There is one big truth that used to hold from sea to shining sea and is now most keenly apprehended here: an argument against the individual right to bear arms is an argument that the average American is incompetent to contend with the most fundamental moral questions of life, death, and justice. It is an argument that assumes ordinary people cannot be entrusted with democracy.
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untitled by Shannon Ocean on Flickr.
For a change of pace from my normal scifi love, here’s a Spock.
We’re learning more about the dead Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez. It seems he amassed about $2 billion in personal fortune while president – and he was a socialist. Imagine how rich he could have been if he didn’t believe in redistribution of wealth.
“iwill climb on top of you in the night and settle like a tiny rain cloud”
we need more of these, who makes these? can I commission more. Need more.
Crying.
The part that had me laughing the most was the bottom one. That is my life. Every. Night.
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When all the nerds in the movie theater go “WOOOO!” during the next Star Wars at a time when it doesn’t make any sense to “WOOOO!” this is why.
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Apparently slamming on the brakes makes my son laugh hysterically. from Chris Turner on Vimeo.
Filmed in the very safe road conditions of our driveway.
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(Image credit: Billboard Magazine)
Yes, Richard Nixon really did meet Robocop. This is not a Photoshop job.
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A version for tumblr that can be read without opening a new tab, since plenty of people would scroll past this story otherwise.
The bravest woman on Earth.
Today is Women’s Day- a good day to celebrate this incredible young woman.
Barack Obama knows how to do one thing: elect Barack Obama to public office. … Obama certainly doesn’t know how to govern effectively; take away a Congress that will rubber-stamp the Democratic agenda and he flails about. He’s so bad at this, in fact, that when confronted with a situation where all he had to do was do nothing to fulfill a campaign promise (the tax cuts) we somehow ended up with a situation where Obama gave in on 98% of those tax cuts and voluntarily signed up to take the blame for the AMT fix. In short: Obama was woefully unprepared for the Presidency, and he hasn’t really spent the last four years trying to catch up. Instead, he goes from situation to situation either trying to recast the problem in ways that he does have some skill in (permanent campaigning for office), or else… flail about on the scene while hitting people’s buttons quickly and/or at random, in the hopes that eventually the laws of probability will allow him to bull on through anyway.
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Colored Pencils #001 by Pixel Seeker on Flickr.
I think you mean Chromato-American pencils…
