Mighty Forces

"You needn't worry about your reward. If money is all that you love, then that's what you'll receive."
-Princess Leia, "Star Wars"

Memo to the universe: Money is all that I love.

"It's traditional to celebrate the anniversary of your father's death by starting a clothing line."

-Frances Callier on the Stephanie Miller Show this week, talking about Bindi Irwin

"Who's the more foolish: The fool, or the fool who follows him?"

-Obi-Wan Kenobi, "Star Wars"

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."

-Oscar Wilde

"But look now. If we lived in a state where virtue was profitable, common sense would make us saintly. But since we see that avarice, anger, pride and stupidity commonly profit far beyond charity, modesty, justice and thought, perhaps we must stand fast a little...even at the risk of being heroes."

-Thomas More, "A Man for All Seasons"

For voters like them, Huckabee's appeal is pretty plain. "He fears God," said Scott Bailey, from just outside Otley, Iowa, where he's president of a network of conservative Christian home-schoolers. "Apart from that, nothing else matters to me in a candidate."

-Salon article on Mike Huckabee's campaign

Happy 2008, America.

"Most men lead lives of quiet desperation, and go to the grave with the song still in them."
-Henry David Thoreau

I don't want that to be me. The question is, how?

"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for dinner. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.”

-Benjamin Franklin

Loving v. Virginia, anyone?

"If the Bible has taught us nothing else, and it hasn't, it's that girls should stick to girls sports, such as hot oil wrestling and foxy boxing and such and such."

Since I've been sort of a hermit these last couple of years, I haven't had a lot of people to bounce my incessant Simpsons pop cultural references off of. I guess I can do it here, now. Aren't you lucky?

"Does that mean the faggots will have to quit calling us 'breeders'?"

-mouth-breathing Free Republic commenter, on a new poll that says a large majority of American people believe federal hate crimes laws should be expanded to include sexual orientation.