October 2011
Mitt Romney to his fellow Republicans: "Hey... →
ryking:
Remember kids: “Obamacare,” before it was “Romneycare,” was known as the “Health Equity and Access Reform Today Act of 1993” and was written by the Republican Party. Republicans were for the individual mandate before they were against it.
September 2011
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The feeblest branch: An underfunded court system... →
“How does a court go over the cliff? In unphotogenic slow motion, which makes the dire consequences harder to see. Since the budget cuts started in 2009, says Ms Feinstein, the court has been muddling through. Service has got slower, waiting times longer. An uncontested divorce now takes about half a year, she says.”
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constantflutters birdheart: White people, don't... →
readnfight:
Not sleeping enough last night is “definitely lacking.”
Running out of clean socks is “definitely lacking.”
Eating rice & beans way more often than you’d like is “definitely lacking.”
Needing to take a dump and being out of toilet paper is “definitely lacking.”
Declaring…
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STARFISH FORTRESS
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“The old appeals to racial, sexual, and religious chauvinism and to rabid...”
– Carl Sagan (via elige)
Aight kids I'm giving you this advice
30-40 years ago, the Republicans were deeply worried. Ideologically they had become very similar to the Democrats (Nixon-“We are all Keynesians now”, etc), and Watergate had ruined their brand. So what did they do?
They started running, for mayors, for local legislators, for state senators and congresspeeps. And now, those guys, who started in the grass roots, have been...
choking with anger at fucking hypermasculine kids...
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Random Thoughts and Mindless Conceptions:... →
andrewmw:
1. Don’t be an asshat. 2. Questions should be well thought out before being spoken. 3. They should also be relevant to the topic at hand. 4. If you didn’t do the reading, don’t join the discussion. Chances are, you have no fucking clue what is going on. 5. If you don’t know what the reading…
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As a senior in political science, I am right now...
What the fuck
I’m going to murder my dean
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Get to know me
scissor-happy:
joebradshaw:clocks-will-turn-to-our-time:
1. The meaning behind my URL 2. Weakness 3. Bestfriend(s) 4. Last time I cried and why 5. Piercings I have 6. Favorite Band 7. Biggest turn off(s) 8. Fact about my sex life 9. Tattoos I want 10. Biggest turn on(s) 11. Age 12. Ideas of a perfect date 13. Life goal(s) 14. Piercings I want 15. Relationship status 16. Favorite movie 17. A...
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Rick Perry's constiuency and the problem with the... →
Multiple former Hutchison advisers recalled asking a focus group about the charge that Perry may have presided over the execution of an innocent man – Cameron Todd Willingham – and got this response from a primary voter: “It takes balls to execute an innocent man.”
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when considering revolutionary tactics
gowns:
keep mothers and children in mind
your revolt is worthless if it harms mothers and children
your vision is incomplete if it does not include mothers and children
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.◈❁ animus vox ❁◈.: Cops are not...... →
conjuringseed:
weeptowaterthetrees:
Pigs. Pigs are amazing animals.
Cops are also not part of the 99%.
aaaaaaaaaactually most cops ARE part of the 99%. they’re out doing the dirty work for the people in power, they do not HAVE the power. they face all the same struggles that we do.
please treat cops…
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tehsaurus:
love-as-thou-wilt:
asiangore:
if anyone wore a shirt that said ‘cool story bro’ out in public i would throw a brick at them
that would be a cool story
I saw this at Hershey park this weekend. I looked for a brick. I was displeased when I couldn’t find one.
I have a shirt that says Cool Story Bro. Novelty Tees are my specialty. :] Throw a brick at me.
Come at her, bro...
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Anonymous asked: In my Intro to IR book when it describes realism, it describes states as being rational actors.
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