Washington Post political cartoonist Tom Toles posted this on Facebook today:
Today I had an email exchange where I indulged the bad temptation to return snark for snark. However I was so subtle that my snark was missed and a polite and positive exchange ensued. There is a lesson in there but I’m resistant to it.
From the New York Times:
But when a bear is in your kitchen, it seems bigger.
Posted on Facebook the other day by my friend Rik Elswit:
It is infurating having the fate of Social Security and Medicare determined by people who don’t expect to need either.
I gotta say, of all my issues with Michele Bachmann’s brain, migraines are not even in the top 20. — Jon Stewart
From the current issue of Vanity Fair:
Don’t say that as a boy your grandmother used to read to you, unless at that stage of her life she really was a boy, in which case you have probably thrown away a better intro.— Christopher Hitchens
Josh Marshall on Talking Points Memo:
If nothing else I think it’s a sign of how far we’ve come as a nation that a middle-aged Jewish woman and an African-American man can participate in paramilitary-leaning right-wing ravanchist politics on a equal footing with white people.
Gorge-raising quote of the day, for me anyway, from an article in today’s Contra Costa Times about french toast:
“There’s nothing better than food you can pour syrup on.”
I can in fact think of any number of things I’d rather do first thing in the morning than take into my mouth a forkful of anything covered with syrup.
Retired surgeon and professor John Gary Maxwell in North Carolina’s StarNewsOnline:
We resist “socialized medicine” from the federal government while oblivious that we have embraced socialized medicine delivered — after profits — by the insurance industry.
From this week’s New Yorker, start of the Talk of the Town section:
“At present the United States has the unenviable distinction of being the only great industrial nation without compulsory health insurance,” the Yale economist Irving Fisher said in a speech in December. December of 1916, that is.
From Jon Carroll’s column today:
I think there are about seven lessons that life has to teach us, and we just learn them over and over again. Wisdom consists of remembering at least three of them at any given time.
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