as fascism rises in this country and institutional stability wanes, itâs important for Congress to spend an entire day being racist toward one lady
my take on "from the river to the sea" is that if you can look at 10,000 dead civilians, 4,000 of which are children, bombed or crushed or vaporized or starved or who knows what else, and think, "i want to go online and argue about a slogan," you're not a morally serious person
One of my all-time favorite scenes is when John Goodman brains Tim Blake Nelsonâs character with a tree branch in O Brother, Where Art Thou? and George Clooney just nonchalantly looks up at Goodman and goes âWhatâs going on, Big Dan?â
just thinking about john goodman makes me smile. hes there in my minds eye making a french press coffee in a pristine kitchen. he notices me and waves. i wave back
we fixed acid rain! we fixed the ozone layer! we beat polio! weâve rescued scores of species from the brink of extinction! the despair many of us feel about climate change isnât that itâs too big to fix. itâs that we know it is fixable but weâre being thwarted by greedy ghouls at every turn.
fuck to the texas rangers
when wikipedia launched, the idea that an encyclopedia could be reliably maintained by the public was a joke. now, it's a marvel, a remarkable resource, virtually the only website that remotely delivers on its potential and practically the last pleasant browsing experience on the internet.