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2011  Quotes
Everyone loves a witch hunt as long as it’s someone else’s witch being hunted.

—Walter Kirn

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Shrouded as he was for a decade in an apparent cloak of anonymity and obscurity, Osama bin Laden was by no means an invisible man. He was ubiquitous and palpable, both in a physical and...

—Christopher Hitchens

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This country has a UFO problem, after all. You might not have been aware we have one, or thought about it in these terms, but we do have a UFO problem: namely, we don’t seem...

—Steve Volk

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The great cause of the new Republican intake is the reduction of the deficit but to anyone seeking evidence of sincere attempts at deficit-reduction the evidence is baffling. The Republicans showed before Christmas that they...

—James Fenton

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Knowing, above all, that I would come looking, and find what he had left for me, all that remained of The Jungle Book in the pocket of his doctor’s coat, that folder-up, yellowed page torn...

—Téa Obreht

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Frank White, who literally wrote the book on the overview effect, is also part of the Overview Institute. And he thinks of space travel largely as Mitchell does—an evolutionary step. “If fish could think at...

—Frank White

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The British version of ‘Shit My Dad Says’ is really entertaining.

—Jeremy Scahill

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bobbybaird i’m a writer, so are you. we try to compose our thoughts and words for effect as well as sense. vain of us? a bit.

—Walter Kirn

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At one conference Hameroff told Dennett, publicly, “You know, Dan, maybe the reason you like this [mechanistic] idea is because you’re a zombie. And maybe the reason I see things differently is because, I’m not.”Hameroff...

—Hameroff

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I am just mystified by these people telling me I would think Obama was doing a great job if his skin contained less melanin.

—Jonah Goldberg

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We can’t tell you the origin of the experience. But we can tell you the brain does appear to be built to have these [mystical] experiences. There are examples of people reaching similar states, spontaneously....

—Andrew B. Newberg

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When Loughner himself speaks and we find out his real influences are Spiderman, ‘Gnome Chomsky,’ Taylor Swift, and Dr. Bronner, then what?

—Walter Kirn

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The American people are fed up…with political posturing.’ True, but also an example of political posturing.

—James Taranto

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I think there needs to be a meeting to set an agenda for more meetings about meetings.

—Jonah Goldberg

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Republicans know well that a change of rhetorical pace is necessary. But efforts by their leaders to damp down the bellicosity of newly elected Tea Party types is running into the fact that the Tea...

—Alexander Cockburn

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Memo to extreme partisans: If you can’t bring yourselves to love your enemies, can you at least learn to hate your friends?

—Walter Kirn

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Because of racism, he can’t govern effectively’ is not a great argument for re-election.

—James Taranto

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Gov. Christie says ‘New Jersey First.’ State-based Isolationism!

—Jonah Goldberg

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Nice mix of Tory MPs saying this issue shouldn’t be used for petty political pointscoring, & Tory MPs trying to score petty political points.

—Andy Zaltzman

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Given Loughner’s obsession with meaninglessness and language, maybe Foucault & Derrida deserve some fault here, too.

—Walter Kirn

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Some libs took offense at my David Broder quip earlier. In my own defense, I was taught in college it’s OK to disrespect dead white males.

—James Taranto

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One upside of the heat. Kind of cool to see a cat pant.

—Jonah Goldberg

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To all the revolutionaries fighting to throw off the yoke of tyranny around the world: look at British democracy. Is that what you want?

—Andy Zaltzman

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The Labour party on the whole has not been a very effective opposition since the election, partly because it spent months and months electing its new leader. I think the Labour party should, for one...

—Eric J.

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Tip to all British tabloids: Do Not Hack Amy Winehouse’s Phone. I repeat: Do Not Hack Amy Winehouse’s Phone.

—Jonah Goldberg

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A jacketless Murdoch resumes his quiz, brushing off the assault as ‘an overexcited autograph-hunter wanting to have his shaving foam signed.

—Andy Zaltzman

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This is how it works now with the news: the story begins with a moral, then a narrative is fashioned to support it.

—Walter Kirn

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Kid 1: *examining my gorgeous strawberry and blueberry pies*: Wow, Mom, your pies don’t look awful this time.Me (Ilona): …~A little later~Kid 2: *wandering into the kitchen*Kid 1: Hey, you’ve got to see these pies....

—Ilona Andrews

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Not reassuring when weathermen say ‘Today will be terrible but don’t worry it won’t be as terrible as tomorrow or Friday.

—Jonah Goldberg

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Genghis Miliband roars up to the despatch box like a caged donkey.

—Andy Zaltzman

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[T]he anti-vitriol vitriol is getting ugly.

—Walter Kirn

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My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we’ll change the world.

—Jack Layton

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Tom Friedman says China is so awesome they make kosher pigs.

—Jonah Goldberg

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The rich run a global system that allows them to accumulate capital and pay the lowest possible price for labour. The freedom that results applies only to them. The many simply have to work harder,...

—Charles Moore

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These are tough times for state governments. Huge deficits loom almost everywhere, from California to New York, from New Jersey to Texas.Wait—Texas? Wasn’t Texas supposed to be thriving even as the rest of America suffered?...

—Paul Krugman

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American political culture quickly and always outpaces any attempt to satirize it.

—Glenn Greenwald

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I realise I’m behind on this but Rebekah Brooks was married to Ross Kemp of Gangs fame?! And she assaulted him? That explains so much.

—Mandy Wiener

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It can certainly be misleading to take the attributes of a movement, or the anxieties and contradictions of a moment, and to personalize or ‘objectify’ them in the figure of one individual. Yet ordinary discourse...

—Christopher Hitchens

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It is the finding of neuroscience, in fact, that belief is at least in part a matter of emotion. Whatever we believe to be true lights up areas of our brain responsible for self-identification and...

—Steve Volk

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Incestuous, homogeneous fiefdoms of self-proclaimed expertise are always rank-closing and mutually self-defending, above all else.

—Glenn Greenwald

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I got my dad a great father’s Day present. He called to say: ‘Ach. Zis present is so good I now think it vas almost vorth having children.

—Johann Hari

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