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"Listen, smile, agree, and then do whatever the fuck you were going to do anyway." ~ Robert Downey Jr.
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"Just because you're offended, doesn't mean you're right." ~ Ricky Gervais
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Left at Joe. My. God. in response to this.
"Little Ricky Frothy Mix stamping his widdle teabagger feet, hoping the wingnuts will save his now dead and rotting campaign. What is clearer than clear is this sad pathetic self-hating closet case is gay—very, very, very, very gay. And it scares the froth out of him every waking moment of his hateful little life. Spew all the hate you want Ricky; it won't make those glorious images of all those naked men you dream of go away. Barracade your closet door all you want. It won't change the fact that you are what you fear most, and what you clearly desire most." ~ DaveinSF
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"Now, you can call this class warfare all you want, but asking a billionaire to pay at least as much as his secretary in taxes? Most Americans would call that common sense." ~ Barack Obama SOTU
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"I worry that the focus on Gingrich's adultery will distract us from the fact that he's also a racist asshole." ~ Andy Borowitz
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"Already done. To 'rick' is to remove something with your tongue—the 'r' from 'remove,' the 'ick' from 'lick'— which makes 'rick santorum' the most disgusting two-word sentence in the English language after 'vote Republican.'" ~ Dan Savage, responding to a reader who asked after his successful Google campaign to redefine "Santorum" when he was going to redefine the Senator's first name
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"People who dismiss the unemployed and dependent as "parasites" fail to understand economics and parasitism. A successful parasite is one that is not recognized by its host; one that can make its host work for it without appearing as a burden. Such is the ruling class in a capitalistic society." ~ Jason Read
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"And, suddenly, the dogwhistles have turned into air-raid sirens.
I think, maybe, it's time for the nation to rise up and point out to the Republican party that, root and branch, it is a racist embarrassment to democracy and a blight on this nation that all the world can see." ~ Charles Pierce
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"The universe has to move forward. Pain and loss, they define us as much as happiness or love. Whether it's a world or a relationship. Everything has its time. And everything ends." ~ Sarah Jane Smith, Doctor Who School Reunion
Sorry for the kind of depressing quote. Just thinking about our country. More than even during the horrific Bush years (when I started blogging) I believe we are witnessing the decline and fall of the United States, and it saddens me to see what we've become.
"Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity." ~ William Butler Yeats
We may be able to slow the process down somewhat by making good, progressive choices in November, but I really have no hope that we'll be able to reverse course completely. This is not the dream of the 21st Century that we were presented with as children…
Where is that man in the blue box when you need him?
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"I don't see anyone in the GOP majority demanding drug testing for folks who receive oil and gas subsidies." ~ Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC)
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"A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in." ~ Greek Proverb
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"Good fiction's job is to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable." ~ David Foster Wallace
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"You know, when you're a kid, they tell you it's all: Grow up, get a job, get married, get a house, have a kid…and that's it. But the truth is, the world is so much stranger than that. It's so much darker…and so much madder…and so much better" ~ Elton, from the Doctor Who episode Love & Monsters
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"I wish Android had an Instagram app so I could post pictures of food too!" — my wonderfully snarky and adorable Ben
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"Other countries care for their mentally ill. Making them debate on TV is just cruel." — Andy Borowitz
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"Homophobes aren't going to hell, like they often say their perceived opponents are. Rather they are in hell, and they prolong their stay with each hateful act, word, and thought." — Rob Delaney
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"Anyone who believes that the bible is inerrant has obviously never even read the first two chapters." – Julia Sweeney
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"I'll believe corporations are people when Georgia and Texas execute them" — Robert Reich
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"Can we just ask EVERY voter, "Do you watch Fox news?" If they say yes, have someone jangle a key ring in front of their face and lead them out the back door… they will think they've voted… no harm, no foul. Right?" – comment at Talking Points Memo
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"I went into photography because it seemed like the perfect vehicle for commenting on the madness of today's existence." — Robert Mapplethorpe (1946-1989)
Food for Thought
"Our passionate preoccupation with the sky, the stars, and a god somewhere in outer space is a homing impulse. We are drawn back to where we came from." ~ Eric Hoffer (1902-1983), American social thinker and longshoreman
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Shakespeare Was Spot On
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"To those millions of Americans who have finally begun paying attention to politics and watched with exasperation the tragicomedy of the debt ceiling extension, it may have come as a shock that the Republican Party is so full of lunatics. To be sure, the party, like any political party on earth, has always had its share of crackpots, like Robert K. Dornan or William E. Dannemeyer. But the crackpot outliers of two decades ago have become the vital center today: Steve King, Michele Bachman (now a leading presidential candidate as well), Paul Broun, Patrick McHenry, Virginia Foxx, Louie Gohmert, Allen West. The Congressional directory now reads like a casebook of lunacy." — Mike Lofgren