Quotes
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I miss Ronald Reagan
Somehow I stumbled upon this quote of his about hippies, to wit a hippie is someone who “dresses like Tarzan, has hair like Jane, and smells like Cheetah.”
Is there anyone on the political scene right now that has come up with a better one liner? Clinton did have a few good ones in the early nineties, but the only pithy statements lately are Rice’s “Franco-American relations work much better in reality than in theory” and Rumsfeld’s response when asked him if he thought the Taliban would fight to the death: “We won’t know that until they’re all dead!”.
Rumsfeld and Rice were appointees though. Have there been any good one-liners by anyone running for the 2008 election?
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The funniest anti-Mac screed yet
via Megan McCardle, here is the best anti-Mac rant so far. Favorite line
Ultimately the campaign’s biggest flaw is that it perpetuates the notion that consumers somehow “define themselves” with the technology they choose. If you truly believe you need to pick a mobile phone that “says something” about your personality, don’t bother. You don’t have a personality. A mental illness, maybe – but not a personality.
In keeping with the theme, one of Megan’s commenters said this
I knew a guy once who would always tell me that I should buy a BMW like he did, because doing so made “a statement about yourself”.
I came to the conclusion that people who bought products to make statements about themselves were mostly saying they were A-holes.
The best I’ve come up with is “The MacIntosh. It’s too good to be useful!”
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Quick Thursday round up
- Interesting solar thermal plant in Nevada.
- George Eastman – founder of Kodak, and the originator of two of my favorite quotes. He named his company Kodak because he thought the letter K was “a strong, incisive sort of letter”. His suicide note was “My work is done. Why wait?”.
- Tech Recipes – Vista Tips
- A good bio of Albert Jay Nock.
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Quick tab clearing round up
- Meanest quote: they “breed like flies but die in the same way.”
- Joaquin Murietta
- The funniest thing I read on Sunday “A small group of the SOF participated in mass nudity and arson as means of protesting against materialism”. Mass nudity and arson! Probably not at the same time though.
- Why the camera adds 10 pounds.
- Bikes must ride single file on Columns Drive
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Quick tab clearing roundup
- The Sunni-Shia Quiz – I got a 100!
- Private solutions to Global Warming
- Ron Paul is running for president! Finally a good republican.
- Engineering Quotes
- Woman Fired For Writing About Avoiding Work
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Quote of the moment
Paraphrased from Brink Lindsay:
Conservatives and liberals both want to return to the 50s. Liberals want to work there and conservatives want to live there.
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Quote of the moment
the GOP has morphed from a party that reveres limited government to a party that is girlishly infatuated with executive authority.
via Althouse
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Monday rapid fire
- An interesting John Robb post – check out the map
- Solar powered home fueling station
- “I’m proud to pay taxes in America, but I could be just as proud for about half the money.” by Arthur Godfrey
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Sunday quotes
“Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.”
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“One of the most fashionable notions of our times is that social problems like poverty and oppression breed wars. Most wars, however, are started by well-fed people with time on their hands to dream up half-baked ideologies or grandiose ambitions, and to nurse real or imagined grievances.”
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Best characterisation of Iraq
From Winston Churchill “An ungrateful volcano”
via Andrew Sullivan on BloggingHeads