“What if someone started one of these sites in the six months
that we’re not in session? We were able to proactively legislate
for society.”
—Delaware state Rep. Melanie George Marshall (D-Bear/Newark), on
her vote to ban the nonexistent practice of “Internet hunting,” in
which sportsmen theoretically use webcams to kill animals remotely,
quoted in The Wall Street Journal, August 10
“We can’t make John black; we can’t make him a woman. Those
things get you a lot of press, worth a certain amount of fund
raising dollars.”
—Elizabeth Edwards, on challenges to her husband’s presidential
campaign, quoted in CIO Insight, August 6
“A she dog, or doggess; the most offensive appellation that can
be given to an English woman, even more provoking than that of
whore.”
—the definition of bitch in a New York City Council
measure banning the use of that word, August 6
“Conventional work is out of the question for me—both in terms
of my conscience and on an intellectual level—as it seems
objectionable with regard to both my personal well-being and the
well-being of society as a whole. Emotionally too it creates
unbearable pain and dejection.”
—from a letter by a Swedish couple petitioning for continued
welfare payments after 10 years on the dole, quoted in The
Local, August 3
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