Quotable/Notables: Clint Eastwood Wants to Meet Michael Moore

It's Notable, Quotable, Ponderable and Worth the Thought

A little “Modern” thought interspersed with old saws of wisdom.

More on the Status of This Country’s Education

YER PUBLIK SKOOLS INAXION

“The Connecticut Post reports that the Milford Board of Education ‘signed off Tuesday on a much-heralded plan to make reading the next graduation requirement for the city's high school students, designating the Class of 2009 the first to be subject to the new rules.’ That means if you're in high school now, you won't need to learn to read in order to graduate. Though if you don't know how to read, we don't know why we're bothering to tell you this.”

- James Taranto’s Best of the Web, 1/14/05

I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
~Groucho Marx

The Boston Globe Reports Something Positive About Iraq?
…what’s the catch?

PROGRESS, NO MATTER HOW YOU SLICE IT

“Iraqis go to the polls on Jan. 30 to choose the first truly democratic government in their nation's history. If all goes well, the election will result in a new National Assembly of 275 members, drawn from different political parties roughly in proportion to the share of the vote each party receives. Neither the election nor the new parliament will be without flaws, some of them serious. Nevertheless, the distance Iraq has come in less than two years is remarkable. In January 2003, all political power in the country was concentrated in the hands of a single sadistic dictator. He represented, and answered to, no one but himself. Today, 7,200 candidates are campaigning for the privilege of holding office in a government of, by, and for the Iraqi people. If that isn't progress, nothing is.”

Boston Globe columnist Jeff Jacoby

My luck is so bad that if I bought a cemetery, people would stop dying.
Ed Furgol

Clint Eastward Wants Moore to Make His Day

“Michael Moore and I actually have a lot in common. We both appreciate living in a country where there’s free expression,’ (Clint) Eastwood told the star-studded crowd attending the National Board of Review awards dinner at Tavern on the Green… Then the Republican-leaning actor-director advised the filmmaker: ‘But Michael, if you ever show up at my front door with a camera, I’ll kill you.’ The audience erupted in laughter, and Eastwood grinned. ‘I mean it,’ he added.”

- Tampa Tribune, 1/14/05

Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.
~Herbert Henry Asquith