“If the Democrats said we had a war on caterpillars and every mainstream media outlet talked about the fact that Republicans have a war on caterpillars, then we’d have problems with caterpillars. It's a fiction ( Read more... )

I'm learning to say 'y'all' and I like grits. Strange things are happening to me."
~ Mitt Romney, in Pacagoula, Mississippi quoted on Huffington Post"He (Romney) had blue jeans on, he likes grits. I like to see a man when he’s holding a baby, and he looks like he’s held a baby before ( Read more... )

There was a surprising press release from Pottermore last week. It seems they are postponing the sale of ebooks due to the "unexpected" numbers of Beta Testers who signed up. It seems JKR invited us in herself, but they never thought we would actually show up!
Guardian UK: Pottermore Delays EBook Launch
"We've seen really high levels of activity, ( Read more... )

You don't need to go after the same people every day to remind them
that yes, you still don't like them.
~ Markos Moulitsas, owner of Daily Kos trying to explain how to discuss topics in other people's groups

"I kind of feel like the pinata here at the party."
~ Governor Rick Perry of Texas at the Republican Debate quoted by Reuters

These are not the ( Read more... )

“These people could have personally witnessed him being born out of an apple pie, in the middle of a Kansas wheat field, while Toby Keith sang the National Anthem - and they’d still think he was a Kenyan Muslim."
~Jimmy Kimmel

"It's a beautifully, lovely spring day. It was so nice down in Washington that President Obama was out on the White House ( Read more... )

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
~ Oscar Wilde

You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.
~ Lisa Simpson

Ah! Vanitas Vanitatum! Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?"
~ William Makepeace Thackery, Vanity ( Read more... )