“I feel like maybe I shouldn’t have admitted that I have Elvis Costello’s sweat on a piece of toilet paper.”
“Generally, devotion like that freaks me out. Big time.”
“You are now free to get swept up in the tale of epic romance and frozen corpses, secure in the knowledge that the skies above them are astronomically accurate.”
“‘One Million Hijabs for Shaima Alawadi,’ a recently created Facebook page, had nearly 10,000 likes on Monday and hundreds of photos.”
“A person who loves is a righteous person, and if someone has the ability and desire to show love another – to someone willing to receive it, then for goodness’ sake, let them do it.”
“Well, you have discovered that Drake is a part of American civilization, and your fellow Americans can’t stand it that you have behaved in such an uncivilized way.”
“I concur that climate change is beginning to effect on our natural resources and that now is the time to take action toward climate protection.”
“Last month was the warmest March on record across half of the United States.”
“The sheer number of vehicles being added in Asia means a whole new level of competition for oil. It’s a competition that Asia will almost surely win, and will probably do more to drive the adoption of electric cars in the U.S. than any policy or tax credit.”
Charles Colson “had successful surgery on Saturday to remove a pool of clotted blood from the surface of his brain. Doctors confirm that he did not have a stroke, and he is now resting comfortably.”
“Some of the state’s largest schools — including Penn State, Temple and the State System of Higher Education colleges, such as Kutztown and East Stroudsburg universities — issue student IDs that can’t be used at the polls under the new law.”
“The problem isn’t that the dogs aren’t capable of picking up the scent, it’s that dogs have been bred to please and interact with humans.”
“If there is one part of you that you have a right to keep private, under normal circumstances, it is your ‘private parts.’”
“The Tax Foundation released its annual ‘Tax Freedom Day’ report today that, once again, leaves a strikingly misleading impression of tax burdens …”
“He has no idea that what he’s proposing is against the law because he has no idea about so many things that sometimes he just loses track.”
“Let’s talk bluntly: The goal of the Ryan budget is to cut the poor, the weak, the young, the sick and the elderly adrift from federal support in order to save money for the wealthy.”
“We should go beyond the shriveled thinking imposed upon us by today’s mania for austerity.”
(Post title because today is Richard Thompson’s 63rd birthday.)
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