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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Quote of the Morning
From Jon Carroll’s column this morning:
I think maybe people are sometimes just stupid. That’s my current theory.
Quote of the Day
From Jon Carroll’s column today:
Bringing magical thinking to people is not the same as bringing hope to people.
Political Quote of the Day
From Garrison Keillor’s column yesterday on salon.com:
Hundreds of millions paid to the gunslingers of Blackwater, but an American family with a seriously ill child has to tap-dance backward through a gantlet of government forms to prove they really, really, really are desperate.
Quote of the Yesterday
Yesterday I spent way too much of my afternoon watching old episodes of The Daily Show and The Colbert Report that I hadn’t watched yet.
This is Stephen Colbert announcing the top headline of the day on the 4/16/07 episode of The Colbert Report:
Tonight, Alberto Gonzales prepares to testify before Congress. Unfortunately for him, he’s legalized a lot more ways of making him talk.
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Stephen Colbert, on the 1/8/07 episode of The Colbert Report:
Children are just lobbyists who get political favors in exchange for being adorable. I’ve said it before: They’re here to replace us, and if we don’t do something soon, they will.
An Emboldenable Bunch
From the 1/31/07 installment of The Daily Show, after a montage of clips of Bush and other Republican officials reciting what is evidently a new Talking Point, that any disagreement with how Bush is handling the war only serves to “embolden” the terrorists:
JON STEWART: It seems that critics of the war have no recourse that does not embolden al-Qaida or our enemies.
JOHN OLIVER: Yes, they are an emboldenable bunch.
JON: But the word “embolden” — such an odd word, such an unconventional word.
JOHN: Well, this is an odd, unconventional war. This isn’t like World War Two where there were winners and losers. It’s a new kind of war, where enemies can either be emboldened or beweakened. So we have to enscare them to the point where they rebecave themselves. We must disimagine the very thinkment of misunsuccessiveness. That is what we have to bedo.
Quip of the Day
From an essay on Salon this morning:
If the presidency were a car, Americans would be asking for their money back. It’s hard to start, hard to steer — and nearly impossible to stop.
Meep Meep!
John Oliver on The Daily Show the other night, in the process of comparing the situation in Iraq to a Roadrunner and Wile E. Coyote cartoon:
So yes, Jon, perhaps the president has run America off a cliff. But what he’s saying now is, “Everybody, don’t look down!”
Quote of the Day
Ursula LeGuin on the adaptation of her Earthsea books as an animated feature by Goro Miyazaki:
I get roundly scolded on my Web site by younger Japanese people for not understanding the movie. These people don’t know the books, so they’re not confused, as I was.
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