Quote of the Week

Yes, Those Were the Days - New York Times: "If Bob Gates had been the first defense secretary, the world would be a much better place today."

Nonsense Writing of the Day

Navy to pull ship named for JFK out of active service - The Boston Globe: "Its hulking size speaks of the era in which it was built. But like that time in US history, the 1,000-foot-long aircraft carrier named for the 35th president has faded."

Andrew Sullivan | The Daily Dish: James Dobson's Nightmare

Andrew Sullivan | The Daily Dish: James Dobson's Nightmare: "Mary Cheney is pregnant and will have a child with her wife of almost twenty years, Heather Poe. Except they live in Virginia which, with the enthusiastic backing of the Republicans, has declared itself homorein, and so no legal protections for Cheney's and Poe's marriage or custody of their child will be available. There is surely coming a point at which the sheer dissonance between what the GOP base believes and the way even the most conservative vice-president in modern times deals with the reality of his own family must surely prompt some kind of Republican adjustment.

You cannot be a party that sees gay love, marriage and parenthood as the work of Satan and have a vice-presidential family that is busy building a lesbian family as an integral part of it. For my part, congratulations to the two moms and best wishes for a healthy, safe pregnancy and birth. And congrats to the lucky grandparents on both sides. Commiserations to James Dobson, Hugh Hewitt, George Allen, Rick Santorum, Sam Brownback, Mitt Romney, and, of course, George W. Bush, who backed a federal constitutional amendment to strip the daughter of his vice-president of dignity, family and civil rights."

Ironic Times - Page Three, November 6, 2006

Ironic Times - Page Three, November 6, 2006: "Vocabulary Builders
chaos n. (technical term used by military) state into which country descends after 3½ years of occupation by foreign power, high unemployment, lack of electricity and potable water, and civil war unleashed by centuries of religious hatreds."

Not every misfortune can be prevented - The Boston Globe

Not every misfortune can be prevented - The Boston Globe: "Not every misfortune can be prevented"

Interesting Reading

ESPN.com: Page 2 : Playing the Shell Game

ESPN.com: Page 2 : Playing the Shell Game: "But I liked this argument from Patrick from Providence: 'If you were trying to market a product why would you ever have Peyton Manning as your spokesman? I mean unless the product was Ipecac. Everytime I see him pushing a cell phone I think, 'Great, that phone will fail when I need to make the most important call ever.' AM I WRONG?'"

Important To Note

ESPN.com: Page 2 : TMQ hoops it up: "If NASA stopped an asteroid or comet strike this would be, well, the greatest achievement in human history."