April 2009
“The availability of Plan B has some worried that more young people will become...”
– Small Victory in Access to Contraception | LiveScience (via sexartandpolitics)]
“The President approached me when he was Senator Obama, before the Democratic...”
– Senator Arlen Spector (via absurdlakefront) (via apsies)
“There is no plausible scenario under which Republicans can grow into a majority...”
– From Olympia Snowe’s Op-Ed in the NYT today, concerning Arlen Specter’s move yesterday. (via apsies)
“I like to see people reunited, I like to see people run to each other, I like...”
– jonathan safran foer (via racheldorn)
“I find it interesting that it was back in the 1970s that the swine flu broke out...”
– Congresswoman Michele Bachmann, (R-Crazy)
Only it happened in ‘76 under President Ford.
(via notthatkindagay) (via nashvilleneedsmoremetaphors)
Watchpica:
Hands down, the best Bea Arthur video (of the non-Golden-Girls genre): reading from a novel penned by Pam Anderson.
“God created the sun, the stars, the heavens and the earth, and then made Adam...”
– Carl Everett, noted thinker, philosopher, outfielder.
I DEFY you to find a hole in that logic.
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(via robot-heart-politics)
Dedication
zachattack:
“For Ashley. Cat lover, friend of strays, and inspired by kittens everywhere.”
From the children’s book I just wrote about cats at the suggestion of Ashley. Eunice, the X-ray Pony came in a very close second…sorry Dazz.
I hate cats but this was sweet.
The Need to Roll Back Presidential Power Grabs By... →
rendit:(via barthel)
Rumsfeld: “I stand for 8-10 hours a day. Why is... →
retropolitics:
via Murray Waas
It was a historic moment. On Dec. 2, 2002, then-Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld signed a memorandum authorizing interrogation techniques against detainees at Guantanamo that the current President of the United States, Barack Obama, has described as “torture.” In a handwritten notation at the bottom of the memo, apparently believing that the U.S. government...
“[Atheists] are connecting on the Internet, holding meet-ups in bars, advertising...”
– More Atheists Shout It From the Rooftops - NYTimes.com(via robot-heart-politics)
Colbert Study: Conservatives Don't Know He's... →
(via randomonium)
“Do you think Hugo Chavez or anyone else in the world thinks Barack Obama shaking...”
– Joe Biden (via apsies)
“So Bobby Jindal makes fun of ‘volcano monitoring’, and soon afterwards Mt....”
– Nobel Prize winning economist Paul Krugman
(via peterwknox) (via jonathan-deamer)
“Under my administration, the days of science taking a back seat to ideology are...”
– President Obama, in this morning’s address to the National Academy of Sciences.
(via thewordunheard) (via peterwknox)
“Here are the big issues for normal people: the war, the economy, the...”
– Bill Maher (via azspot)
“The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.”
– Coco Chanel
“President Bush assured us in no uncertain terms that “we don’t torture.” Turns...”
– Jon Stewart Takes on Torture Supporters (via retropolitics)
“Maybe that’s all family really is. A group of people who miss the same imaginary...”
– Garden State
If I believed in god, I would definitely pray for the ability to teleport.
She does it again...
robot-heart-politics
Rep. Christopher Smith (R-NJ): —my question: Is the Obama administration seeking, in any way, to weaken or overturn pro-life laws and policies in African and Latin-American countries, either directly or through multi-lateral organizations, including and especially the United Nations, African Union, or the OAS, or by way of funding NGOs like Planned Parenthood; and, secondly,...
“Overall, 52 percent think a television is a necessity. That is the lowest figure...”
– What’s a Necessity? (via Mike Hudack) (via marco)
ANDREW SULLIVAN: THINKING. OUT. LOUD. | More... →
peterwknox:
Awesome profile of Andrew Sullivan
One of America’s most-read bloggers is Catholic, conservative, gay, pro-Obama—and from East Grinstead. Johann Hari profiles Andrew Sullivan, a writer with an extraordinary tale to tell …
“It is the grimmest of ironies that one of the most savage, barbaric acts of evil...”
– President Obama’s speech for the Holocaust Remembrance ceremony, yesterday at the Capitol Rotunda
via Firedoglake (via jeeves)
“I apply the Abraham Lincoln test for moral casuistry: “If slavery is not wrong,...”
– Hitchens
“Justice Breyer asked whether what was done to Redding is all that different from...”
– The Supreme Court is neither hot nor bothered by strip searching students (via katoleary)
PBS: Full length episodes of shows and...
sarahchristine:
http://www.pbs.org/video/
Happy Birthday, Tyler! →
“I’m more comfortable being disappointed. And I think I’m angry with you for...”
– Last Chance Harvey (via filmquotes)
“Every single day we can do something to make the world a better place, to...”
– Hillary Clinton jokes at a State Department event on climate change (via apsies)
“…when the Republicans impeached a president for committing perjury in a civil...”
– Andrew Sullivan (via retropolitics) (via mandalay)
First 100 Days Retrospective: Ford, Carter, Reagan →
(via azspot)
Watchsuitep: hoarr: Playboy.com Journalist Bets He Can Endure 15 Seconds of Waterboarding
Nothing’s so bad that you can’t do 15 seconds of it.
travors:
Heretics - Andrew Bird
Thank god it’s...
“I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I...”
– Susan B. Anthony (via brigno)
jamesnord:
Band of Horses - The Funeral
3 years...