From Hugh Grant:
I say to one of my sons, “It’s disgusting to watch you eat those Cocoa Puffs. I mean, for God’s sake. You’ve just had three bowls, have you any idea what you’re doing to yourself?”
And then he says, “Do you want some?”
I go, “Yeah, absolutely.”
Priceless.
From the late- and very-much-missed Rik Mayall (as Tory MP Alan B’stard):
“NHS waiting lists can be eradicated overnight by shutting down the health service, thereby killing poor people and wiping out poverty.”
Cruel? Yes. True? Also yes.
I quote Insty a lot, I know, but at the end of it all, Glenn Reynolds is a very smart and wise man. Frankly (and I know he’s not interested, more’s the pity), our country needs him, and more like him, to be in a position of power rather than being a respected law professor at some university*.
Here’s what caught my eye recently:
“There was a time when I doubted the morality of Hiroshima, Tokyo, and Dresden. Watching the world today, I’m glad that our forebears had the courage and moral clarity that too many parts of our contemporary society lack.”
Asking for “moral clarity” in our current amoral power elite is far too big an expectation.
*I know, I know — to Glenn, UTenn isn’t just “some university”, but in relation to his stature, intellect and character, I’m afraid that to the rest of us, and to me in particular, it is.
From Roger Kimball:
“Remember the ‘pipe bombs’ that were supposedly planted by ‘insurrectionists’ [on Jan 6 2020]? It turns out they were almost certainly dummy explosives planted by government agents.”
Yeah… funny how that investigation suddenly evaporated, and news reports thereof disappeared down Winston Smith’s memory hole tube.
By “funny” I mean like “watching your dog getting run over by a truck” funny.
Feel the burn…
From The Divine Sarah:
“It’s not my fault that the people running all our intellectual institutions, including research, are morons studying to be idiots.”
Truer words were never spoken.
From Hugh Grant’s mother:
“All Englishmen are permanently two gin and tonics under par. They need two gin and tonics to become human.”
So… I’m English, then? I did not know that about myself.
