Comments on: News That Bites

By: Kris Amundson

Kris Amundson — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 15:58:02 +0000

My very favorite Fitzgerald quote. Applicable to so many people one meets in this line of work.

By: Bob Brink

Bob Brink — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 15:36:47 +0000

Actually, I think Fitzgerald’s “the rich are different from you and me” is at least a close second in the AmLit Vapid Sweepstakes. But he redeemed himself with this: “They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made . . . .”

By: Kris Amundson

Kris Amundson — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 15:30:19 +0000

This is really sweet. But we are a LOT younger than Ted Stevens. And I agree with Steve about the Fitzgerald quote, which for a girl who went to college in St. Paul is pretty much like admitting to heresy.

By: Steve Vaughan

Steve Vaughan — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 15:18:44 +0000

Very sorry to hear that Kris is leaving. She’s one of the General Assembly’s class acts.
BTW: Fitzgerald’s “no second acts in American lives’ may be the single stupidest sentence written in the English langauge for which I am not personally responsible. The amazing thing about American lives is how many of them have third, fourth and even fifth acts. In a country with a divorce rate of 50%, there’s a lot of second acts.