from a Digg commenter, on the Jodie Foster movie “Contact”:
“After I saw that movie, I began to think maybe it’s best we don’t talk to other worlds. We might inadvertently convert the aliens into to believing in a guy who died two thousand years ago cuz he was telling the religious leaders of his time they were all wrong. What did we do? We built another religion around his teachings. Something tells me that’s SO not what he had in mind.”
“Freedom fighters don’t always win. But they’re always right.”
-Molly Ivins
God, I miss you, Molly.
“I can only read ‘haggard old hole’ so many times before it starts to hurt.”
-Kathy Griffin riffs on her online celebrity coverage
“You needn’t worry about your reward. If money is all that you love, then that’s what you’ll receive.”
-Princess Leia, “Star Wars”
Memo to the universe: Money is all that I love.
“It’s traditional to celebrate the anniversary of your father’s death by starting a clothing line.”
-Frances Callier on the Stephanie Miller Show this week, talking about Bindi Irwin
“Who’s the more foolish: The fool, or the fool who follows him?”
-Obi-Wan Kenobi, “Star Wars”
“But look now. If we lived in a state where virtue was profitable, common sense would make us saintly. But since we see that avarice, anger, pride and stupidity commonly profit far beyond charity, modesty, justice and thought, perhaps we must stand fast a little…even at the risk of being heroes.”
-Thomas More, “A Man for All Seasons”
For voters like them, Huckabee’s appeal is pretty plain. “He fears God,” said Scott Bailey, from just outside Otley, Iowa, where he’s president of a network of conservative Christian home-schoolers. “Apart from that, nothing else matters to me in a candidate.”
-Salon article on Mike Huckabee’s campaign
Happy 2008, America.
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