball Vagabond
In parts one and three of this series, Pollack has some strong thoughts on the NBA and the ripoff of the Suns.
Most important line of the day, so far
“The overarching point here, as always, is that it is simply crystal clear that the President consciously and deliberately violated the law and committed multiple felonies by eavesdropping on Americans in violation of the law.”
Glenn Greenwald commenting on the real story behing Former Deputy Attorney General Comey’s testimony yesterday.
Even the tepid Washington Post has this:
“James B. Comey, the straight-as-an-arrow former No. 2 official at the Justice Department, yesterday offered the Senate Judiciary Committee an account of Bush administration lawlessness so shocking it would have been unbelievable coming from a less reputable source.”
Lawlessness so shocking.
It’s way beyond Nixon, folks. Way beyond.
Worst president ever.
[YouTube has Comey’s testimony — about 20 minutes.]
Best line of the day, so far
“These guys have just spent the last fifteen minutes of the debate trying to top each other on just how much torture they are willing to inflict. They sound like a bunch of psychotic 12 year olds….”
Digby on last night’s GOP debate.
Best line of the day, so far
“But at the end of the day, I’m not terribly sad, and I think a lot of people feel the same way. Jerry Falwell was a divisive person, a hateful person, and what I’ve tried to be all about, in the Teletubbies days and since then, has been love. I’ve got to keep it that way. I don’t want anybody feeling good about it when it’s my time for Tubby bye-bye.”
Best line of the day
“It’s better to burn out than fade away.”
Neil Young
Best line of the day, so far
[…] Gonzales’ appearance yesterday was nothing but a thumbing of the Administration’s nose at Congress. It reminded me of the scene in Office Space when Ron Livingston goes into the conference room to interview with the consultants, and he slouches in the chair and explains that he doesn’t do anything all day because he’s bored with his job and doesn’t give a shit, and then he basically tells the interviewers to go to hell.