"Is there anyone who thinks sexual harassment is a real thing?"
— John Derbyshire, National Review Online
(Source: nationalreview.com)
Herman Cain has really strange campaign videos. This one is a Western, and the actor I guess is representing Cain. I also don’t understand why the actors are drinking alcohol and spitting it out - is it supposed to be like tobacco. Anyhoo, really weird, almost genius weird.
(Source: Mother Jones)
A boy left his bike chained to a tree when he went away to war in 1914. He never returned, leaving the tree no choice but to grow around the bike.
(Source: her0inchic, via s1mn)
10/23 is always national mole day, in honor of Avogadro’s number 6.02 x 10^23. Please celebrate appropriately.
I Know Pat Buchanan Is Crazy But Seriously
Talking Points Memo has a post on the 12 craziest things from Pat Buchanan’s new book. This one really caught my eye:
Before the 1960s, equality meant every citizen enjoyed the same constitutional rights and the equal protection of existing laws. Nothing in the Constitution or federal law mandated social racial, or gender equality.
Really, Pat? Everything was hunky-dory before 1960? I guess slavery & Jim Crow were just figments of everyone’s imagination.
I think one of the worst recent trends is for conservatives to bitch and moan about how awful life is for them. The phrase “back of the bus” should be thrown under the bus.
(Source: tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com)
Thanks Koch brothers! The Koch brothers funded a study that was supposed to take a skeptical look at the temperature record but proved climate scientists were right, the earth is warming, now at a rate of 2.76 C/century.
Who are the freeloaders again? It looks like most government revenue is paid by wage earners - that means the Republican talking point that 47% “pay no taxes” is completely wrong. 40% pay no federal income tax, but they do pay state/local tax and payroll tax, which accounts for almost 1/3 of government revenue.
