Quote of the Day

“The late Chic Hecht, a lovely man who also said [Martin Luther King] had ‘not been dead long enough’ to merit holiday, makes Harry Reid look like Cicero.” — Jon Ralston, from his Twitter feed, on Nevada‘s famously malaprop-prone senator, who is best remembered for having referred to Yucca Mountain as a “suppository” for nuclear waste … which was not without an element of poetic truth.