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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.”

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“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. ”

–Arthur Laffer

(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!”

On Jim Petro’s selection of Phil Heimlich as his runningmate for the Ohio Gubernatorial race:

“This Heimlich maneuver will not stop Jim Petro’s last-place candidacy from choking.”–Mark Weaver, spokesman for Betty Montgomery, one of Petro’s challengers in the GOP Primary

Some food for thought:

For Congress and the president to then step in and try to override that by shifting the venue to a federal court was a legal travesty, a flagrant violation of federalism and the separation of powers. The federal judge who refused to reverse the Florida court was certainly true to the law. But the law, while scrupulous, has been merciless, and its conclusion very troubling morally. We ended up having to choose between a legal travesty on the one hand and human tragedy on the other–Charles Krauthammer

(h/t: RCP)

A quote from one of the speakers at the seminar today:

“The western left has effectively been neutered”–A (liberal) speaker describing the Left’s ignorance of the Islamist regimes in the Middle East.

(h/t Gay Patriot)

“I’m very upset. We’re all very upset,” he said. “I’ve been selling [Fat] Bitches for 14 years.”–Owner of the Grease Truck

From a Fox News story on the Grease Truck at Rutgers.

But the question remains: What’s a grease truck?