Overheard

"I have had many abortions. I have have many close friends who have had many abortions. Working at a clinic we have a lot of women who have had 10+ abortions."
- Commenter at LiveJournal AbortionInfo to a woman concerned about having a third abortion


"He's a serial murderer."
- Cindy Sheehan referring to President Bush


"When you have a 14 or 15-year-old with three little girls... she is doomed to poverty."
- John Edwards at a campaign stop.


"Working together, the teams started devising projects to analyse the genetics of human embryonic stem cells, with Dr Eggan's team generating the cells on one side of the bridge and their DNA being analysed on the other side.

But on August 9 2001 a metaphorical shutter came down that closed the bridge as effectively as if it had been bricked up. George Bush issued a presidential decree banning the use of federal funds for research on new human embryonic stem cell lines."
- Ed Pilkington completely forgetting to note there was no federal funding for any kind of embryonic stem cell research before the August 9 decision.