“I am persuaded that if it's that important to you to minimize your impact on the planet, you should immediately throw yourself in front of a speeding SUV.  You'll stop emitting carbon dioxide rather quickly, and you might actually total the SUV.  Win/win, as they say.” - C.G. Hill

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“Wherever there is a jackboot stomping on a human face there will be a well-heeled Western liberal to explain that the face does, after all, enjoy free health care and 100 percent literacy.” - John Derbyshire

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“The synonym for bipartisan is ‘in cahoots.’” - Don Surber

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“If one’s relationship with the opposite sex resembles a country-western song, it’s time the reassess one’s principles. Or get into the music business.” – “Elle,” in a comment at View From the Porch

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“I still find it hard to believe that the invention of the catapult preceded the invention of the computer...; nothing in human history exceeds the ability of the computer to make its user want to construct a device that hurls heavy objects as far away as possible.” – James Lileks

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“Some people deserve to live in a police state. The ones who want to live in a police state are generally the ones who think they will be the police.” - Bill Quick

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“Catholics used to complain that anti-Catholicism was the Antisemitism of the intellectuals, but this was before the intellectuals went back to  antisemitism.” â€“ Tom Smith

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“I began to deconstruct everything I could get my hands on... The Old Testament, Shakespeare, Dick and Jane, a 1967 J.C. Whitney catalog, the Boston phone book, you name it. I showed how everything is a lie, that everything could be deconstructed. Well, except Deconstruction, obviously.” – “Grok,” as told to Iowahawk (hattip: “Jake”)

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“It is my belief that God put pets on this Earth to clearly establish to his creation that we are not God. We can't make them stay with us, no matter how much we spend, love, worry, or do.” -- Mike James, commenting at Hog On Ice

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“I don’t see mistrust of science as a bad thing. A true scientist can always prove his work, without requiring trust. A scientist who demands trust is a scientist with too much emotional attachment to his agenda to be trusted.” – “Tatterdemalian,” commenting at Tim Blair.

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