Frothy Paradise

Jul 03

“And true, sometimes it seems that anger alone keeps me alive; it burns with a bright and undiminished flame. Yet anger, like guilt, is an incomplete form of human knowledge. More useful than hatred, but still limited. Anger is useful to help clarify our differences, but in the long run, strength that is bred by anger alone is a blind force which cannot create the future. It can only demolish the past. Such strength does not focus on what lies ahead, but upon what lies behind, upon what created it – hatred. And hatred is a deathwish for the hated, not a lifewish for anything else.” — Audre Lorde, Eye to Eye: Black Women, Hatred, and Anger

“Not a happy ending, but what a match! What a show! I am very proud of the boys. We will welcome them as the true heroes they are,” the former First Lady said in post match comments. Mrs. Rawlings said though the loss was a painful one for the millions of fans across the globe the Stars can walk with their shoulders high because they made history by the quality of football they exhibited throughout the tournament and the sense of perseverance, patriotism and dedication to duty they applied to the game.” —

Ghana News :: Nana Konadu Ageyman Rawlings hails Black Stars as true heroes

(Notice that she tactfully refrained from mentioning that Uruguay are cheaters.)

Jun 30

danielextra:

PART A: Science

1. A strain of bacteria, after repeated exposure to an antibiotic, develops a resistance to that antibiotic. This is an example of:
A. microevolution
B. microintelligentdesign
C. how the liberal media lies
D. why faith healing is better than secular medicine

2. Global temperatures have risen 1 degree F since 2004. This is due to:
A. the greenhouse effect
B. unsound science
C. the Clinton administration
D. gays

3. Scientific theories are:
A. ones which make predictions one can test against experimental data
B. only theories
C. used by out-of-the-mainstream liberal eggheads to oppress white people
D. tricks of Satan

PART B: Mathematics

1. Pi is:
A. the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter
B. three
C. I refuse to answer this question on the grounds that my dad makes a lot of money
D. something Greek homosexuals invented to turn you gay

2. If dinosaurs first appeared 250 million years ago, and became extinct 185 million years later, how long ago did they become extinct?
A. 65 million years ago
B. There is no paleontological consensus that dinosaurs ever existed
C. 3500 years ago, during the Flood
D. However long ago it was that they turned gay and lost their moral values

3. If you make $50,000 a year, and the flat income tax rate is 10%, how much money do you pay the IRS each year?
A. $5,000
B. Too much.
C. $0. The federal government has no Constitutional right to inconvenience me.
D. The IRS is part of the gay mafia.

PART C: History

1. The US lost the Vietnam War because:
A. we miscalculated the determination of the enemy.
B. liberals and the media wouldn’t let Rambo do his job.
C. IT WAS A TIE!
D. Clinton made everyone in the Army get gay married.

2. Who led the American army during the Revolutionary War?
A. George Washington
B. George W. Bush
C. Ronald Reagan
D. Jesus

3. Who betrayed the American army during the Revolutionary War?
A. Benedict Arnold
B. Bill Clinton
C. Hillary Clinton
D. The Jews

PART D: Literature

1. What is the greatest book ever written by an American?
A. The Great Gatsby
B. A Charge to Keep
C. Left Behind 2: Tribulation Force
D. The Bible

2. In Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, Caesar is betrayed by:
A. Brutus
B. Clinton
C. the liberal media
D. the Jews

3. In 1609, Galileo looked through a telescope and saw four small bodies orbiting Jupiter. This showed:
A. that not all celestial bodies orbit the Earth, and that the Earth is not necessarily at the center of the Universe
B. there is no astronomical consensus that anything orbits Jupiter
C. Galileo was a biased liberal
D. the telescope was gay

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Scoring is at the discretion of your local school board.

[via:mypantsareonfire]

Jun 29

“It always seems the stars that burn the brightest are the ones to flame out the fastest. So it was as unsurprising as it was sad when the news broke early Tuesday that Chatroulette’s cultural relevance had expired overnight. Cause of death: penises.” —

R.I.P. Chatroulette, 2009-2010

- Salon

“The changes we want to see won’t happen in 18 months, or in two years, or four, or probably even eight. Indeed, the entire Obama era, if it lasts eight years, is best thought of not as a culmination, or a self-contained time frame that should be judged a failure if X, Y, and Z don’t happen. It’s the start of a process that may take 16 years, or 24; that may be along the way interrupted or undone; that will be fought tooth and nail, as we’ve plainly seen these recent months, by others whose idea of America is incomprehensible to us but who are citizens too, with the same rights we have. They (and by the way: no despair on their side! There is rage, to be sure, but judging from the Tea Party events I’ve been to and watched, it is a joyful rage) and the corporate interests and the elected representatives on their side have a lot of power. Liberal despair only reinforces their power and helps to ensure that whatever gains are made during the Obama term could quickly be rolled back. And if that happens, we are back, ten years from now, to fighting the usual rearguard battles. With this in mind, some perspective is in order.” —

Michael Tomasky for Democracy: A Journal of Ideas

Excellent essay by Michael Tomasky, well worth reading despite its length.

Idaho GOP: Can We Secede? -

If you liked the Texas GOP’s platform, you’ll love the Idaho GOP’s. Planks: Idaho should withhold taxes from the federal government, take away people’s right to vote for senators and nullify all federal laws Idahoans don’t like. Oh, and marriage should not only be limited to a union between a man and a woman, but also to a union between a “naturally born man” and “naturally born woman.”

I would be content to say that the GOP is simply losing its collective marbles, but honestly, this shit is starting to scare me.

“Justice Marshall, former Solicitor General of the United States, the man who successfully argued Brown v. Board of Education, and the first African American to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court, was a giant of 20th century jurisprudence and an American hero. In person, his presence was formidable. At oral argument, I once saw him reduce the Attorney General of Missouri to a puddle on the courtroom floor — with just two words. The Attorney General had asserted some conclusion about his case, and Marshall asked the man for facts to back up his assertion. The Attorney General said, “I don’t have that information.” Marshall paused, leaned forward, and thundered, “Why not?” Good God, it terrified me, and I was sitting in the back of the visitors’ gallery.” — Lying for a Living

wreckandsalvage:

Vuvuzelas for BP — Kickstarter

BP is not feeling the pain they are causing in the Gulf. In order to put a bit of public pressure on them, we plan to buy 100 vuvuzelas and hire 100 vuvuzela players off Craigslist to play in front of BP’s International Headquarters in London for an entire work day.

Please reblog, especially those with UK friends!

Jun 28

“Turn on the television. We have a wedding channel on cable TV devoted to the behavior of people on the way to the altar. They spend billions of dollars, behave in the most appalling way, all in an effort to be princess for a day. You don’t have cable television? Put on network TV. We’re giving away husbands on a game show. You can watch The Bachelor, where thirty desperate women will compete to marry a 40-year-old man who has never been able to maintain a decent relationship in his life. That’s what we’ve done to marriage in America, where young women are socialized from the time they’re five years old to think of being nothing but a bride. They plan every day what they’ll wear, how they’ll look, the invitations, the whole bit, they don’t spend five minutes thinking about what it means to be a wife. People stand up there before god and man even in Senator Diaz’s church, they swear to love honor and obey, they don’t mean a word of it. So if there’s anything wrong with the sanctity of marriage in America, it comes from those of us who have the privilege and the right and have abused it for decades.” — Diane Savino, NY State Senator (via gayformarriage) (via ruthannsimages) (via mutatio) (via waifsworld)

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