Amy Rose's 115th Dream

And while I will always fall short of Madiba's example, he makes me want to be better. He speaks to what is best inside us. After this great liberator is laid to rest; when we have returned to our cities and villages, and rejoined our daily routines, let us search then for his strength -- for his largeness of spirit -- somewhere inside ourselves.

"Tonight there will be few Americans who will go to bed without carrying with them the sense that somehow they have failed. If in the search of our conscience we find a new dedication to the American concepts that brook no political, sectional, religious or racial divisions, then maybe it may yet be possible to say that John Fitzgerald Kennedy did not die in vain."

not great, admittedly

We wake up and look on the floor; no Bailey. We walk back into the apartment, and we look down in our foyer; no Bailey. What an empty feeling. I assume we'll have that feeling for a long time...The easiest way to not feel this grief is to never have a dog. And what an empty life that would be.

Rep Joe Barton (R) Texas, on how defaulting isn't that big of a deal: It doesn't mean that we have to pay every bill the day it comes in.