Quote of the Day: George Carlin on simplifying homeland security

"If I had been in charge of reorganizing the government's security agencies into a homeland defense organization, I would have divided the responsibilities into two agencies: the Bureau of What the Fuck Was That?! and the Department of What the Fuck Are We Gonna Do Now?"
—George Carlin, in his book When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?, Hyperion, 2004, pg. 159

An open memo on the Chris Benoit family tragedy to his boss

To: Mr. Vincent K. McMahon
Chairman, Board of Directors
World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc.
1241 East Main Street
Stamford, Connecticut 06902

Re: Chris Benoit
Dear Mr. McMahon:

( What you should do now. )

Quote of the Day on the hypocrisy of Americans who demand an English-only society

Cunningly cribbed from debgeisler:

"The problem with defending the 'purity' of the English language is that the English language is [about] as pure as a crib-house whore. It not only borrows words from other languages; it has on occasion chased other languages down dark alley-ways, clubbed them unconscious and rifled their pockets for new vocabulary."—James Nicoll

Honestly, these nativist twits who are so overwhelmed by alien-in-my-own-country feelings just because government and business make a little extra effort to accommodate those for whom English is not a first language never cease to amaze—or annoy—me. (Especially when they seem not to have bothered much about learning to use and/or spell English correctly themselves; see the sign graphic in Deb's journal.)