random quotes ... to amuse, inspire, enrage:
  "Why does the Council have so many rules?" Violet asked.

"Why does anyone have a lot of rules?" Hector said with a shrug. "So they can boss people around, I guess."

tagged: government, hierarchy
  —Lemony Snicket, The Vile Village: A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book the Seventh, Chapter 3, p.56 (2001) - by Lemony Snicket.

“looks an awful lot like a political assassination”

Thursday, November 4th, 2010

I was interested to read this review of the new documentary, ‘Client 9′, about the Eliot Spitzer takedown. The reviewer, O’Hehir, describes it as, “an act that in retrospect looks an awful lot like a political assassination.” Ya think? “Politician caught with pants down” and “White knight has feet of clay” are stories we’re all [...]


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