May 7, 2009
What century is it?
Here is the quote of the week. It’s from Senator David Weinstein during the floor debate on a weakened version of a statewide smoking ban, which Weinstein vigorously opposed.
Search
Previous Posts
- NAMI-NC: Fearing unintended consequences
- An open letter to Larry Kissell
- State Health Plan responds to university faculty
- Top of the morning
view full archive » subscribe to feed
Web Links
- BlueNC
- Capital Beat (Greensboro News-Record)
- Capital Commentary (Wilmington Star News)
- Capital Letters (Asheville Citizen-Times)
- Deathwatch (Death penalty updates)
- Equality NC blog
- Exile on Jones Street
- Isaac Hunter’s Tavern (WUNC Radio)
- Leftyblogs
- Let’s Talk Politics (Hickory Daily Record)
- NC Conservation Network Blog
- North Carolina Economics
- Orange Politics
- Public Policy Polling
- Say Ahhh!
- Stop NCAR (Realtor’s Assn. watchdog)
- The Arc of North Carolina Policy Blog
- The People’s Business (Fayetteville Observer)
- This Old State (Charlotte Observer)
- Triangulator (Independent Weekly)
- Under the Dome (News & Observer)
- Watauga Watch
3 Comments Add yours »
Looks like the senator must be serious about his plans to retire and (maybe) become chair of the ABC Commission. Not sure that anyone other than a senator who simply doesn’t give a darn anymore would make such a bizarre attempt at “humor.”
I’m just glad there are no cameras in the Senate disrupting the high-minded public discourse of that august body.
According to Adam Linker, the century is the 19th – 1885 to be precise when Kipling’s poem “The Betrothed” was published. That’s where the line is from.