January 2009
109 posts
“Even as he is sober about these challenges, I have never seen him happier,” Mr....”
– that has made him a very happy man.”
“God appeared to me in a dream last night and spoke your name in my ear. He gave...”
– What is so wrong is, I would totally write now to box 5729 in regards to that.
AUTOMAGICALLY.
New favorite word, 1/25/09 edition.
“We can’t keep blaming 43 for everything, especially now that we don’t have him...”
– even Obama’s opening salutation — “My fellow citizens,” not “fellow Americans” — invoked the civic responsibilities we’ve misplaced en masse.
“When Johnson stepped to the lectern on Capitol Hill that night, he adopted the...”
– Martin Luther King was watching the speech at the home of a family in Selma with some of his aides, none of whom had ever, during all the hard years, seen Dr. King cry. But Lyndon Johnson said, “We shall overcome” — and they saw him cry then. And there was another indication of the power of that...
“Eater reports today that it received notice of a dining deal from the...”
– Men really are children these days. “I like to be comfortable.” “I feel strangled by a tie.” “I hate dressing up.” Why don’t you just unbutton your pants, take off your shoes and prop your stocking feet up on the checkered tablecloth while you’re at...
“Scooter Libby is one of the most capable and honorable men I’ve ever known,” Mr....”
– As if any of us want to have any idea about the LESS capable and honorable men DICK Cheney knows.
“So, just to be clear, if you’re a lady and you ‘fess up to an unhealthy online...”
– If you’re a chick who sleeps around and lives to tell (and sell) the tale, you’re greedy, vain and charmless. If you’re a guy who spends nights on end looking at Internet porn and days investing in drug companies that overcharge cancer patients for their cures, then you’re “formidably smart.”
“George Clooney is filming scenes this week on NBC’s ER, where he will...”
– Fina-freakin’-lly.
“After thanking President Bush “for his service to our nation,” Mr. Obama...”
– With W. looking on, and probably gradually realizing with irritation, as he did with Colbert, who Mr. Obama’s target was — (Is he talking about me? Is 44 saying I messed everything up?) — the newly minted president let him have it.
“For well over two centuries, the United States has been vastly more diverse than...”
– “Our family is new in terms of the White House, but I don’t think it’s new in terms of the country,” Maya Soetoro-Ng, the president’s younger half-sister, said last week. “I don’t think the White House has always reflected the textures and flavors of this country.”
“In Hebrew, the words tikkun olam (תיקון עולם) connote the moral imperative to...”
– It is easier to go downhill than up; one is as simple as tipping over and allowing gravity to pull you, while the other will test your sinews as you climb. It will test your mind. But if we do not climb, we cannot but fall again.
WatchMust. Get. Green. JCrew. Gloves.
“Chief Justice John Roberts, using no notes, flubbed his lines, and Obama knew...”
– It all eventually got sorted out.” He knew what he was doing, not voting for you, John Roberts!!! Bleagh you.
CNN, Get Ahold of Your Tacky Reporter
“Just look around, all of these smiling African-American faces… Have you ever seen that?”
Get that @ss off the air, pronto.
Yes, I Will Freakin' Pray, and Hard, About This
HBO needed to cut him out, but I got this shit at church on Sunday, so ha on you, HBO. (And it was courtesy of GQ, and everyone cheered, so double ha.)
O GOD, we give you thanks for your child Barack as he assumes the office of the President of the United States. Give him wisdom beyond his years, and inspire him with Lincoln’s reconciling leadership, FDR’s courageous boldness &...
“Yes he can.”
– The question in my mind right now is: can we?
“Of all the coverage of Obama’s victory, the most accurate take may still be the...”
– Nearly three months after Election Day, it remains astonishing that the American people have entrusted the job to a young black man who seemed to come out of nowhere looking for that kind of work just as we most needed him.
“Another passenger heard someone cry, “Get the baby out!” Mr. Wentzell, the door...”
– He passed them off to a stranger standing at the door, who helped them onto a wing.
“He continues to address me as Smitty,”
– a name I haven’t been called since Little League.” I hear ya, pal. I know.
“That pilot is a stud. After the crash, he was sitting there in the ferry...”
– — A police source. Ha! Love it.
“Only in France is the recession lauded for posing a crisis in values.”
– I love you, France.
“We now have a generation of parents more likely to have struggled through racism...”
– “and less likely to have a need to break from them. It’s really interesting, in my seminars my 20-something students all say, ‘My mother felt like she had to break with her own mother but I feel like my mother is my strongest ally.’ ”
“It all felt strangely intimate and, occasionally, uncomfortable, in the manner...”
– Farewell, Jorge. I’ll be working while you pontificate, I guess. I’m sure a low-lights reel will suffice.
“I’ve never been to a strip club and never much felt inclined to go....”
– This guy might be my Constant. I mean, if I ever met him or knew him. (I’m not just hopped-up on cranberry tea & watching LOST & saying that…)