January 2012
1 post
NY Times: You’ve long argued for the decriminalization of marijuana. Do you smoke weed?
Barney Frank: No.
NY Times: Why not?
Barney Frank: Why do you ask a question, then act surprised when I give an answer? Do you think I lie to people?
NY Times: I thought you might explain why you support decriminalizing it but don’t smoke it.
Barney Frank: Do you think I’ve ever had an abortion? I don’t play poker on the Internet, either.
December 2011
2 posts
November 2011
8 posts
“Most people would rather be certain they’re miserable than risk being...”
– Robert Anthony
“We’ve heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce...”
– Robert Wilensky
Amazing. xkcd: Money Chart →
October 2011
7 posts
“A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never...”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt
September 2011
8 posts
“If mankind minus one were of one opinion, then mankind is no more justified in...”
– John Stuart Mill
“Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream...”
– Edgar Allan Poe
“I have opinions of my own — strong opinions — but I don’t...”
– George Bush
“Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.”
– Abraham Lincoln
1 tag
August 2011
6 posts
“If I only had a little humility, I’d be perfect.”
– Ted Turner
July 2011
4 posts
June 2011
13 posts
“John Wayne was from Waterloo, Iowa,” Mrs. Bachmann told Carl Cameron of Fox News in an interview. “That’s the kind of spirit that I have, too.”
The actor was actually born in Winterset, Iowa, which is about 150 miles southwest of Waterloo. It was John Wayne Gacy, known as the killer clown who raped and murdered 33 teenage boys in the 1970s, who lived in Waterloo.
“There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in...”
– Victor Hugo
“Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.”
– Laurence J. Peter
May 2011
13 posts
