April 2009
39 posts
New York, you're buggin' me out.
andrearosen:
Oh man, I was taking the J train across the Williamsburg bridge this afternoon and made a new favorite subway memory. I sat next to a middle aged fellow in the car. He was a little off, but not in a threatening way—he struggled to sit and took long, labored breaths. I assumed he had some sort of physical health issues [Swine Flu joke TK] but was otherwise harmless. I took out my New...
When Insults Had Class
tmblg:
“He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.” - Winston Churchill
“A modest little person, with much to be modest about.” - Winston Churchill
“I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.” - Clarence Darrow
“He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.” - William Faulkner (about Ernest...
Pulling Our Weight, The Radio Dept. (via Disc 1 of...
“Anyway, to paraphrase Bogart, there are some sections of the United States I...”
– Glenn Reynolds, “I SEE THIS AS A POSITIVE: ‘A rifle behind every blade of grass.’” (4/29/2009, via Instapundit.com)
“The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places.”
– Ernest Hemingway (via psychotherapy) (via furryrabbits)
For a man who said his goal was to write but one true sentence…
Iz-Us, Aphex Twin - Come To Daddy
‘Cause I...
“We believe in all of those things, but 30 Senate votes merely gets you the same...”
– The WSJ Editorial Board, “Specter’s Switcheroo” (4/29/2009, via WSJ.com)
“Mr. Obama is more popular than his policies, and sooner or later the twain shall...”
– The WSJ Editorial Board, “The Liberal Hour” (4/29/2009, via WSJ.com)
“To be relevant in politics, you need either formal power or a lot of people...”
– Scott Rasmussen, “Is the Beltway GOP Irrelevant?” (4/28/2009, via rasmussenreports.com)
“The speaker and her partisans are the current beneficiaries of this politics of...”
– Bret Stephens, The Politics of Liberal Amnesia (4/28/2009, via WSJ.com)
“In the name of containing “systemic risk,” our regulators spread it....”
– The WSJ Editorial Board, Busting Bank of America (2/27/2009, via WSJ.com)
“Lipman said the magazine is ahead of its business plan on various business...”
– Portfolio Writer Jeff Berovici Explaining Advance’s Decision to Close Conde Nast Portfolio, Which Lost $100mm the Two Preceding Years (4/27/2009, Conde Nast Closing ‘Portfolio’, via Portfolio.com)
“In addition to John - sorry, the - I just noticed I jumped the gun here. Go...”
– President Barack Obama to the People Controlling His Teleprompter During a Speech at the National Academy of Sciences (4/27/2009, via POLITICO 44)
“I have a gift, Harry.”
– Senator Barack Obama in Response to Praise from Majority Leader Harry Reid Following a Speech on The Iraq War (Epilogue: The Obama Era, “The Good Fight”, Harry Reid)
“It is early in the Obama foreign policy. They say the right thing on political...”
– Henninger: Obama Among the Dictators - WSJ.com
“Breaking News. It is officially safe to date men who work at Goldman again.”
– SMS from my mama, in reaction to this.
LOL. She is totally joking.
(via mascarah)
“You live half a mile from the 20,000-square-foot home you can’t go to anymore,...”
– Hulk Hogan with regards to his pending divorce and his wife’s penchant for younger men… Yikes… (via andrewmuto)
but i do feel kind of bad for ol’ Hulk.
(via furryrabbits)
ME: Wow. Yeah.
“Metadata is worldview; sorting is a political act.”
– The Failure of #amazonfail « Clay Shirky (via fred-wilson)
Hipster coitus, interrupted.
andrearosen:
katiebakes:
“…and she attempted to stick her hand down his pants but they were too tight.”
Heh.
“The Democrats were the Tax And Spend Party. Then in response the Republicans...”
– ParaPundit: Tax, Borrow, And Spend: America’s New Political Model
“If you think shrinking government and getting it less involved in your life is a...”
– Taxes & Tyranny, Jonah Goldberg (via The Corner on NRO)
“If my wife spends too much on a shopping trip, does that mean she can’t...”
– Taxes & Tyranny, Jonah Goldberg (via The Corner on NRO)
“Today we have the benefit of hindsight. On Friday the New York Times did not....”
– Best of the Web Today: Not Impotent After All, James Taranto (via WSJ.com)
“Picture an upside-down pyramid with its narrow tip at the bottom and its base on...”
– Everyone Should Pay Income Taxes, Ari Fleischer (via WSJ.com)
“A 2006 study in the journal Health Affairs concludes that around 17 cents of...”
– The End of Private Health Insurance - WSJ.com
“In some situations, you can be extremely wrong and be fine, in others you can be...”
– Edge: THE FOURTH QUADRANT: A MAP OF THE LIMITS OF STATISTICS By Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“Tell me again how he keeps winning elections. And then fix it, please.”
– Michael Ledeen on Jack Murtha, “Another Marine Found Innocent” (via The Corner on NRO)
“There is a heads-I-win-tails-you-lose quality to liberal judicial activism: It...”
– James Taranto, Best of the Web Today: Los Lobos Locos (4/9/2009, via WSJ.com)
“If the U.S. government won’t protect American citizens from the legal...”
– WSJ Editorial Board (Obama’s Next Hostage Crisis - 4/9/2009, WSJ.com)
