#ld

In any event, the proper question isn't what a journalist thinks is relevant but what his or her audience thinks is relevant. Denying people information they would find useful because you think they shouldn't find it useful is censorship, not journalism. ↗

— Michael Kinsley

#audience #because #censorship #denying #event

In those days, the late 1970s, one of the leading politicians was a soon-to-be uncle by marriage of Arnold Schwarzenegger, named Ted Kennedy. ↗

— Michael Kinsley

#arnold schwarzenegger #days #kennedy #late #leading

It wouldn't be fair to say that conservatives cherish property the way liberals cherish equality. But it would be fair to say that the takings clause is the conservatives' recipe for judicial activism just as they say liberals have misused the equal protection clause. ↗

— Michael Kinsley

#cherish #clause #conservatives #equal #equal protection

The logic is often far-fetched - how does medical marijuana affect interstate commerce? - and some conservatives would like judges to start throwing out federal laws wholesale on commerce clause grounds. The court once again said no thanks. ↗

— Michael Kinsley

#again #clause #commerce #conservatives #court

God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers. ↗

— Rudyard Kipling

#could #everywhere #god #made #mothers

If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. The world will be yours and everything in it, what's more, you'll be a man, my son. ↗

— Rudyard Kipling

#be a man #blaming #everything #keep #losing

When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier. ↗

— Rudyard Kipling

#blow #brains #come #cut #go

And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, till the Devil whispered behind the leaves "It's pretty, but is it Art?" ↗

— Rudyard Kipling

#behind #devil #first #had #heart

I'm very happy and lonely single old man - and bitter. ↗

— Chris Kirkpatrick

#happy #i #lonely #man #old

Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told anyone how I was being treated. Children tell little more than animals, for what comes to them they accept as eternally established. ↗

— Rudyard Kipling

#afterwards #anyone #ask #aunt #being