01:15 PM
Observatorium The Witty New Yorker

My grandmother subscribed to the New Yorker for years and I grew up reading it in the bathroom, appreciating the Dorothy Parker-Noel Coward wit of it.

And they're still doing it, now I read them in an RSS feed and that brought me this article about rickshaws aka bicycle taxis in Manhattan with this luscious quote (you do remember that I'm a liberal card-carrying ACLU Democrat, right? :)):

The pedicab may merely suggest rather than entirely embody the new America of puller and pulled, but it is a sharp symbol of a new reality. It even evokes new metaphors. For instance, the thing about George W. Bush is not that he was born on third base and thinks he hit a triple. It is that he has been in a bicycle taxi all his life but has not yet bothered to notice that someone else is pedalling.

[chortle] Definitely goes in my sig quote file!