Quotes of the day

... 'change' is not a destination ... just as "hope" is not a strategy.--Rudy Giuliani

I hope for his sake, Joe Biden got that VP thing in writing.--Rudy Giuliani

What can I say? Sometimes sexism works in womens' favor.--Megan McArdle

The world shook; the world trembled.--Sarah Palin RNC video

I know, I know, it sounds nihilistic. But in some sense it's liberating: If no-one truly knows anything -- beyond the simplistic bromides, like plant your corn early, avoid excessive leverage, etc. -- then the world is your Etch-a-Sketch, isn't it?--Paul Kedrosky

The wise man has eyes in his head,
while the fool walks in the darkness;
but I came to realize
that the same fate overtakes them both.--King Solomon

Palin touched on the ideology of the soccer mom - the belief that they are tough as nails, that they would fight to the death for their kids, that men underestimate them, that their job is just as hard as any man's. Michelle [Obama] missed the boat on that one.--Laura McKenna

When a man agonizes that a woman is 'brutally cutting,' I reach for my Freud ...--Ann Althouse

Obama's spokesman just rebutted Palin ['s speech] by saying that George Bush’s former speechwriter wrote the speech. That’s a good way to ensure the total irrelevance of your statement. Palin: Obama is unfit to lead. Obama: I don’t approve of your speechwriter.--Noah Pollak

Unlike the wife of another political candidate who shall remain nameless, [Cindy McCain] didn’t come [to cohost The View] with a list of topics we weren’t allowed to touch.”--Elizabeth Hasselbeck

The Sara[h] Palin speech generated 37.2 million viewers, just a 1.1 million viewers short of Barak Obama’s record-breaking speech on Day 4 of the Democratic Convention. The Palin speech was carried on only six networks while the Obama speech was carried on ten (including BET, TV One, Univision and Telemundo).--A.C. Nielsen

... the coastal elites earn the revulsion of Middle America. They don't, to coin a phrase, hate us for our freedoms--our homosexual coddling, abortion loving ways. They hate us because we act like we think we deserve to rule them.--Megan McArdle

The way you explore complex ecosystems is you just try lots and lots and lots of things, and you hope that everybody who fails fails informatively so that you can at least find a skull on a pikestaff near where you're going. That's the phase we're in now.--Clay Shirky, on the "cognitive surplus" of participative media

Hamas has an image problem, and it's getting worse. It's gotten so bad that the 30 year old son (Mosab Yousef) of one of the Hamas founders (Hassan Yousef) has not only renounced Hamas, but has become a Christian. Mosab is fed up with the terrorism/"destroy Israel" approach the Arab world has embraced over the last sixty years. Mosad notes, as have many other Arabs, that this has not worked. --StrategyPage