Archive for September 2008
“I’ll get the dictionary.” – Hugh Parkfield “Why?” – Lisa Simpson “You’ll see when you get there, the word ‘Stochastic’.” – Hugh Parkfield “Pertaining to a process involving a randomly determined sequence of observations!” – Lisa Simpson The last week of the presidential campaign has been so incoherent that there’s no point trying to craft [...]
“You know, I have a feeling there’s a lesson here.” – Homer Simpson “Yes, the lesson is-” – Marge Simpson “No, don’t tell me. I’ll get it.” – Homer Simpson In a campaign speech last August Barack Obama said, “If we have actionable intelligence about high-value terrorist targets and President Musharraf will not act, we [...]
“I only have two questions, ‘How much?’, and ‘Give it to me’.” – Homer Simpson The sight of Republicans and Democrats rapidly agreeing with each other is always cause for anxiety, especially when it happens less than two months away from a leap year election. This is the most partisan time on the political calendar, [...]
“Are you trying to piss off the volcano?” – Peter Griffin The last three days have seen frightening, bewildering and undeniably grim news coming from the financial sector. There’s trouble there, in that “financial sector”, but other than that it is all very bad and is going to cost billions to solve even an educated [...]
“I don’t mind you boys doing this in the living room, but in court doesn’t Bart have to tell the truth?” – Marge Simpson “Yeah, but what is truth? If you follow me.” – Lionel Hutz John McCain is under a lot of pressure these days. His relatively comfortable and relaxed existence being a Senator [...]
“A boat’s a boat, but the mystery box could be anything! It could even be a boat!” – Peter Griffin Yesterday TomDispatch had a short, succinct article, authored by Andrew Bacevich, about the utter failure of Bush the Younger’s foreign. In addition to being one of the most thoughtful conservative critics of the current Administration’s [...]
“What about being an illiterate TV clown who’s still more respected than all the scientists, doctors and educators in the country put together?” – Bart Simpson As someone who enjoys writing and bullshitting about politics I’m the natural audience for cable news but I almost never watch it anymore. Over the course of the nineties [...]
“Hi Dad, anything new in the paper today?” – Jay Sherman “Oh . . . usual stuff . . . big type here, little type here.” – Franklin Sherman I do not know who does layout work at The New York Times but someone deserves a pat on the back for a nice little juxtaposition [...]
