Quotes From Around Yon Blogosphere

Talk radio is running America. We have to deal with that problem.

-- TRENT LOTT

I am surprised that the Politerati, or DC’s chattering class, have not seen the parallels between Hillary Clinton and Richard Nixon. They both have brilliant strategic minds, suffer from extreme paranoia about the enemy of their agenda, and both are extremely secretive. Nixon had very high negatives, and re-launched his “brand” image in the 1968 campaign, just as Hillary is doing in 2007. In short, Hillary is Nixon in a dress, or more appropriately Nixon in a pant suit. We saw what happened the first time we entrusted the White House to a person with behavioral traits like this. Do we want to go through it again?

-- AN ANONYMOOSE

Congressmen who are liberal are more likely to have slutty daughters. And therefore, they are more likely to support abortion for selfish, personal reasons.

-- DEBBIE SCHLUSSEL

Pentagon officials confirmed . . . that military leaders had considered, and then rejected, building a "gay bomb."

The Berkeley watchdog group, The Sunshine Project, tracks military spending and through their work, uncovered a strange U.S. military proposal to create a hormone bomb that could allegedly turn enemy soldiers into homosexuals and thereby make them more interested in pursuing sex with each other than in fighting.

--PAIGE LEIGH

Pakistan demanded that Britain withdraw a knighthood awarded to author Salman Rushdie, as a government minister said the honour gave a justification for suicide attacks by Muslims.

-- AGENCE FRANCE PRESS

The Creation Museum actually stands the natural history museum on its head. Natural history museums developed out of the Enlightenment: encyclopedic collections of natural objects were made subject to ever more searching forms of inquiry and organization. The natural history museum gave order to the natural world, taming its seeming chaos with the principles of human reason. And Darwin’s theory — which gave life a compelling order in time as well as space — became central to its purpose. Put on display was the prehistory of civilization, seeming to allude not just to the evolution of species but also cultures (which is why “primitive” cultures were long part of its domain). The natural history museum is a hall of human origins.

The Creation Museum has a similar interest in dramatizing origins, but sees natural history as divine history. And now that many museums have also become temples to various American ethnic and sociological groups, why not a museum for the millions who believe that the Earth is less than 6,000 years old and was created in six days?

-- EDWARD ROTHSTEIN

The 15-year-old son of two doctors performed a filmed Caesarean section birth under his parents’ watch in southern India in an apparent bid to gain a spot in the Guinness Book of World Records as the youngest surgeon.

<>-- THE ASSOCIATED PRESS