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Sympathy for Lacrosse Players Misplaced“Perhaps the outpouring of sympathy for [the falsely arrested Duke lacrosse players] Reade Seligman, Collin Finnerty and David Evans is just a bit misplaced…. As students of Duke University or other elite institutions, these young men will get on with their privileged lives…. They are very differently situated in life from, say, the young women of the Rutgers University women’s basketball team.” - Terry Moran
Journalist wants to get rid of Bush“Probably there should be a rule against it. But there’s a rule against murder. If someone had murdered Hitler — a journalist interviewing him had murdered him — the world would be a better place. I only feel good, as a citizen, about getting rid of George Bush, who has been the most destructive President in my lifetime. I certainly don’t regret it.” - Mark Singer
Bush Worse Than Facist Dictators“You could argue that even the world’s worst fascist dictators at least meant well. They honestly thought [they] were doing good things for their countries by suppressing blacks/eliminating Jews/eradicating free enterprise/repressing individual thought/killing off rivals/invading neighbors, etc….Bush set a new precedent. He came into office with the attitude of ‘I’m so tired of the public good. What about my good? What about my rich friends’ good?’” - Peter Mehlman
America spoils Mercenary Military“Through every Abu Ghraib and Haditha, through every rape and murder, the American public has indulged those in uniform…We pay the soldiers a decent wage, take care of their families, provide them with housing and medical care and vast social support systems and ship obscene amenities into the war zone for them, we support them in every possible way, and their attitude is that we should in addition roll over and play dead, defer to the military and the generals and let them fight their war, and give up our rights and responsibilities to speak up because they are above society?…[T]he recent NBC report is just an ugly reminder of the price we pay for a mercenary — oops, sorry, volunteer — force that thinks it is doing the dirty work.” - William Arkin
Accolades For Bill Clinton“Nobody can bask in applause with quite so much style — the gentle wave, the grin the shape of a sideways comma, the sense that he knows he deserves the accolades and yet is humbled by all the clapping, which makes people clap harder….He still has this way of presenting his ideas for reforms as simple, elegant solutions…” - David Segal
“Ding-dong the witch is dead!”“In fact, my very first thought upon hearing of the Rev. Falwell’s passing was: Good. And I didn’t mean ‘good’ in a oh-good-he’s-gone-home-to-be-with-the-Lord kind of way. I meant ‘good’ as in ‘Ding-dong, the witch is dead.’” - Cathleen Falsani
Term Limits for Marriage“The basic approach is wrong. Many marriages last just because people believe they are safe. My suggestion is that marriages expire after seven years.” - Gabriele Pauli
No forgiveness for Falwell“… I think it’s a pity there isn’t a hell for [Jerry Falwell] to go to…The empty life of this ugly little charlatan proves only one thing, that you can get away with the most extraordinary offenses to morality and to truth in this country if you will just get yourself called reverend…People like that should be out in the street, shouting and hollering with a cardboard sign and selling pencils from a cup….He was a conscious charlatan and bully and fraud. And I think, if he read the Bible at all - and I would doubt that he could actually read any long book of — at all — that he did so only in the most hucksterish, as we say, Bible-pounding way.” - Christopher Hitchens
If you deny global warming, you’re a Nazi“Let’s just say that global warming deniers are now on a par with Holocaust deniers.” - Ellen Goodman
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