From the AP, Democrat senator Harry Reid regarding his relationship with Republican senator John Ensign:
He’s a Republican, I’m a Democrat, we work together on issues that are important to the state of Nevada. And I wish other people had the same nonaggression pact we have,” Reid told reporters. “It’s not a ‘Brokeback Mountain’ situation,” he added.
Um, okay.
We’ll just take your word for it on that one.
“Do you know where you end up if you don’t study, if you aren’t smart, if you’re intellectually lazy? You end up getting us stuck in a war in Iraq. Just ask President Bush.”
(from The New York Times)
“I had hoped I was saying goodbye to a type of business,” Viacom Chairman Sumner Redstone told former Disney chief Michael Eisner on Eisner’s CNBC talk show Monday, referring to Paramount’s break with Tom Cruise’s production company.
“We were paying too much to the stars, and stars don’t make a picture, the script does. We were paying too much and getting too little.”
(From IMDb.)
“I’ve been putting rose in an empty Gatorade bottle and drinking it in the park.”
Jesse Salazar, the wine director of Union Square Wine and Spirits in Manhattan, from a NY Times article about the increasing popularity of rose with New York hipsters.
Wow. The indieWIRE team was chugging the pink drink two summers ago. Now if we only had matching black dyed mullets and 70’s metal redneck t-shirts we’d be set.
From an email making the rounds, which according to Snopes, is pretty much accurate and captures the gist and setting of Professor Raskin’s statement:
On Wednesday, March 1, 2006, at a hearing on the proposed Constitutional Amendment to prohibit gay marriage, Jamie Raskin, professor of law at AU, was requested to testify.
At the end of his testimony, Republican Senator Nancy Jacobs said: “Mr. Raskin, my Bible says marriage is only between a man and a woman. What do you have to say about that?”
Raskin replied: “Senator, when you took your oath of office, you placed your hand on the Bible and swore to uphold the Constitution. You did not place your hand on the Constitution and swear to uphold the Bible.”
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