My Cake Is Dough

"Climate change can't come quick enough." -Alexander Cockburn

"A moderate shoots the wogs with rubber bullets." -Margaret Thatcher

"Change you can bleed in." -David Cameron

"Politico? Is that some sort of condom?" -Bill Clinton

"I can't stand Pitchfork."- Pierre Bourdieu

"Crave the whip, it cracks only to forgive." - Adam Kirsch

"I gave you but Cadbury Eggs, and now you want steel!" - Nate Silver

"But did you like it?" -Larry King

"The dream ended when Ronnie turned the pumpkin into a Sherman Tank and we rode through Nicaragua together." - Peggy Noonan

"If only the cigarettes would get the taste out." -Edward R Murrow

"Soakin Wet!" -Brian Williams

"And when I looked into the eyes of those people who had lost all that they held dear I know that I never would open my eyes again during physical love." -Anderson Cooper

"That's it? For that much?" -Sarah Palin

"Arabs!" -Marty Peretz

"I think people are really going to enjoy this summer's special project." -David Eggers

"Once I realized that people in India shit sitting down like we do, I knew that nothing would be the same again." -Thomas Friedman

"Why fucking bother." -The Editors of Harper's

Clench your teeth and kill the poor

"Yes means yes." - Olivia Munn

"Really? Another skinny white bitch? Another disposable blonde? But no. The problem is not Lady Gaga. She knows what she is--she has probably written a term paper about it. The problem is you."
- Simon Cowell

"Fight them? Can you fight the wind?" - Dmitri Medvedev on FIFA

Hardtalk: How is it that a man who is so fat can be so slippery?

Chavez: When he has History on his side, Stephen.

"The whole of Pink Floyd, what they tried and failed to do, is in "Good Morning". You could listen to The Wall, or us in two minutes."
- John Lennon, 1991

"There is but one thought that haunts my days and keeps sweet repose forever at bay: that I have not gone far enough."
- William Tecumseh Sherman

This concerns everyone

The Sun is setting in the West and rising in the East.

It is time for new adventures, to set out to new places, people, and things.

Move, move, move, before it is too late, before
you become yourself.

To stay on the crest of the wave, on the cusp of opportunity--"To know what comes next--that is the art of being a Frenchman."-- How to free your self from yourself, without enslaving yourself or merely rendering yourself up too much to another thing?

Rationalize everything--except your body.

I am running on empty. It is time to refill.

For the first time in along time, I want to live. How can I make this moment last--not as a Feeling, but as an Idea?

If you live for Ideas, you may be lucky enough to experience that Feeling a few more times. And if not, then at least you tried.

"Virtue is its own reward."--a maxim sorely misunderstood. What it really means is:
"Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger."

-- from the diary of Barack Hussein Obama II, May 1988

National Defense

"I have tamed men of iron in my day, shall I not easily crush these men of butter?" - Vincente del Bosque

"I will be Queen!" - Sir Walter Raleigh

"Landon Donovan for US Supreme Commander" - Stanley McChrystal

"Roger Rabbit's wife is a cold war erotic superweapon." - Richard Nixon

"We are a conquering race. We must obey our blood and occupy new markets and if necessary new lands." - Peter Beinart

"Women will lie down with the serpent before this litigation is resolved." - Scott Brown

"All you need to make America horny is a bunch of light bulbs." - John Wanamaker

"The desire to conquer is itself a sort of subjection." - Barack Obama