Monday, August 18, 2003
The Quote Bag!
Former U.S. surgeon general David Satcher:
"Obesity is soon going to replace smoking as the number-one iller in this country." I always thought old age was the number one killer. Or heart disease, maybe, but that's pretty much the same thing. Everyone dies. No amount of breast-feeding is going to change that.
"I can't think of anything more natural than breastfeeding." I can. Dying. Does that mean dying is good, and should be encouraged in hospitals? Natural things are better, after all.
School district spokesman Mark Coplan:
"Berkeley is in the forefront of the field (of "voluntary desegregation"). I think other districts are looking to Berkeley." No. They're really not. Berkeley's schools suck. Other school districts tend to look to successful school districts. Berkeley really is full of dreamers. They always seem to think everyone is looking towards Berkeley for guidance in all things. It's so not true. Berkeley is unheard of at best, and a joke at worst. Besides, "voluntary desegregation" actually means forcing children to go to schools which are further from their homes than others. They don't have a choice. It's not really all that voluntary.
Concerning the Livermore Lab protest:
Nathan Britton, protester: "(development of smaller tactcal nuclear weapons) will blur the distinction between conventional and nuclear war." Isn't that a good thing? It's not that the distinction is being blurred by sleight of hand or anything. It's being blurred because smaller tactical nuclear weapons truly aren't full-scale nuclear weapons. The blurred distinction isn't going to make war suck any more than it already does.
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