January 2010
28 posts
“On Friday, President Obama appeared before House Republicans during a historic...”
– SETH MEYERS, Weekend Update.
Fuckin’ A.
(via inothernews)
On honesty and integrity.
dearcoketalk:
How do I go about becoming more honest?
I’m 28 and have been smoking since I was 20 and I’ve never told my parents. I just don’t want to deal with the condescension and judgement that will come with my upper class liberal parents knowing that I smoke. And that’s how I deal with most things, if it’s easier, and cleaner to deal with a white(ish) lie than to deal with the truth then...
“To Democrats, I would remind you that we still have the largest majority in...”
– BARACK OBAMA.
Kickass.
(via inothernews)
Darn tootin’
16 Things That It Took Me 50 Years To Learn
luckyshirt:
by: Dave Barry, Nationally Syndicated Columnist
1. Never, under any circumstances, take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.
2 If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be ‘meetings.’
3. There is a very fine line between ‘hobby’ and ‘mental illness.’
4. People who...
“Out of all the things that you could draw on from your religion to bring comfort...”
– JON STEWART, on The Daily Show, responding to Pat Robertson’s asshat claims that the earthquake in Haiti was caused because Haitians had made a deal with the Devil. (via inothernews)
“There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is only the...”
– Alexandre Dumas (via kari-shma) (via quote-book)
“The truth is, I’ve never learned to ride a bicycle, because among other reasons,...”
– Book: The Opposite of Love by Julie Buxbaum (via sometimesitstoomuch) (via libraryland) (via quote-book)
“What did thinking ever do for me, to what great place did thinking ever bring...”
– ~ Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (via gatekeeper)
“You may not be her first, her last, or her only. She loved before she may love...”
– Bob Marley (via kari-shma)
“Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who...”
– Lemony Snicket (via kari-shma)
Grab the book closest to you, turn to page 47,...
smartasshat:
blanddiva11:
felicitousness:
susanimate: (via chiclet)
I shook her hand - mine looked very white compared with her dark skin - and told her my name.
“For the moment Old White stared thoughtfully at the river of humanity that had formed up along the plaza perimeter.”
… Personal note: DANG IT! I hadn’t gotten that far and wanted to be surprised!
…corner of the deck and saw...
Abe and John
24freedinners:
awomansplace:
brooklynmutt:
Abraham Lincoln was elected to Congress in 1846. John F. Kennedy was elected to Congress in 1946. Abraham Lincoln was elected President in 1860. John F. Kennedy was elected President in 1960. The names Lincoln and Kennedy each contain seven letters. Both were particularly concerned with civil rights. Both their wives lost their children...
You know how Moms are girls and Dads are boys?
barelysarcasm:
And you know how a boy/girl is called a hermaphrodite?
If your Mom was also your Dad could you call it a Hermomphrodad?