BlogBites

August 29th, 2004

In order to get people to vote, we have to charge them up about politics, not hand out freebies and promise alcohol. Utopian Hell >> But, We?re the PRETTY Ones!  

Let’s talk about companies and individuals who are profiteering in the middle of wars that are taking the lives of our soldiers — companies that can’t find the records to back up billions of dollars in overcharges on contracts in the war zone. the Maggot Hammer  

“How did the Party of Lincoln and Liberty transmogrify into the party of Newt Gingrich’s evil spawn and their Etch-A-Sketch president, a dull and rigid man, whose philosophy is a jumble of badly sutured body parts trying to walk?” — Garrison Keillor MaxSpeak, You Listen!  

“Government subsidies can be critically analyzed according to a simple principle: You are smarter than the government, so when the government pays you to do something you wouldn’t do on your own, it is almost always paying you to do something stupid.” — P.J. O’Rourke Heretical Ideas — Challenging the orthdoxy!  

Doing to his secretary what he tried to do to John Kerry… ??TBogg??  

First of all, thank you for pointing out to all of us that Mr. Kerry was never struck by a BULLET. It was only SHRAPNEL that entered his body! Blah3.com  

Every person you see today - unless they have a medical condition - has touched their genitals at least once today. spookee  

From the point of view of democratic theory, American political history is just a random walk through a series of electoral options. Some years, things turn up red; some years, they turn up blue. Alas, a Blog  

I’m not surprised. This was a political stunt, not legislation. A Handful of Sand  

Ok, if that is not enough of a hook then go find the section on sex and cash. Modulator: Advice to Creative Wannabees  

That’s a whole lot of white folks… pig and pepper  

The answer is pretty simple: TITLE IX feministe  

Nothing is more enjoyable than shouting at the top of your lungs to the other butchers that the difficult customer right in front of you is a “on doog cuf ecaf.?” The Morning News  

If this were Papua New Guinea, George W. Bush would slaughter thousands of fattened hogs and invite all of New York to feast on the Great Lawn of Central Park. This year, all we get is a court order to keep off the grass. Preposterous Universe  

As a lifelong fan of various relatively tiny adorable ungulates, this makes me extremely happy. This Modern World