“All I do is feebly hack away at trying — emphasis on trying — to capture some version of ‘reality’ that will speak for itself, including the echolalia of the very media influence that filters it by the act of recording it.”
“Boehner and McCain discussed the bailout plan, but Republican leadership aides described the conversation as somewhat surreal.”
“It was an implosion that spilled out from behind closed doors into public view in a way rarely seen in Washington.”
“There’s been nothing about the Washington reaction to this that has inspired confidence. And now that the fight has turned explicitly political — with no regard whatsoever for the underlying economics — I can only imagine it getting less substantive from here.”
“And now we know how McCain intends to deal with the nation’s economic crisis — they’ve invented time travel.”
“If your time-travelling hunting expeditions have netted you a fortune in apatosaurus ambergris, feel free to pick up one of these ornamental ‘Unnatural Selector Ray-Blunderbuses’ …”
“This is where we create ambassadors for a culture that does not exist yet. People ready for a world that requires more local knowledge and livelihood.”