Why do politicians make the worst decisions?

South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford: Mistress is ’soul mate,’ but I want to fall back in love with wife (New York Daily News)

I could digress and say that you have the ability to give magnificent gentle kisses, or that I love your tan lines or that I love the curve of your hips, the erotic beauty of you holding yourself (or two magnificent parts of yourself) in the faded glow of the night’s light - but hey, that would be going into sexual details…
Quotation from Governor Mark Sanford, written in an email to his “soulmate” Maria Belen Chapur

He was writing something and wanted some space to get away from the kids.
Quotation from Jenny Sanford, on her husband’s mysterious “disappearance”

Thank you everyone for your comments and wonderful words of encouragement. They mean a lot to me. The staples came out yesterday. I’m home now. Just don’t make me laugh.

Fewer than 4% of people between the ages of 30 and 40 get gallstone polyps. Women are 3x less likely to get them than men. About 5% of the time, the surgeon needs to switch from a small laparoscopic navel incision to open surgery through a huge incision on the right side just under the ribs. Am I lucky, or what?

I’m in the hospital tomorrow, so my comics might be irregular for a few days. Not that they are like “regular comics” anyway.

Surgeons usually fantasize about wild and improbable surgeries. Someone collapses in a restaurant, you splice them open with a butter knife, replace a valve with a hollowed out stick of carrot– but every now and then some other kind of fantasy slips in. Most of our fantasies resolve when we wake, vanished to the back of our mind, but sometimes we’re sure if we try hard enough– we can live the dream.
Quotation from Grey’s Anatomy, Sometimes a Fantasy

When you see a taggy daggy (shirt tag sticking up), do you stop strangers on the street and tell them?

I base most of my fashion sense on what doesn’t itch.
Quotation from Gilda Radner

The reform protestors were likened (by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad) to sports fans over-reacting to a lost soccer game.

Mir-Hossein Mousavi ‘ready for martyrdom’ as Iranians defy Supreme Leader (Telegraph UK)

The study showed that in two provinces where Mr. Ahmadinejad won a week ago, a turnout of more than 100 percent was recorded.
Quotation from Chatham House, a London-based research organization

How is it that one can have lots of friends, and still be lonely? I miss Northie, who is hardly online anymore. I miss Chase, who “disappeared” when she had her baby. And I miss my father, who died in 1994.

My Father had a profound influence on me. He was a lunatic.
Quotation from Spike Milligan

You don’t have to deserve your mother’s love. You have to deserve your father’s.
Quotation from Robert Frost

Hello. Do you have any Weed & Feed?
Pardon me, ma’am?
It prevents seeds from germinating, but it’s good for wood.
Have you tried mulching?

Oh! he has trampled me
Under his feet, and made the blood stream down
My pallid cheeks. And he has given us all
Ditch-water, and the fever-stricken flesh
Of buffaloes, and bade us eat or starve,
And we have eaten.
Quotation from Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Cenci: A Tragedy in Five Acts

This is the time of the Strawberry Moon. But if a spell is necessary, don’t become overly reliant on the phase of the moon. The Moon is just one influence on how you live your life.

The three nights before the New Moon are known as the Dark of the Moon. As energies are uncertain and unpredictable at this time, casting spells in this period is not advised.
Quotation from MoonSlipper.com

The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.
Quotation from Somerset Maugham

It’s not me. It’s my alien hand. In fact, sometimes my whole body feels alien.

Gwen: I’m sorry George.
George: I don’t understand. Things were going so great. What happened? Something must have happened.
Gwen: It’s not you, it’s me.
George: You’re giving me the “it’s not you, it’s me” routine? I invented “it’s not you, it’s me”. Nobody tells me it’s them, not me. If it’s anybody, it’s me.
Gwen: All right, George, it’s you.
George: You’re damn right it’s me.
Quotation from Seinfeld Episode 70, The Lip Reader

Alien Hand Syndrome (DamnInteresting.com) The alien hand may undo buttons or tear clothes while the sufferer is completely unaware of what the hand is doing.