“Sundance is weird. The movies are weird. You actually have to think about them when you watch them.”

The history of men’s opposition to women’s emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.

VH1 ranks this as the 19th Greatest Song of the 90s:

You probably don’t want to know even half of the songs that rank ahead of it, but I’ve included one after the jump for your amusement.

“A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.”

“People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.”

“Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.”

“Live forever or die in the attempt.”

“A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?”

“You only live once - but if you work it right, once is enough.”

“To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given the chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy. As everyone else, I love to dunk my crust in it. But alone, it is not a diet designed to keep body and soul together.”

“A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things.”

“All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.”

From the debate,

Moderator Gwen Ifill: The next question is…about the subprime lending meltdown. Who do you think was at fault? I start with you, Gov. Palin. Was it the greedy lenders? Was it the risky home buyers who shouldn’t have been buying a home in the first place? And what should you be doing about it?

Palin: Darn right it was the predator lenders, who tried to talk Americans…

I think I’d like to be remembered as someone who beat the odds through just plain determination. … that I persevered.
Because I think that being somewhat of a pest to life, constantly plaguing and pursuing, will bring results.
- Sylvester Stallone (1946-) American Actor
      

We’ve known for some time that CPT Beau Biden, son of VP nominee Joe, is headed off to Iraq. Dad sent them off with a farewell address today:

Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden told his son and other Delaware National Guard troops on Friday that his heart was “full of love and pride” as they prepared to leave for an assignment in Iraq.

“We take comfort in…

Congress has passed the bailout now that the three page bill has expanded in size a hundredfold and it has been larded with some good old pork:

With the economy on the brink and elections looming, Congress approved an unprecedented $700 billion government bailout of the battered financial industry on Friday and sent it to President Bush for his certain signature.

The final vote was 263-171 in…

One of the interesting points of contention in last night’s vice presidential debate between Delaware Senator Joe Biden and Alaska Governor Sarah Palin was on the topic of whether an Iraq-style surge would work in Afghanistan.   Earlier in the day, Army General David McKiernan (or, as he’s sometimes known in Alaska, “McClellan”), commander of NATO’s International…

Give me a lever long enough, and I shall move the world.

Matt Yglesias snarks,

A lot of people are wondering who the “McClellan” character was that Sarah Palin was referring to, with many guessing that she’s been consulting long-dead failed Civil War General George McClellan for advice on Afghanistan. But another colleague suggested that she’s mentally combined General McKiernan, the commanding officer in Afghanistan, and David Kilcullen into a…

As Dave Schuler has been predicting for a while now, the financial crisis is starting to hit state governments.

California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, alarmed by the ongoing national financial crisis, warned Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson on Thursday that the state might need an emergency loan of as much as $7 billion from the federal government within weeks. The warning comes as California…

A CBS News poll finds that Joe Biden did better than Sarah Palin among undecideds but that both candidates helped their tickets.

Forty-six percent of the uncommitted voters surveyed say Democrat Joe Biden won the debate, compared to 21 percent for Republican Sarah Palin. Thirty-three percent said it was a tie.

Eighteen percent of previously uncommitted percent say they are now committed to the…

“There is no greater joy nor greater reward than to make a fundamental difference in someone’s life.”
– Sister Mary Rose McGeady
      

No diet will remove all the fat from your body because the brain is entirely fat. Without a brain you might look good, but all you could do is run for public office.