35 thoughts on “Motto Contest!”

  3. I think Ted Rall’s given you one:
    moderation is death.
    Oops, that one belongs to Kos. How about this one:
    Democrats want to hear a strident voice echoing their opinions; Republicans want to throw something at those Goddamn commies.
    I think it could use some work; Rall always did suck at prose. Still, there’s some meat in there somewhere.
    Oh. Am I in the wrong thread?

  4. Don’t have a copy of Gene Wolfe’s _Peace_ on hand, but in it a character says something like, “It was an Irish wind – it blew East, West, North, South, and up and down, all at the same time.”

  5. Behold my tepid efforts!
    “Obsidian Wings – Moe is lonely”
    I went straight from shenanigans to crimes against humanity. – George Carlin
    Because these wings are no longer wings to fly
    But merely vans to beat the air – TS Eliot

  6. “And by the way, group blogs should have author credits at the top of posts, not the bottom.”
    I’ve been meaning to point this out for the longest time.
    Although it’s an amusing little game to read through a post, predicting by topic and style who TF wrote it.
    Okay, I admit that as catchy slogans go, it needs a little work, though.

  7. On the subject of moderation, there’s:
    “Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains.”
    – Democritus
    and
    “Moderation in temper is always a virtue, but moderation in principle is always a vice.”
    – Thomas Paine

  10. Do I get to submit?
    I like this one…
    There’s nothing in the middle of the road but yellow stripes . . . and dead armadillos.
    Sorry, I gave up moderation for Lent.

  11. There’s nothing in the middle of the road but yellow stripes . . . and dead armadillos.
    Well, I don’t hail from armadillo country, but ’round these parts (exurban Connecticut), roadkill is generally on either the left or the right side of the road (i.e. where the cars are actually driving). I suspect that the yellow stripe is safer than anywhere else on the road.
    Motto-wise, I’m struggling to come up with a political variation on Monty Python’s line “It’s like I always say — there’s nothing an agnostic can’t do if he really doesn’t know if he believes in anything or not”.

  15. The Dolby® Digital Surround Sound of the Blogsphere — Featuring Right, Left and Center Inputs with the Ambiance Channel Dialed to 11.

  23. “The Dolby® Digital Surround Sound of the Blogsphere — Featuring Right, Left and Center Inputs with the Ambiance Channel Dialed to 11.”
    Shouldn’t it be Dobly, in keeping with us going up to 11?

  26. Obsidian Wings: “The New Coke of the Blogosphere”
    One more:
    Obsidian Wings: “Where regression to the mean is a virtue”

  33. Am I running into some kind of politely undeclared upper limit on entries?
    To satisfy the inner geek:
    Obsidian Wings: You’ll never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious.

  34. “Obsidian Wings: Just because those guys on the other side are ignorant, dishonest bastards doesn’t mean we can’t be friends”

  35. Just for the record, I’ve never thought of this: “Sanely free of McCarthyite calling anyone a “traitor” since 2001!” as a primary motto or slogan of my blog, though I occasionally run candidates for such a thing through my head.
    I just inserted that one day at a point when I was ready to blow my cork at reading one-too-many examples of the word being tossed around, with the ease which is so common in the blogosphere, from both left and right.
    I reserve the word “traitor” for someone who has done somethng such as pass atomic secrets to an enemy we are war with, or taken up arms against the U.S. Conviction in a court of law tends to be required as proof.
    I think discussion would be healthier if everyone used a description along those lines, rather than “I thoroughly disagree with the terrible thing that person said about our government/country!”
    Just another of my oddball beliefs.

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