Today's QUOTES ...

Within five weeks after George W. Bush moved into the White House (after a stolen election, let's not forget), his administration sought to wiretap without any legal oversight whatsoever, severely punishing those that insisted on obeying the law.* Not work to change the law, mind you, but rather to disobey the laws of this country with total impunity.

Within five weeks. Long before 9/11. Kee-rist.
Better watch out, the marketers are looking for your 'protective frame' ... Horror movie fans seem to already have a protective frame of safety, distance or detachment that lets them absorb fear and still enjoy themselves, he said. "In other words, experiencing mixed feelings within a protective frame may well be more fun," Andrade and Cohen wrote in the journal.

A safe prediction ... If current trends continue, only 83 of the 177 verbs studied will be irregular in 500 years, the researchers predict. They predict that the next irregular verb to regularize will be wed, meaning that just-married couples will no longer be "newly wed" but will have blissfully "wedded." ... Oh? It isn't there already?
You simply cannot find examples in recent years of Republican presidential candidates' physical ticks or trivial personal foibles that the press has pounced on and announced to be wildly important and deeply revealing. That's just not a distraction Republican candidates have to deal with. The media phenomenon only applies to Democrats and the phenomenon only exists because journalists manufacture it.

I have come to the conclusion that she is perfectly "likeable"... she is just presented to us through a prism of a press corps that doesn't like her for the same reasons it doesn't like Al Gore... i.e., she is a Democrat who is not a pathological liar.

Looking for Jesus ... The political comrades who enable those who hate among us are soon to be massively defeated ... Oh, how I hope he's right!
Oh, Annie, Annie, Annie ... Re: If she [Annie the Coulter] had said that Christianity were no better than, or worse than, Judaism she would have been betraying her faith.

She said a bit more than just that. I can say that I think Pepsi is superior to Coke without saying that Coke should be eliminated and everyone should drink Pepsi.

But I have no explanation for this current round of unusually spectacular conservative crap, other than perhaps the melting icecaps have released all the excess Stupid that was trapped in ancient ice as the dinosaurs died off. ... I suppose Republican Stupid must come from somewhere, but why pick on the dinosaurs?