The Grand Old Post

8 November, 2006

I’ve been waiting for this moment since I was 12 years old in 1994 and watched the results with my parents and saw Democrat after Democrat go down and wondered “Why are they losing?” This is the first time in my political life that my side has won.

“As when death smites the swollen brooding thing that inhabits their crawling hill and holds them all in sway, ants will wander witless and purposeless and then feebly die, so the creatures of Sauron, orc or troll or beast spell-enslaved, ran hither and thither mindless; and some slew themselves, or cast themselves in pits, or fled wailing back to hide in holes and dark lightless places far from hope.”

–JRR Tolkien, The Return of the King

PS: Via Catherine Andrews

Why are the french so eager to eat horses?
–Tucker Carlson

The losers will cry, because that is what happens when you are personally rejected by so many people.
–Chris Matthews