Did you know Ashcroft covered a statues tits? I didn't.

We cannot allow activist local elected officials to thumb their nose at 5,000 years of human history and determine that marriage is something else.

I wonder if he thinks 5000 years is how old the world is, or if that's just how long people have been getting married.

A tall young woman in a canary yellow jacket, stalked in, eating crisps. "Yes, I'm looking for a husband in Shanghai," she said. She pressed a crisp sulkily between her red lips and crunched it. "Because it's not easy for a girl to get by. It's so complicated. Shanghai is a beautiful city and a dream. Everybody in China wants to go to Shanghai."

rapists get community service

To point out that the evangelicals voted in the same proportion for Bush as they did in 2000 gets a fact right and misses the point. What matters is that the Bush vote by these folks did not erode in the face of catastrophic management of post-invasion Iraq, prisoner atrocities, transformation of the surplus into a suffocating deficit and terrible ( Read more... )

When we have passed a certain age, the soul of the child that we were and the souls of the dead from whom we spring come and bestow upon us in handfuls their treasures and their calamities, asking to be allowed to cooperate in the new sentiments which we are feeling and in which, obliterating their former image, we recast them in an original ( Read more... )

When it is in this way, from an hour of anguish caused by another person, when it is from uncertainty whether we shall be able to keep her or she will escape, that love is born, such love bears the mark of the revolution that has created it, it recalls very little of what we had previously seen when we thought of the person in question.

Vietnam will be as nothing compared with what we are going to do here

(she in whose heart of hearts there was now regularly installed an idea of myself so familiar that, next to her aunt, I was perhaps the person whom she distinguished least from herself)

[L]ove is nothing more than the association of the face of a girl (whom otherwise we should soon have found intolerable) with the heartbeats inseparable from an endless, vain expectation, and from some trick that she has played upon us. All this is true not merely of imaginative young men brought into contact with changeable girls.