The GOP nationally has increased its Congressional majority in part because of brutal gerrymandering in Texas that obviated the regular procedures. Call it Tom DeLay Republicanism: whatever it takes to win. – Andrew Sullivan

“It had better not, or you can get yourself another naked dame!” – burlesque queen Georgia Sothern, on being told by H.K. Minsky that she wouldn’t be hit in the head with a microphone again during her next show.