The Frustrated CFO

PRESIDENT LAURA ROSLIN You seem hell-bend on paying some kind of penance for whatever it's you think you've done. Instead of resigning, why don't you get up and walk out of here, meet me on the port-hangar deck tomorrow evening for this ceremony and let me pin a fucking medal to your chest. ADMIRAL

"Well, fads they come and fads they go. And, God, I love that rock-and-roll! Well, the point was fast, but it was too blunt to miss. Life handed us a paycheck, we said, 'We worked harder than this.'" Modest Mouse "Bury Me With It."

Pookie, the Most Wonderful Cat in the World September 13, 1997 - May 15, 2012

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"My answer is no, ther're not all Michele Bachmann. Half of them are Michele Bachmann. The other half are afraid of losing to Michele Bachmann." Barney Frank

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Louis C.K. is right - the shittiest cellphone on the market right now is an amazing piece of technology that, in its design and abilities, exceeded all expectations we had for hand-held devices twenty years ago (this is not the quote of the week, by the way). Business folk, plagued by the email-sepa

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