"We pass over the silly remarks of the President."

"For the credit of the nation we are willing that the veil of oblivion shall be dropped over them, and that they shall be no more repeated or thought of."

I added a couple of clues...

... to that Althouse blog test from a couple days ago.

"Any time I hear the wind blow..."

"... it will whisper the name Edna."

"I had no plan. I did have a lot of tolerance for confusion and contingency..."

"... a deep belief in dialogue and open debate, a love of experimentation and spontaneity, a fascination with particularity, an instinct for action, a willingness to dance the dialectic with some abandon, and an abiding faith in ordinary people as agents, actors, and history makers."

Think about that and note your reaction before clicking through. Then click, read, and come back here and, if you please, comment.

"Utterly unqualified partisan politicians will look at what utterly unqualified citizens have said..."

Begins a criticism of [guess what] that could work pretty much across the board as a criticism of representative democracy.

"That's an article of faith about truth, not truth."

"It's a belief that supervenes truth."

She's the new Levi Johnston.

How's he doing now?

ADDED: "Police later said they did not find a gun on Zimmerman's person."

Who said...?

A series of quotes:

I never enjoyed working in a film.

In Europe, it doesn't matter if you're a man or a woman - we make love with anyone we find attractive.

A country without bordellos is like a house without bathrooms.

The weak are more likely to make the strong weak than the strong are likely to make the weak strong.

If there is a supreme being, he's crazy.

Answer: here.

Who was Misty Malarky Ying Yang?

Just a test to see how well you know your...

... White House pets.

"Try eating a couple of raisins."

A tip from a list of tips. Guess what the goal to be achieved is before you click through.

ADDED: David in the comments guesses longevity, which is wrong. I don't think commenter David is David Sedaris, but in the new David Sedaris book, Sedaris describes his father's formula for longevity:

The secret, he tells me, is to eat seven gin-soaked raisins a day.

“Blond or dark?” I asked.

“Doesn’t matter.”

“Could I possibly cut out the gin part? Marinate them in, I don’t know, coffee or something.”

“Do you want to live or don’t you?” he asked.

When I told my father about Dan’s prophecy [that the first person who’ll reach the age of two hundred has already been born], he said, “Aw, baloney. A twenty-year-old kid in Holland, what does he know?”

“He learned it in school.”

“No, he didn’t,” my father said. “The guy was just pulling your leg.” He had a similar opinion of the plastic bags hanging in Francine’s doorway [for keeping the flies away]. “It’s just a load of BS.”

“As opposed to seven gin-soaked raisins keeping you alive until you’re eighty-nine?”

“Hey,” he said, “those raisins work!”

"I know! I'm so shocked, and I feel a great sense of personal loss."

5 years ago.

(I should have seen this yesterday.)

"You’re about to find out who I am."

What famous person with a seemingly clean reputation was pulled over for drunk driving and sassed a cop like that?

Oh, does it really matter? Isn't it what they'd all say if they were too dumb/drunk to hold their tongue? (This one isn't dumb, by the way. She went to Stanford.)

"Q. What’s the biggest public misconception about you?"

"A. It takes a lot of time to answer a question like that. At the moment, I’m not that interested in myself."

Does it really matter which famous person whom we think of as being full of himself/herself gave that answer? Wouldn't they all give that answer if they were clever enough to think of it?

ADDED: Confession.

"I’ve got a woman’s ability..."

"... to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it."

Taking the high road.

"It is ridiculous and not really funny at all. I’d appreciate you taking the high road and not resorting to something childish like this that’s been blogged about 1,000 times."

ADDED: The linked article prompted me to research the history of the term "to go commando." The Oxford English Dictionary traces it to 1974:

slang (orig. U.S.). to go commando  : to wear no underpants (beneath one's clothing).

The origin of this use is obscure; the allusion appears to be to commandos' reputation for action, toughness, or resourcefulness rather than to any specific practice.

1974   Current U.N.C. Slang (Univ. N. Carolina, Chapel Hill) (typescript) Spring,   Go commando, to be without underwear.
1985   Chicago Tribune (Nexis) 22 Jan. c,   Colored briefs are ‘sleazy’ and going without underwear (‘going commando’, as they say on campus) is simply gross.
2001   Guardian 7 June ii. 8/2   Thank goodness he wasn't wearing a pair of sagging Y-fronts or, much worse, a thong. Thank goodness he wasn't going commando.
2004   J. Evanovich Ten Big Ones 186   Unless Ranger kept his underwear in his safe, it appeared that he went commando.

"You never hear anyone say they used to support it, but have seen the light..."

"... and now realize it's the wrong thing to do."

"Entertain the possibility that you are the shallow one..."

"... and that you are a sexist pig."

"Yesterday my tiny, much-loved man Alan passed away in a tragic accident."

"Thank you to all that were there to help, all the kind wishes."

Please contribute to a 10-year old girl's science experiment.

Watch a 6-second video and answer 3 easy questions.

Person who had her 15 minutes of fame...

... wants 15 more minutes.