“Time was when Catholics (who, you know, *invented* the university) worked and saved and struggled so that their kids could get through college. Now you have guys like Santorum talking like dimestore Protestant preachers denouncing them fancy pants college boys with their degrees and championing the glories of Know Nothingism as a moral virtue.”
—Arch-Catholic Mark Shea. (via liberalsarecool)
March 2012
February 2012
"I can’t believe I burned down a tree older then Jesus." →
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26-year-old Sarah Barnes’s alleged response to allegedly burning down the fifth oldest tree in the world—a 3,500-year-old, 118-foot-tall bald cypress—while (allegedly) on meth. Barnes is allegedly from Florida.
Activate the Mechanism!: Texas TBagger Doctor Indicted In Largest Medicare Fraud In History →
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“If we had 51% women in Congress, do you think we’d be debating access to contraception?”
—Sen. Kristen Gillibrand (via subconciousevolution)
“I don’t believe in an America where there’s a separation of church and state… Saying there’s no place for people of faith in the public square? It just makes me want to throw up!”
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GOP presidential candidate RICK SANTORUM, on ABC News This Week.
Even Jesus Christ thinks this dick is a dick.
(via inothernews)Update: US bank Wachovia laundered $70b for Mexican drug cartels
http://wikileaks.org/gifiles/docs/1115826_re-us-bank-dirty-money-.html
Cartels benefit, banks benefit, the Mexican people get screwed. Absolutely disgusting.
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I’m fascinated by [America’s income inequality] because a lot of the people who vote for this laissez-faire market policy are the people who get creamed by it.
It’s like a casino: They’re looking at the guy winning- the guy who pulled the lever and all the bells went off and all the coins fell out of the slot machine- and they think “that could be me. I want to play by those rules.” But actually those are the house rules, and most of you are going to lose.
” —David Simon on unregulated capitalism (via thesoapboxschtick)
Now if he would just stop wearing those Hawaiian shirts.
(via paxamericana)
