That was a “totally different” situation, Inhofe told MSNBC, arguing that the Sandy aid was filled with pork. There were “things in the Virgin Islands. They were fixing roads there and putting roofs on houses in Washington, D.C.”
“Everyone was getting in and exploiting the tragedy that took place,” he said. “That won’t happen in Oklahoma.
P.R. Claim: Religion fosters family closeness and family values.
LITERALLY HOW I FELT ABOUT EVERY ASSHOLE WHITE PERSON WHO CAME WITH LEGALIZE WEED SIGNS AT MAY DAY TODAY IN LOS ANGELES.
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anonymous asked: Yo, when are the CEOs of these big corporations that took all these huge government bailouts being asked to take drug tests to prove they aren’t spending it all on drugs??
Weird, it’s almost like right-wing assholes only care about that stuff when it’s poor people who have to be held to a higher standard.
kittens have their first sips of water [x]
“GOD DAMN THAT’S REFRESHING”
I SAY GODDAMN
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Donald Glover talking about the comments he received during his campaign to be the next Spider-Man (x)
“I was talking about it with Dan Eckman, who directed my Bonfire video. Can you imagine that trailer? That would be dope. Like it makes sense… a poor black kid in Queens. Like it just fits.”
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I had an auto-repair man once, who, on these intelligence tests, could not possibly have scored more than 80, by my estimate. I always took it for granted that I was far more intelligent than he was. Yet, when anything went wrong with my car I hastened to him with it, watched him anxiously as he explored its vitals, and listened to his pronouncements as though they were divine oracles - and he always fixed my car.
Well, then, suppose my auto-repair man devised questions for an intelligence test. Or suppose a carpenter did, or a farmer, or, indeed, almost anyone but an academician. By every one of those tests, I’d prove myself a moron, and I’d be a moron, too. In a world where I could not use my academic training and my verbal talents but had to do something intricate or hard, working with my hands, I would do poorly. My intelligence, then, is not absolute but is a function of the society I live in and of the fact that a small subsection of that society has managed to foist itself on the rest as an arbiter of such matters.
Consider my auto-repair man, again. He had a habit of telling me jokes whenever he saw me. One time he raised his head from under the automobile hood to say: “Doc, a deaf-and-mute guy went into a hardware store to ask for some nails. He put two fingers together on the counter and made hammering motions with the other hand. The clerk brought him a hammer. He shook his head and pointed to the two fingers he was hammering. The clerk brought him nails. He picked out the sizes he wanted, and left. Well, doc, the next guy who came in was a blind man. He wanted scissors. How do you suppose he asked for them?”
Indulgently, I lifted my right hand and made scissoring motions with my first two fingers. Whereupon my auto-repair man laughed raucously and said, “Why, you dumb jerk, He used his voice and asked for them.” Then he said smugly, “I’ve been trying that on all my customers today.” “Did you catch many?” I asked. “Quite a few,” he said, “but I knew for sure I’d catch you.” “Why is that?” I asked. “Because you’re so goddamned educated, doc, I knew you couldn’t be very smart.
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Isaac Asimov (via skinnybaras)
“Because you’re so goddamned educated, doc, I knew you couldn’t be very smart.”
True of many people I work with, really.
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One thing about Isaac Asimov: he loved to write mysteries but he wasn’t very good at them. If you ever want to feel clever, read an Asimov mystery. You can outsmart a genius.
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I always tell people I may be “intelligent” but I’m not very smart at all.
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fucking mattresses how they do work
FIREFOX HAS ENCOUNTER A PROBLEM AND NEEDS TO CRASH.
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Donald Glover talking about the comments he received during his campaign to be the next Spider-Man (x)
“I was talking about it with Dan Eckman, who directed my Bonfire video. Can you imagine that trailer? That would be dope. Like it makes sense… a poor black kid in Queens. Like it just fits.”wow this just broke my heart a little bit
I love how Marvel’s answer was to just kill off Peter Parker in the Ultimates universe and make a black/latino kid Spider-Man instead. Like, you wanna play this shit? ok, we will play this shit. And he has the best best friend ever. EVER in the history of comics.
(Source: halemcjoel)
