February 2012
30 posts
“I hope she will not feel like a second class citizen involved in something...”
– Republican Washington state representative Maureen Walsh explains that she will be voting to support gay marriage, partially in honor of her gay daughter. Full video.
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“I like to see people happy. It’s better than seeing people sad. So yes, I am...”
– Maggie Gallagher, founder of the National Organization for Marriage, in Mark Oppenheimer’s fair, incisive profile.
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“Her photographs are beautiful and scrupulous, and she has won just about every...”
– Philip Kennicott on Annie Leibovitz.
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43 percent of voters say random choices from phone... →
This does not link to an Onion article. Via Karen Tumulty
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“Proposition 8 serves no purpose, and has no effect, other than to lessen the...”
– an excerpt from today’s ruling of a three-judge panel in San Francisco overturning California’s ban on same-sex marriages.
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“Stoney’s Rockin’ Country dance hall is a place that celebrates defiance of long...”
– David Fahrenthold, reporting from Las Vegas.
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“He’s thinner, he’s better looking, he’s younger. But you asked me if I had...”
– Newt Gingrich, during an interview on the “Rich Stevens Radio Show.” (via officialssay)
Matter of fact, why not go for Angelina?
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January 2012
125 posts
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“Prior to prescribing medication for erectile dysfunction, a physician shall...”
– a floor amendment — by Virginia state senator Janet Howell (D-Fairfax) — to a bill that would require women to have an ultrasound before undergoing an abortion. (“I just think we should have a little gender equity here,” Howell said.)
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“Handing out cash to people — that’s just bad manners.”
– Rockefeller cousin Nelson W. Aldrich, quoted in a piece about how Americans don’t resent all wealthy candidates — Just, apparently, the ones like Mitt Romney.
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Scorsese. Scorsese. Prosecco. Prosecco. Scorsese.
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“I don’t really like any of them.”
– the grandson of John Tyler, the 10th U.S. president, on the GOP presidential candidates.
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“Newt Gingrich is an idiot of great renown. … There is something so...”
– author and illustrator Maurice Sendak, throughout a sensational two-part interview with Stephen Colbert. Part 1 | Part 2
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Watch[Bleep] Liz Lemon Says.
Overdue.
(AwwwPWOMP.)
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“I suddenly remembered my Charlemagne. ‘Let my armies be the rocks and the...”
– Prof. Henry Jones
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