August 2011
60 posts
“If we Tea Partiers were terrorists, Obama would be palling around with us.”
—Sarah Palin
“Kim Jong Il (R-Ohio)”
—Lincolnfan, on Republicans
Politicalprof: Sometimes it takes a Democrat →
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There’s an old saying that “only Nixon could go to China.”
The notion was that only someone with the strong anti-Communist record that Nixon had amassed could open relations with China. Because Nixon had spent much of his political career attacking Communism, particularly in the US (he was…
“I’d like to refocus everyone’s attention away from the Kardashians and onto Doctors Without Borders or aid workers. Let’s redefine scandal. Scandal is not who so-and-so is dating; scandal is the fact that 1.2 million people are still living in tents in Haiti, and cholera is rampant because Nepalese U.N. soldiers dumped shit from their Porta-Potties into the river. That’s a fucking scandal. If the average 15-year-old was hearing about that instead of so-and-so’s plastic surgery or cheating in Hollywood, I’d feel better about our future.”
—Olivia Wilde to Marie Claire (via monkeyknifefight)
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This man is my representative to the United States House of Representatives. I would prefer not to be represented at all, thank you.
July 2011
34 posts
“During my freshman year of college, a psychology professor devised an exercise he called The Ultimate Truth. It was a free association game played using flash cards. Each student was given 20 cards. On the front were the names of our classmates, the backs were blank. On the back, we free-associated one adjective about each person and when everyone was done, all of the cards with your name on the front were handed back to you.
Imagine the verbal brawl that occurred at the next class when we discussed the findings as a group. One guy had been described as a drunk by more than half of the class. And a sophomore couple who had been dating since orientation, were shocked to learn that she found him untrustworthy and he thought she was selfish. Ouch.
The Professor included himself in the lesson and was not the least bit surprised by what he read. Over six years and hundreds of students, the most common answer was flighty. Far from upset, he was always impressed by how no one held back or tried to stroke his ego, which was the whole point of the exercise.
The Professor’s lesson: People usually don’t know that others think of them, and the majority don’t really want to know.
” —
5 Reasons The House GOP Is To Blame →
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Reblogged from timzimm, this is harder to read than Krugman’s, but a little more detailed.
“The Tea Party is a wild card. Everybody is really afraid of what they might do.”
—Rush Limbaugh
“Nothing can be done to bring Mr Breivik’s victims back to life. The most compelling, non-mystical case for vengeance is that it offers some consolation to those wracked by desolation and fury at the murder of their loved one. But the point of a criminal justice system in a civilised society is not the mental peace of those collaterally wounded by crime. All evidence supports the proposition that Norway’s criminal justice system is both practically and morally superior to America’s. If America’s abominably cruel and unjust system delivered results even remotely comparable to Norway’s enviable level of civil peace and order, then there might be some reason to take seriously American animadversions against Norway’s short sentences and humane prison. But we don’t. We’re not even close. So Americans should just shut up and watch. It could do us some good to see how a civilised society handles such a horrifying crime.”
—Will Wilkinson, Plush and unusual punishment (via ilyagerner)
“Facebook users may now display that they have an “Expected: Child” within the family section of their profile beneath their profile picture… However, in what appears to be a glitch, users are able to set an existing Facebook friend as their expected child. This doesn’t make any sense because Facebook’s terms of service dictate that all users must be at least 13 years of age. Aside from the glitch, which will likely be corrected..”
…apparently the insidefacebook.com doesn’t have any of their BFFLs listed as their children…
” —http://www.insidefacebook.com/Guns Not Butter (4.12)
- CJ: Are you talking through the whole vote?
- Danny: You're going to lose this one 60-40.
- CJ: Danny.
- Danny: Did I ruin the end?
- CJ: Could you even have thismuch sensitivity?
- Danny: No.
- CJ: Why?
- Danny: Cause you blew it.
- CJ: The Senate blew it.
- Danny: You did.
- CJ: We did everything but pass a hat!
- Danny: Nobody wants to put money in a hat in Botswana when you got hats that need filling here. You can't make this about charity, it's about self-interest. We cut farm assistance in Colombia - every single crop we developed was replaced with cocaine. We cut aid for primary education in northwest Pakistan and Egypt - the kids went to madrassas. Why weren't you making a case that Republican senators are bad on drugs, and bad on national security? Why are Democrats always so bumfuzzled?
Thesis Survey →
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Hi guys- I’m doing some preliminary work for my senior thesis, and if you’ve got five minutes to take this survey for me (it’s only 10 questions about how politicians use Facebook and Twitter) it would be a great help!
