While the girls are discussing Jersey Shore.
Girl 1: “What’s that quote…something like ‘it takes three things to make a guido…gym, tanning, laundy”
Me (passing by): “crap! I’m 2/3rds of the way there–I hit the gym and do my own laundry!”
Laughter ensues.
/No, I don’t tan on purpose. Only what sunlight I get in the summer time.
Public trust is something scientists must work hard to maintain. When it comes to science and public policy, the average citizen usually has to trust scientists—whose word he or she has to take on faith almost as much as a religious believer takes the word of a priest. Once that trust is undermined, as it has been in recent years, science becomes a casualty of politics.”
–Cathy Young, When Science Becomes a Casualty of Politics
This one brought a smile to my face:
Trainer to (new) client: “We’re going to work not to just get you big…but 70s big!”
[perplexed look on client's face]
Congressman Rangel:
“If you become an officer and you have a pistol and you are of color, in or out of uniform, your chances of getting shot down by a police officer are a lot heavier than if you were not of color,”
Not to mention that as the story has been reported now, when approached by police, the (now) deceased officer didn’t put down his weapon, and instead turned to face the (shooting) officer with his gun drawn….
From the same article:
But NYPD procedure for officer confrontation places the responsibility on the out-of-uniform officers. They are instructed to drop their weapon, stay still and to obey all directions from the uniformed officers to diffuse the tense situation.
And everyone was saying the same thing: the governor’s 17-year-old daughter is pregnant, the father is her boyfriend, and it’s really nobody’s business beyond that.–Nathan Thornburgh in Time Magazine (online)
“On a side note, both at the EXPO and the after-party, people kept walking by yelling “juicer!” and “steroid user!” at [Jose] Canseco. Uh, you’re at the Arnold. Calling someone a juicer here is like walking into a porn convention and calling the women sluts. It’s, you know, kinda the whole idea.”–Chris Shugart
Barack will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual, uninvolved, uninformed.
Ronald Reagan:
The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, “I’m from the government and I’m here to help.”
Once again, the Gipper nailed it! I’d rather be uninvolved and uninformed if it’s going to be the government trying to get involved in my life.
Who among us hasn’t found relief from a bad breakup, the lost job, or even the loss of someone close, by lifting weights? Who among us hasn’t mentally transmitted his troubles into a heavy weight and just torn that mother up in a sweaty effort to exercise and exorcise that demon? Who among us hasn’t felt the blood surging through our muscles, followed by an intense cramping pain that’s both excruciating and cathartic at the same time?
You can have your soothing wind chimes, I’ll take the beautiful sound of clanging dumbbells any day–TC
“When we’re in the gym, we’re in this indescribable euphoria zone. It’s a feeling of being on, of being completely alive and aware. If you haven’t been there, then it’s like trying to describe color to a person who’s been blind since birth. Within this haze of pleasure and pain, there’s knowledge and power, self-discipline and self-reliance. If you do it long enough, Bob, there’s even enlightenment. Sometimes, the answers to questions you didn’t even know you had are sitting there on those rubber mats, wrapped up in a neat package of iron plates and bars.–Chris Shugart
Some of my best ideas come to me in the gym…not sure why, but they do.
“You know a city is rather safe when it’s biggest crime problems are knock off handbags and people stealing their grandfather’s viagra or cialis”–My roomate
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“One is 95 percent certainty, and the other is…50 percent and a feather”
According to attorney Kevin Conway (quoted in the Washington Post), that is the difference between the scientific and legal burden of proof
(Via Action Potential)
With the differences in the terms of “burden of proof”, , it is worth pondering if/how science should be decided in a Court of Law.
Stupid, foot in mouth statement of the day award goes to Sen. Conrad Burns (R-MT).
This naturally begs the question: do they even have cabs out in Montana?
“Tending to the sick is not charitable,” said attorney Tim Armstrong,
From a Plain Dealer article over the jquestion of hospitals and taxation
“I’ve got dreadlocks, so of course I smoke weed…which I noted on the form”–patient in the office today
(Italian heritage) Friend: “All the discussions here in the lab usually boil down to which empire was better, the Greeks or the Romans”
Me: Greeks, Romans–they both persecuted and fucked over my people (the Jews)–yet we’re still around…now where are those bagels!
Seen on a shirt at the lab this morning:
“The Second Ammendment…..America’s original homeland security”
“It has definitely dawned on her that this is really in jail — it is certainly no summer camp,” NY Times Executive Editor Bill Keller to E&P on Judith Miller’s incarceration
Of course it isn’t summer camp…it’s prison for goodness sakes!
“Businesses don’t locate out of social consciousness,” Laffer said. “They go wherever they can get the best bottom line.”
And
“Voters can also help by carefully electing officials, he said, and that doesn’t mean a blanket vote for Republicans or Democrats.
“People have got to vote for the policies, not the party,” he said. ”
(More on the article where these quotes came from later)
What do you think about this?
“there is no First Amendment right to masturbate.”–Chris Link, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio quoted in the Cleveland Plain Dealer
(via Brewed Fresh Daily)
“What kind of shmuck only leaves one [rubber] glove in the box!”
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