Sentences that charmed me

A roundup of writing that is helping me to shake off a nasty case of The Dreads....


Personally, I think this is a really good time not to keep up. The more you try, the less sense it makes, although getting us used to having it all make no sense at all may be an extremely sneaky Karl Rove ploy to justify the war in Iraq. Hard to say.—Molly Ivins
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Bush just gave Rumsfeld a rousing vote of confidence. I give him a week tops now. When Fredo gives support to someone, the rest of the Coreleon family knows to whack him.—TPM Café
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For a bunch of military hotshots, they [retired generals Batiste, Eaton, Newbold, Riggs, Swannack, Zinni] sure can't shoot straight. They're wasting all their bullets on the decoy. They've gunned down the puppet instead of the puppeteers.—Greg Palast
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The grip of fear can't be sustained indefinitely in an open society addicted to entertainment and diversion, and Bush's grip has cracked. He seems a shrugging, camera-mugging irrelevance when you see him on the stump now.—James Wolcott
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As I plucked at my eyebrows, gelled my hair into a gravity-defying do, and sprayed Axe directly onto my balls, I realized, "Hmm, I am kind of a guido."

Must be the New Jersey air.—Vivid Blurry
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