"Future generations are going to look back at this era and ask us how we could have allowed Paris Hilton to happen and we are not going to have a good answer."

-Dave Barry

Some fun quotes compiled in a book called A Book of Curious Advice by Ruth Pepper Summers ( Read more... )

Stephen Merchant, writer for The Office and a few other comedy moments, says, "A joke about race, and about how we react to race, is not necessarily a racist joke. That is fundamental. Political correctness has made the world better for those who might otherwise have been unfairly marginalised, but there is the problem of the idea that you cannot ( Read more... )

"There is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs - partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays ( Read more... )

"If you believe the deck is stacked from birth, then when bother struggling? If you think that you will never have a real chance at a full life because you are a woman, a homosexual, short, bald or fat, or if your ancestors came from Africa or spoke Spanish, you will never have that real chance because you will not take it. If you reduce yourself ( Read more... )

"By all means let a poet, if he wants to, write poems...that protest against this or that political evil or social injustice. But let him remember this. The only person who will benefit from them is himself; they will enhance his literary reputation among those who feel as he does. The evil or injustice, however, will remain exactly what it would ( Read more... )