Liberty

“I value political liberty and political rights (freedom of thought, speech, conscience, and the press, the right to vote, civil equality) more highly than economic liberty and economic rights (property rights, freedom of enterprise, freedom from want, economic equality). I’m in favor of progressive taxation and generous public provision of education, pensions, and health care. I think people should have enough to eat and a roof over their heads, even if they haven’t done much to deserve it. I reject the idea that the market is the singular bedrock of society while everything else is a parasitical growth. I want government to do something about environmental degradation and gross social and economic inequality. I’m a secularist and a supporter of equal rights for women and gays. And when it comes to wanting World Peace, I’m practically a Miss America contestant. So I’m a liberal.”

- Hendrik Hertzberg

The Tea Party

“The Tea Partiers belong to a different tradition—a tradition of divisive fundamentalism. Like other fundamentalists, they seek refuge from the complexity and confusion of modern life in the comforting embrace of an authoritarian scripture [the Constitution] and the imagined past it supposedly represents. Like other fundamentalists, they see in their good book only what they want to see: confirmation of their preexisting beliefs. Like other fundamentalists, they don’t sweat the details, and they ignore all ambiguities. And like other fundamentalists, they make enemies or evildoers of those who disagree with their doctrine….We are moral, you are not; we represent America, you do not. Theirs is the rallying cry of culture war.”

Andrew Romano, Newsweek

Dancing hands pa pamericano (baile de manos)

Bash.org

Жалоба на форуме одной мморпг:

Не пускает в игру! Я захожу в игру ввожу логин и пароль! Появляется какое то соглашение! Я его усердно читаю и понимаю, что оно не выгодное! Нажимаю не согласиться конечно, но после этого окошко с игрой закрывается! Помогите! Как поиграть в эту игру?

David Coates

“If conservatives think that poverty and social injustice can be solved without government help, and that economic recovery requires only tax cuts and welfare reform, we should invite them to try it on a personal basis. We should invite them to settle in a run-down part of some northern city, deny themselves education, good social contacts and subsidized housing, take on the care of two or three small children and face a job market of unskilled low-paid work. Then we should invite them to go live the American Dream; and if they find that they cannot, then we should also invite them to admit that what they cannot do, others cannot be expected to do either. We should invite them to recognize that circumstances make people as well as people make circumstances, and that if we want people to prosper we must act on their circumstances also. The flourishing of individual rights, so important to American conservatives, requires equal starting points.”

- Answering Back: Liberal Responses to Conservative Arguments by David Coates

Creature Combat IV: Slaughter House

Bo Burnham’s Religion Rant