Rich People Sneering at Working People:

You gotta love it when a multimillionaire banker like Phil Gramm, former Republican senator and top McCain advisor, sneers that regular Americans are "a nation of whiners."

NOTE: McCain dumped Gramm.

The Dude explaining "success": "Had we to do it over again, we would look at the consequences of catastrophic success, being so successful so fast that an enemy that should have surrendered or been done in escaped and lived to fight another day." — George W. Bush quoted in Time magazine, 2004. (Or, golly gee, Mr. Wizard, these bad guys just don't play fair!)

Life in China:

The Washington Post reports on how to keep the population from complaining, or at least how the Chinese plan to keep people from protesting at the Olympics. First, haul out the students and office workers in a city, and second, drag out three people convicted of plotting terrorist activities, and third, blow the brains out of the convicts in front of the students and office workers. Makes you wonder what the Chinese plan to treat the tourists to at the games once they get under way.