The best of Lester, the worst of Lester...

You are the best. You are the worst. You are average. Your love is a part of you. You try to give it away because you cannot bear its radiance, but you cannot separate it from yourself. To understand your fellow humans, you must understand why you give them your love. You must realize that hate is but a crime-ridden subdivision of love. You must reclaim what you never lost. You must take leave of your sanity, and yet be fully responsible for your actions. - Gnarls Barkley, in a letter to the legendary rock critic Lester Bangs

Wanted: a few more smart people

Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people. - H. L. Mencken

 

Box office

Although Pearl Harbor cost approximately US$132 million to film and promote, it grossed a relatively modest US$200 million at the domestic box office, but it soon earned a respectable US$450 million worldwide.^[2] The film was ranked the seventh highest-earning picture of 2001.

But if we had the information, we might have to think for ourselves.

Paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people. – Former US Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black 

[bolded words mine]

 

Journalism and truth

Objective journalism and an opinion column are about as similar as the Bible and Playboy magazine. – Walter Cronkite