Thursday, May 20, 2010

Link-heavy Mid-week Post

  1. Brett, is the correct spelling "Deja Vu" or "De Ja Vue"? or what's the difference?
  2. Was the 1964 civil rights act good or bad? Conservatives are pro (although Buckley was against). Libertarians are against.
  3. Q: Are you a doorman? A: Yeah, I'm a door man . . . to the sky!
  4. Why is your face like that?
  5. Is there gay juice in the champagne?
  6. Three blogs I've been reading: Aretae, Austro-Athenian Empire, and Offsetting Behaviours. The Aretae guy considers himself an off-the-charts genius. The second guy seems like the type that might annoy me with his lefty-libertarian smugness. Also I don't know what Rodrick is saying half the time.
  7. Good Question for Elena Kagan:
  8. On the one hand, Harvard accepts money from Saudis. Saudi Arabia, by the way, executes homosexuals, Saudi Arabia represses women, Saudi Arabia does not allow Christians or Jews to practice their religion, but Saudi money is fine. The American military didn’t have a policy. The Congress of the United States and the Clinton administration she served in had a policy. And for her to single out the military was an extraordinarily myopic position. And if you read what they said at the time, it was consistently focused on the military, and I just think that at a time when we have two wars, that’s a very inappropriate behavior.

3 comments:

Brett said...

Are you missing some links or am I supposed to be more familiar with these quotes?

In french it could be "deja vu" or "deja vue" but never "de ja." Deja means already, vu is the past participle of the verb voir (to see). The "e" is added to the end when vu is modifying a feminine subject. I'm not sure the proper englification.

Danny said...

9. totally confused by this post.

Leigh Harris said...

The quotes are from last nights episode of 30 Rock. It was hysterical.