“The difference between America and England is that Americans think 100 years is a long time, while the English think 100 miles is a long way.”
Earle Hitchner
“Once we’re thrown off our habitual paths, we think all is lost, but it’s only here that the new and the good begins.”
Leo Tolstoy
“I won’t insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said.”
William F. Buckley, Jr.
” It’s so beautifully arranged on the plate — you know someone’s fingers have been all over it.”
Julia Child (on Nouvelle Cuisine)
”Frequently on administrative forms, the options for marital status are single, married, and divorced. (How is ‘divorced’ a status? Isn’t that just single?)”
Scott Galloway
The media business keeps trying to ruin Jesse Singal and Katie Herzog, and they keep prospering. On the loony Substack controversy, and the paradox of moral panic in media.
Matt Taibbi
”Joe Biden Makes Shocking Announcement: None of His Children or Grandchildren Will Be Named Senior Advisers to the President.”
Vanity Fair
2021
“For the party to move forward, we got to move the party with Donald Trump. There’s no way to be a successful Republican Party without having President Trump working with all of us and all of us working with him. That’s just a fact. And I think we got a decent chance of coming back in 2022. But we can’t do it without the President.”
Lindsay Graham, 2021
2016
“If we nominate Trump we will get destroyed. And we will deserve it.”
Lindsay Graham, 2016
”The last couple of years has seen a slight resurgence in the personal blog and I hope 2021 continues that trend!”
Chris Bowler
Amen
It used to be that we lived in private and chose to make parts of our lives public. Now that is being turned on its head. We live in public, like the movie says (except via micro-signals not 24–7 video self-surveillance), and choose what parts of our lives to keep private.
Ben Schott - 2010 - TEN YEARS AGO