January 2012
Darwin censored by the Turkish government's porn... →
Soon the US will be doing the same
Obama Signing Statement: The NDAA Doesn’t Apply To... →
December 2011
“After they took power in January, the hard-line Republicans who dominate the...”
– New York Times Editors
File Under: reason to vote in 2012 (via liberalsarecool)
Greater Than Lapsed: 11 Quotes From 2011 →
think-progress:
1. “There’s been class warfare going on for the last 20 years, and my class has won.” — Warren Buffett
2. “Gay rights are human rights and human rights are gay rights.” — Hillary Clinton
3. “Today, we are all Troy Anthony Davis. Tonight, a little piece of all of us…
“Queer people do not need to offer excuses or defend their own existence. If one...”
– » Fauxgress Watch: “Born This Way” Social Justice League (via a-bayani)
"Stop the hate! Taste the rainbow!" →
Lower classes quicker to show compassion in the... →
the UC Berkeley study found that individuals in the upper middle and upper classes were less able to detect and respond to the distress signals of others. Overall, the results indicate that socio-economic status correlates with the level of empathy and compassion that people show in the face of emotionally charged situations.
“I studied every page of this book, and I didn’t find enough love to fill a salt...”
– Ruth Hurmence Green (via deconversionmovement)
“Since the publication of my first book “The End of Faith,” thousands of people...”
– Sam Harris (via thatbeardedatheist)
Percentage increase in National Debt by Presidency →
mohandasgandhi:
Reagan 189.0% Bush 43 89.0% Bush 41 51.6% Carter 42.6% Clinton 36.0% Obama 34.0%
But Reagan was a capitalist god! Let us invoke the spirits of Ronald Reagan and Ayn Rand for wisdom on how to deal with the current economic crisis.
Percentage increase in National Debt by Presidency →
mohandasgandhi:
Reagan 189.0% Bush 43 89.0% Bush 41 51.6% Carter 42.6% Clinton 36.0% Obama 34.0%
But Reagan was a capitalist god! Let us invoke the spirits of Ronald Reagan and Ayn Rand for wisdom on how to deal with the current economic crisis.
Argentina's Last Dictator Will Finally Go to Jail... →
“Corporations are not people; money is not speech.”
– (via other-stuff)
“Well, I’ve changed the course of music five or six times. What have you done...”
– Miles Davis to Nancy Reagan at a White House dinner in 1987 after she’d inquired as to what he’d done with his life to merit an invitation. source (via marxisforbros
)
For over 5 years, Soldiers punished for not... →
abaldwin360:
But Christians are persecuted… heh
The liberty of local bullies →
I have often remarked in the past how libertarianism - at least, its modern American manifestation - is not really about increasing liberty or freedom as an average person would define those terms. An ideal libertarian society would leave the vast majority of people feeling profoundly constrained in many ways. This is because the freedom of the individual can be curtailed not only by the...
Gingrich Floats Choosing Sarah Palin as Vice... →
ryking:
Wow, you can see the desperation to win the GOP’s Tea Party wing shimmering off Gingrich like heat.
“But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.”
– George Orwell, 1984 (via solipsism2)
Reblog if you'd vote for Ru Paul over voting for...
tenderstatue:
stfuconfederates:
littleblackkittycat:
#lolbertarians - lmao
Oh fuckin’ hell yeah.
Ru for President!
Spanish TV is so incredible bad!! I can’t take it. Wishing my mother in law to leave so I don’t have to take it anymore.
SOPA update: Congress downloads porn while trying... →
Romney Will Not Release Tax Returns
Steve Benen sums up why Mitt Romney — unlike every presidential candidate since Watergate — won’t release his tax returns:
1. Mitt Romney is worth $250 million. 2. He got rich by laying off American workers. 3. He pays a lower tax rate than you and the rest of the middle class. 4. He wants to be president so he can keep it this way.
…and Romney still collects seven-figure checks from his...
