Quote of the Week

Decline is a choice.
--Jonah Goldberg, Suicide of the West: How the Rebirth of Tribalism, Populism, Nationalism, and Identity Politics Is Destroying American Democracy

Movie Quote of the Week

"What makes a man a man?" a friend of mine once wondered. Is it his origins? The way he comes to life? I don't think so. It's the choices he makes. Not how he starts things, but how he decides to end them.
--Rupert Evans, Hellboy (2004)

Prediction of the Week

If the Democrats don't get their act together soon, 2020 is going to end up being a replay of 2004.

Science Fiction Quote of the Week

His face was cold. His mouth trembled, asking: "Who -- who won the presidential election yesterday?"

The man behind the desk laughed. "You joking? You know very well. Deutscher, of course! Who else? Not that fool weakling Keith. We got an iron man now, a man with guts!" The official stopped. "What's wrong?"
--Ray Bradbury, “A Sound of Thunder”

TV Quote of the Week

I think all I have... all any of us have, are the results of all the choices that we've made. And at the end of the day, we just hope... that we made the right one.
--David Duchovny, The X-Files, "Nothing Lasts Forever"

Movie Quote of the Week

It is not our abilities that tell us what we truly are ... it is our choices.
--Richard Harris, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)

Movie Quote of the Week

You are who you choose to be.
--Eli Marienthal, The Iron Giant (1999)