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September 28, 2007

Buy at the bid, not the ask

Chuck Norris never buys at the ask, only the bid.

-- comment in DealBreaker

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October 15, 2006

7 Habits of Highly Successful People.

1. Skiing
2. Yachting
3. Snorkeling
4. Golf
5. Polo
6. Dinner parties
7. Shopping

-- Brendon Lloyd [McSweeneys].

December 28, 2005

Traditional values

For all their crowing about traditional values, it's the right that
has embraced decadence, sadism, vice and corruption.

A very revealing portrait of what's happening in America explains
some things about why the right is so successful. And it's the
opposite of what everybody says it is. It isn't because they've
become more moral and religious. It's because they've fostered
and exploited extremism, nihilism and cruelty.

After all, if it was the libertine culture of "Brokeback Mountain" or
"unwed motherhood" or (gasp) abortion that was creating this
shift, you'd think we would have benefitted, not them. For all
their crowing about traditional values, it's the right that has
embraced decadence, sadism, vice and corruption.

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December 20, 2005

Ronald Reagan, inauguration speech

It is no coincidence that our present troubles parallel and are
proportionate to the intervention and intrusion in our lives
that result from unnecessary and excessive growth of government.

-- Ronald Reagan, inauguration speech 2001.

Reagan was stupid, Reagan did what he was told, Reagan was
a tool of capital, Reagan was such a wuss that some unemployed
filthy termagants on Greenham Common scared him into
changing the foreign policy of the most powerful nation on earth.

-- Bilious Young Fogey

December 15, 2005

Cool is when you aren't

Hips are about sexuality.
-- Joel Piaskowski, chief designer at the Hyundai Kia Design
and Technical Center in California.

Hips are also about hipness, or youth.

But these judgments are often made by designers and auto executives
who are no longer young. Something may seem hip to them because it
evokes their past; to young people, something may be cool because it
envisions their future.

-- PHIL PATTON, NYT.

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December 31, 2004

bully pulpit

On George W. Bush: He does not take the bully pulpit and use it effectively.
But when the chips are down, he does the right thing.

James C. Dobson, Focus on the Family.