This year, I've had a few people drop out of femgenficathon (not surprising, as it's been a bad year for everyone). This is the first year I haven't had a whole list of people on the waiting list for quotations, so this time I'm going to do something a little different ( Read more... )

The "I Do" anthology is now being sold by a Dutch site.

And then there is this link, which leads to the best Memorial Day comment ever. Since the photo there is rather large and since that might be difficult for some people with slow connections, here's the passage. It's from Pratchett's Night Watch, pp. 403-404 ( Read more... )

It's important for us to explain to our nation that life is important. It's not only life of babies, but it's life of children living in, you know, the dark dungeons of the Internet.

--The Shrub, Arlington Heights, Illinois, Oct. 24, 2000

Dark dungeons. The first thing that springs to mind is the Jack Chick tract by that name. (Note--the link ( Read more... )

After the idiocy of the church membership list thing, I went looking for Dubya quotes.

People, this man is stupid. And it can't all be blamed on his scriptwriters, because if it were up to them, then I think that some glimmer of intelligence would show up.

Instead, he tosses off lines like this:

( Dubya-isms )

I should probably put this under literaryquotes, but I like the quote so much (and have been looking for it for so very long) that I'm putting it in my LJ:

WHY I WRITE FOR CHILDREN By Isaac Bashevis Singer

( The List )