Bornfamous

“You know back in 2000 a Republican friend of mine warned me that if I voted for Al Gore and he won, the stock market would tank, we’d lose millions of jobs, and our military would be totally overstretched. You know what? I did vote for Al Gore, he did win, and I’ll be [...]

You must read and read, and learn to read as writers read, understanding what the writer is doing–just as a would-be stand-up comic (to take a simple example) not only may laugh at the jokes s/he hears but also takes note of how the jokes are constructed, why they work, and how they are delivered. [...]

I think I’m going to start giving out awards for great blog quotes, starting with this one. It’s a classic:

For nine months I grew a human being inside my belly and then I pushed it out my vagina and now I?m feeding it with my boob. Biology is so fucking weird.

A totalitarian state is in effect a theocracy, and its ruling caste, in order to keep its position, has to be thought of as infallible. But since, in practice, no one is infallible, it is frequently necessary to rearrange past events in order to show that this or that mistake was not made, or that [...]

… Then it was as if I suddenly saw the secret beauty of their hearts,
the depths where neither sin nor desire can reach,
the person that each one is in God’s eyes.
If only they could see themselves as they really are.
If only we could see each other that way,
there would be no reason for war, for [...]

My mother told me to keep on singing, and that kept me working through the cotton fields. She said God has his hand on you. You’ll be singing for the world someday.
–Johnny Cash, 1932-2003

By Molly Ivins
AUSTIN, Texas ? Happy birthday, America! Two-hundred twenty-seven years old and still ready to boogie ’til we puke. What a great country. Another glorious year in the land of the free and the home of the brave, with only the usual idiocy attendant.
As you may recall, we are fond of celebrating in this [...]

You may say I’m a dreamer, But I’m not the only one, I hope someday you’ll join us, And the world will live as one.
– John Lennon

In the 60’s people took acid to make the world weird. Now the world is weird and people take Prozac to make it normal.
- kd

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
- Kierkegaard

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
- Robert Frost

Before our kids start coming home from Iraq in body bags and women and children start dying in Baghdad, I need to know, “What did Iraq do to us?”
–Susan Sarandon

Men often mistake notoriety for fame, and would rather be remarked for their vices than not be noticed at all.
- Harry S. Truman

Puritanism is the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
- H.L. Mencken

I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
–Albert Einstein