2011 Quotes

2011 Quote of the day

My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world.

Reason leavened with a little wit (if possible) is the real alternative to hate speech, meaning that there's no better time for it.

Everyone loves a witch hunt as long as it's someone else's witch being hunted.

I am just mystified by these people telling me I would think Obama was doing a great job if his skin contained less melanin.

I think there needs to be a meeting to set an agenda for more meetings about meetings.

One upside of the heat. Kind of cool to see a cat pant.

American political culture quickly and always outpaces any attempt to satirize it.

Memo to extreme partisans: If you can't bring yourselves to love your enemies, can you at least learn to hate your friends?

Given Loughner's obsession with meaninglessness and language, maybe Foucault & Derrida deserve some fault here, too.

I got my dad a great father's Day present. He called to say: 'Ach. Zis present is so good I now think it vas almost vorth having children.

Tip to all British tabloids: Do Not Hack Amy Winehouse's Phone. I repeat: Do Not Hack Amy Winehouse's Phone.

To all the revolutionaries fighting to throw off the yoke of tyranny around the world: look at British democracy. Is that what you want?

Gov. Christie says 'New Jersey First.' State-based Isolationism!

The American people are fed up...with political posturing.' True, but also an example of political posturing.

Incestuous, homogeneous fiefdoms of self-proclaimed expertise are always rank-closing and mutually self-defending, above all else.

Because of racism, he can't govern effectively' is not a great argument for re-election.

@bobbybaird i'm a writer, so are you. we try to compose our thoughts and words for effect as well as sense. vain of us? a bit.

Nice mix of Tory MPs saying this issue shouldn't be used for petty political pointscoring, & Tory MPs trying to score petty political points.

I realise I'm behind on this but Rebekah Brooks was married to Ross Kemp of Gangs fame?! And she assaulted him? That explains so much.

This is how it works now with the news: the story begins with a moral, then a narrative is fashioned to support it.

Unfortunately...I missed out on the California Gold Rush a century before...I'll be dammed if I miss out on this one.

Windows 10 on both an old 2011 upgraded computer and a new 2016 computer was an excruciating experience

There is no one in the United States over the age of 18 who cannot be indicted for some federal crime. That is not an exaggeration.

Scary discovery of the day: Most people who RT @yokoono's tweets do so without irony.

When Loughner himself speaks and we find out his real influences are Spiderman, 'Gnome Chomsky, ' Taylor Swift, and Dr. Bronner, then what?