Apparently research shows that all our brain is for is to report to us what it is we just did and make up a reason for why we did it.
— Tom Toles
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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.
Quote of the Morning
From the New York Times:
But when a bear is in your kitchen, it seems bigger.
Quote of the Morning
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.
Quote of the Morning
I gotta say, of all my issues with Michele Bachmann’s brain, migraines are not even in the top 20. — Jon Stewart
Quote of the Day
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
You See? You See? We’re Not Just Like the Nazis and the Soviets! We’re Not!
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.
Go Back to Bed and Wait for Lunch, For Example
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.
Quote of the Day
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.
Pre-existing Condition
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.
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