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Reference of the Day

"But it's hard to stay mad, when there's so much beauty in the world. Sometimes I feel like I'm seeing it all at once, and it's too much, my heart fills up like a balloon that's about to burst. And then I remember to relax, and stop trying to hold on to it, and then it flows through me like rain. And I can't feel anything but gratitude for every single moment of my stupid little life."

--Lester Burnham, American Beauty

"My cup runneth over."

Reference of the Day

"This show is over, say goodbye."

--Madonna

The basket-weavers who do not weave baskets

I love Sens. Kennedy and Byrd. Both of them have a distinguished record of service in the Senate.

But if you can't show up to vote, shouldn't you *resign* so they can get someone in there who can cast a vote? There has to be a limit to the number of votes missed before you lose your office. That's just a wasted vote.

I sympathize with you and your family, but really: what good is an imaginary filibuster-proof 60 vote majority when only 58 of you are there? Fight for health care with your pen. You are not a Senator if you don't vote. End of story.

Happy 4th of July

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights."

(Unless you are a homosexual.)

--July 4th, 1776

Sympathizing with the Sanfords

If you take out the hypocrisy of the whole thing (in 2002, Sanford campaigned on a family vales/Christian values platform heavily, and called for Clinton's resignation amid the Lewinsky Scandal), the Sanford controversy is actually a very sad story.

Looking over the double-standard, I deeply sympathize with this man and what he must be going through. I have never seen a politician so incredibly open with the fact that his adultery was in fact true love. He seems so conflicted inside, so troubled, and I feel for him almost to the point of actual empathy.

And I couldn't be more impressed by his wife's reaction to this whole ordeal. She has acted with an individualistic fortitude one could almost describe as feminist. The fact that she was not at her husband's press conference as a ploy to make him look better was admirable--too often, the wives of philandering politicians are put on display, in front of cameras as the pain of their spouse's infidelity is only reinforced in the public eye.

I do not hold Gov. Sanford's actions against him. I only wish he had held the same standards for people on the other side of the aisle as he did for himself. But as I often do with female public figures, I find inspiration in Jenny Sanford's actions after her marriage's separation and her husband's affair became known. I even would go so far as to say that Jenny Sanford has responded flawlessly, in a way that any wife/spouse of a straying public figure should model themselves after.

Reference of the Day: Foresight

"I know everyone here is on a 24-hour news cycle. I'm not."

--President Obama, at a press conference on the uprisings in Iran

But one could apply this quote to most any issue in this administration.