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Category Archives: Quotes
Winston Churchill on Socialism
“The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.” – Winston Churchill
Quote of the Day
“It doesn’t immediately become recognizable as bullshit when it’s in print, but that’s only because print is black, not brown.” – tog
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Glenn Reynolds on Weinergate
“I think there’s an important point in the comic value: The people who think they’re smart enough, and morally superior enough, to run everyone else’s lives are risible. They’re not smart enough to run their own lives competently, and they’re … Continue reading
Megan McArdle on Private School Vouchers
“Memo to suburban voucher opponents who ‘support public education’: you’re already sending your kid to private school. You’re just confused because your tuition fees came bundled with granite countertops and hardwood floors.” – Megan McArdle And a little more:
Word of the Day – The Vardi Paradox (of Web Site Value)
“The value of any Web site is in inverse relation to what it costs to attract new users.” – Yoss Vardi Found here, by way of Ricochet’s reminder that 1999 Thomas Friedman predicted the Imminent Death of Amazon.
I Completely Agree with Barack Obama on the Debt Ceiling
“The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the U.S. Government can’t pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend … Continue reading
Jack Donaghy on Greece
“I want to help you, Lemon, but this is not the week. Avery’s maternity leave has been cut short so she could go cover the collapse of Greece’s banking system. Since inventing democracy, those guys have been… coasting.” – Jack … Continue reading
Anthony Watts calls this the global warming quote of the millennium
“If the world as a whole cut all emissions tomorrow the average temperature of the planet is not going to drop in several hundred years, perhaps as much as a thousand years because the system is overburdened with CO2 that … Continue reading
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My new favorite phrase: “A leash looking for a dog”
“The market (that is, all of us) ignore CO2 because it was never an issue. It became a convenient hobgoblin for interventionist busybodies and statist fucks… people with a leash looking for a dog, basically.” – Old Mexican
Buy Polly Ester’s Book
“If you haven’t bought a copy of my book? Please do. That’s me begging. Those who’ve purchased my book, and liked it? Go on Amazon & give it a good review. Let’s inflate my grade! If you find my pandering … Continue reading
Forget it, Jake
“‘Course I’m respectable. I’m old. Politicians, ugly buildings, and whores all get respectable if they last long enough.” – Noah Cross (John Huston), Chinatown I can’t believe I had never seen that movie. Good stuff.
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“Debating an anti-gunner is like debating an arachnophobe about the importance of spiders in the ecosystem.” – Stephen Wright
Best Repudiation of Homeopathy EVAR
“Why doesn’t the water retain the memory of all of the fish crap its been in contact with? Wouldn’t that skew the cure?” – Agammamon
pastabagel on the Blackberry
“The Blackberry is basically a corporate house-arrest ankle bracelet that prevents you from thinking about anything other than your job no matter where you are in the world.” – pastabagel I’m looking at you, Bill D.
P.J. O’Rourke on Government Charity
“There is no virtue in compulsory government charity, and there is no virtue in advocating it. A politician who portrays himself as “caring” and “sensitive” because he wants to expand the government’s charitable programs is merely saying that he’s willing … Continue reading
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Rush Limbaugh on Hu Jintao’s White House Dinner
“The 2009 Nobel Peace Prize Winner hosted a dinner for the guy holding the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize Winner in prison and the media does not get the irony of this at all.” – Rush Limbaugh I’m not a big … Continue reading
Jeff Bishop on Sarah Palin
“Sarah Palin is a Rorschach test, not a candidate.” – Jeff Bishop on Facebook I’ve said it before – I don’t necessarily think Sarah Palin would be a good president, but in the mean time she sure does make the … Continue reading
2006 Obama on federal debts
“The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the U.S. Government can’t pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend … Continue reading
Joseph Sobran
“Politics is the conspiracy of the unproductive but organized against the productive but unorganized.” — Joseph Sobran
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Kurt Vonnegut
“Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.” — … Continue reading
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