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Old Man Yells at Clouds
“I have to admit,” he said, “that I’m one of those people that still thinks the dishwasher is a miracle. What a device! And I have to admit that because I think that way, I like to load it. I like to look in and see how that dishes were magically cleaned.”
‘Today there is much focus on our rights. Indeed, I think there is a proliferation of rights.”
“I am often surprised by the virtual nobility that seems to be accorded those with grievances. Shouldn’t there at least be equal time for our Bill of Obligations and our Bill of Responsibilities?”
"And what's the deal with these pocket Victrolas I keep hearing about? How do you keep the needle from skipping?"
Okay, I made up the last one.
you might want tenure before showing this to your 3rd grade class.
I watched the "Face the Stephanopoulos" show that featured the Newt, whose clip leads off this clip reel. I LOL'd and LOL'd and LOL'd when George F. Will had to step in as the voice of reason.
obama to smears lambs blood over whitehouse doorways.
ana marie cox continues to claw her way to the top of the tower of babelsphere. here shes filling in on air america radio.
april foolishness
mark bowden on pinch sulzberger in vanity fair
Speaking to MSNBC on Monday, the longtime magazine scribe said that the Obama administration is not "too crazy about Krugman" (no surprise, considering how much criticism Krugman has laid on the White House's economic policies) and that, in private, they "think he is naďve."
"They think he is naive, that his idea of bank nationalization is not going to work," said Thomas. "But they are careful not to criticize him on the record."
"You know, I think the administration is trying to ignore Krugman, quite frankly," Thomas went on. "But they can't entirely because he has a big voice. You know, that platform of the New York Times, that's a big platform. And he's got his Nobel Prize. You have to take him seriously and can't just ignore him.
A Guardian Television report suggests that 75% of the 80,000 Afghan army troops are regular marijuana users.
roland hedley alert
So I waited patiently and then decided to pounce with a sharp follow-up. From just a few feet away, I could see in his body language that the normally calm and cool president was perturbed. But it's in moments like that we sometimes find out what's really on a president's mind. In this case, he's not happy about the scrutiny on AIG. So he did slap me down a bit.