January 21, 2005
WORD OF THE DAY: FOOTBALL
Condoleezza Rice: "I find football so interesting strategically. It's the closest thing to war. What you are doing is taking & yielding territory & have certain strategies & tactics."
Camille Paglia: "I have learned an enormous amount from watching football & have applied those lessons in my war against the feminist & academic establishment. I block & tackle with pleasure & love in particular to run 'misdirection' plays on feminist leaders--who must be baseball fans, since they still haven't caught on."
Football Fans for Truth: "John Kerry throws a football like a girl."
Don DeLillo: "Football is brutal only from a distance. In the middle of it there's a calm, a tranquility. There's a sense of order even at the end of a running play with bodies strewn everywhere."
Jack Kemp: "Too often, football is poetically described in terms of war, pitched battles, heroic feats & as a matter of life and death. How trite those words seem when juxtaposed against the sacrifice of real heroes like Pat Tillman."
Phyllis Diller: "The reason women don't play football is because 11 of them would never wear the same outfit in public."
Dartmouth Dean of Admissions Karl Furstenberg: "Football, & the culture that surrounds it, is antithetical to the academic mission of colleges such as ours."
Roger Simon: "All Americans needed was a leader who could give them a sense of confidence, just as he had done when he played a dying football player & asked his team to 'win one for the Gipper.' As Reagan told David Brinkley, 'There have been times in this office when I've wondered how you could do the job if you hadn't been an actor.'
Martin Schwarz: "President George W Bush's administration is using the issue of weapons of mass destruction as a political football, fabricating non-existent threats while turning a blind eye to real ones."
Rita Lasar, founder of September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows: "The idea that President Bush would rally support around his campaign by using our loved ones is hard for me to believe. Keep your hands off ground zero. Do not make a political football out of this."
Hugh Rodham on sister Hillary Clinton's ruthless persona: "That's just her business face. You know, like your game face when you play football."
George Will: "Football combines two of the worst things in American life. It is violence punctuated by committee meetings."
Theodore Roosevelt: "I am delighted to have you play football. I believe in rough, manly sports."
John F. Kennedy: "Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole."
University of Wisconsin professor Margaret Carlisle Duncan: "An institution that promotes male dominance."
OJ Simpson: "When I finished playing ball, the one thing I wanted was never to be introduced as an ex-football player. And I think I succeeded."
Robert Scheer: "Isn't there something perverse about a nation completely engrossed in football while the drums of war beat persistently in the background?"
Hunter S. Thompson: "We could use a little fun, right now, with all these rumors of war & anthrax going around. All war & no football makes Johnny a dull boy."
More Hunter S. Thompson: "Betting on George Bush to win this coming election would be like betting the Denver Broncos to win the Super Bowl."
See also Women's Professional Football League
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September 23, 2004
WORD OF THE DAY: VILE
"I'm not easy to offend, but this speech was gob-smackingly vile." Andrew Sullivan on Zell Miller* [Ed. note: According to Oxford English Dictionary of Expatriate Slang, gob-smackingly is common Brit slang denoting icky; post-asparagus fellatio; British cuisine; Morrissey; Are You Being Served?]
"The vile genetic inheritance of Bill and Hillary Clinton may live on to plague us in the future." John Derbyshire on Chelsea Clinton
"John Derbyshire is a vile, loathsome toad." Brad Delong
"Tis better to be vile than vile esteemed." Shakespeare's Sonnet #121
"Our liberal ideas are branded as disgusting & vile. When Bush is reelected, Americans won't have to worry about journalists that don't follow party line or the ministry of propaganda - we'll all be in prison or dead." Michael Berglin, one of the entertaining lunatics who writes for Russian tabloid Pravda
LARD WAS VILE NUN. [Anagram for Andrew Sullivan]
"Even though Gibson didn't nail anybody's hand to anything this time, Paparazzi is just vile." Roger Moore on Mel Gibson-produced Paparazzi
"Rude, vile pigs. That's what all of you are!" Elton John on Taiwan press. [Photographer: "Why don't you get out of Taiwan?" John: "We'd love to get out of Taiwan if it's full of people like you. Pig! Pig!"]
"A fresh vile of maggots, which costs about $70, can be shipped overnight." Article on new maggot therapy. [Probably typo, unless this is actual word for a collection of maggots]
"Al Franken is a vile human being." Bill O'Reilly, to Ann Coulter
"Behold, I am vile." Job 40:4
"It is the most vile anti-family anti-gay acceptance speech in the history of presidential politics." National Stonewall Democrats spokesperson John Marble on Bush
"This description of what some believe is a vile sex act is the kind of statement Kobe’s been fighting to keep under wraps. That interrogation tape is so graphic we can't provide specifics, but it’s something Bryant likes doing during sex." Celebrity Justice Kobe coverage [Hint: it involves a woman's face]
"Vile Ann Coulter smears a war hero." Joe Conason, defending Max Cleland
"The Swift Boat Veterans ad is beyond vile." William Saletan in Slate
"Vile slander." Eric Alterman, on being included in Andrew Sullivan's Fifth Column roundup
"Sheep farmer Mr Andrew Vile said lambs were frolicking in his paddocks and some were twins or triplets." State of the paddocks from Australia
"Just a few weeks ago another councillor was accused of white slavery & now a member of the same team has seen her right to privacy violated by this vile montage." Spanish mayor Pedro Acebo on sensational nude pic scandal involving councilwoman Gloria Constantino, anchorwoman Maria del Mar de las Heras, & unidentified man, possibly Acebo's brother
Villians International League of Evil (V.I.L.E.), founded by klepto superdetective Carmen San Diego
"I think the actions of the president are the most vile & hateful words ever spoken by a sitting president." Rosie O'Donnell, about You-Know-Who
*To see if Andrew is easily offended, see Ace of â™
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