Funny Quote of the Day

This is Megan McArdle on Cindy McCain's gaffe. She passed recipes from the Food Network off as her own:

The honorable thing to do is attribute, of course, but the McCain team still seems to be intent on pretending that Cindy McCain derives all of her recipes from First Principles.

I visualize a Cindy McCain in a lab coat furiously writing down the results of experiments and mixing bisque in a Ehrlenmeyer flask.

When it comes to recipes we are all hacks. Unless you have genetically engineered a new foodstuff, you are doing something that someone has done before.

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Part of me really wants to be silly and snarky about this, but I think the American media have lost all perception of what might be important in electing a president.

Instead of talking about how the presumptive Republican candidate running on foreign policy experience links Iran to Al Qaeda (which would be like claiming the Pope is backing British Protestants in Northern Ireland), we're talking about the Democratic candidate being "elitist" for bowling badly, ordering orange juice at a diner, and claiming that working class people might be "bitter."

At this point, I think American democracy would be better served by making the next winner of "America's Next Top Model" the President of the USA. It would be shorter, less insulting to our intelligence.

For some reason I now like Cindy McCain.

I contend that, in my own kitchen, I have indeed created unique and new foodstuffs. They cannot usually be recommended, if ever.