If Santorum is elected, he’ll probably ban gay marriage. You know, the way Obama closed Guantanamo.

theconceptlibrarian:

Cause these guys really believe in all their platform issues, and they’re not just doing it for attention.

suck it, single issue voters.

(via thenelsontwins)

coketalk:

Defend Our Freedom to Share (or Why SOPA is a Bad Idea)

This TED Talk by Clay Shirky is the most elegant and potent argument against SOPA and PIPA I’ve ever heard.

Everyone should watch this.

Seconded.

(Source: coketalk)

spiegelman:

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oof.

Evil Newt

azspot:

Supervillain or Newt

>Welcome to the Supervillain or Newt Game, where you have to decide whether an idea comes from an indestructible megalomaniac hell-bent on ruling the world, or from a fictional supervillain.

so fun and so depressing, all at the same time!

"The Minnesota congresswoman is otherwise full of praise for both Bush and Boehner."

—ABS news reporting on Michelle Bachmann’s new memoir. Kudos, reporter Russell Goldman, for giving this momentous tome the respect it deserves.

(Source: wonkette.com)

This article seems kind of important. If nothing else, accurate.

No wonder the Republicans don’t trust Budget Director Jacob Lew. He has the most easily forge-able signature in the US Government. 

(via Daily Intel)

(via Daily Intel)

azspot:John Sherffius

julieklausner:

joemande:

New York: Do yourself a favor and COME TO THIS SHOW. 

Reserve tickets here.

 See you there. Excited!

(via bbook)

conscientious:

“Some things leave us speechless and this bite of Twitter wisdom is one of them. There are no words for this ridiculousness though it really does put things into perspective.” - Hrag Vartanian

VOTE SANITY 2010

and this girl won’t be able to watch him, because she’s closing down her polling station in Williamsburg. Boos.

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Try to keep up: The dehumanizing bigotries that fall from the lips of “faithful Christians,” and the lies about us that vomit out from the pulpits of churches that “faithful Christians” drag their kids to on Sundays, give your children license to verbally abuse, humiliate, and condemn the gay children they encounter at school. And many of your children—having listened to Mom and Dad talk about how gay marriage is a threat to family and how gay sex makes their magic sky friend Jesus cry—feel justified in physically abusing the LGBT children they encounter in their schools. You don’t have to explicitly “encourage [your] children to mock, hurt, or intimidate” queer kids. Your encouragement—along with your hatred and fear—is implicit. It’s here, it’s clear, and we’re seeing the fruits of it: dead children.

Oh, and those same dehumanizing bigotries that fill your straight children with hate? They fill your gay children with suicidal despair. And you have the nerve to ask me to be more careful with my words?

Did that hurt to hear? Good. But it couldn’t have hurt nearly as much as what was said and done to Asher Brown and Justin Aaberg and Billy Lucas and Cody Barker and Seth Walsh—day-in, day-out for years—at schools filled with bigoted little monsters created not in the image of a loving God, but in the image of the hateful and false “followers of Christ” they call Mom and Dad.

—Dan Savage, in response to this letter.  I recommend the full read.

themadeshop:

Gay Kids Are Dying, Fuck Your Feelings
October 14, 2010

Dear Dan: I was listening to the radio yesterday morning, and I heard an interview with you about your It Gets Better campaign. I was saddened and frustrated with your comments regarding people of faith and their perpetuation of…

click through to read in full. do it.

(Source: chriskelly)