“It is extraordinary to me,” said he, “that you people cannot take care of yourselves and your children. One or the other of you is for ever in the way. How do I know what injury you have done my horses. See! Give him that.”

He threw out a gold coin for the valet to pick [...]

I ran across this delightful adult toy this morning as I was working at my day job – which is porn:

He’s called Beatin’ Barack and if you go to the Pipedreams site, you can see him in “action”. If you click the pic above, you can see him in his NSFW plastic glory.

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…issue from so empty a heart.
But the saying is true:
“The empty vessel makes the greatest sound.”
William Shakespeare from his play Henry V

John Heilemann and Mark Halperin starring in the painting Three Gossips by Louis Grosclaude (Late 1800s)

Cheney, that is:

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lest he thereby become a monster.
And if you gaze for long into an abyss,
the abyss gazes also into you.
Nietzsche

Rush Limbaugh in The Remorse of the Emperor Nero after the Murder of his Mother by John William Waterhouse (1878)

Let me start by saying that I think Sarah Palin is a pretty lady. I don’t care for her politics and while I’ve never met the woman, her personality strikes me as mean-spirited, dishonest and vindictive. Regardless of that, there’s no getting around the fact that she is blessed with good skin, doe eyes and [...]