“You do not need the Bible to justify love, but no better tool has been invented to justify hate.”

- Richard A Weatherwax

“Liberals want to nurture...

“Liberals want to nurture the brotherhood of man while Conservatives deem this mythical brotherhood just another left-wing conspiracy trying to separate them from their money. Conservatives are sincerely of the opinion that they stole all their stuff fair and square, while Liberals think people with too much stuff should give some of their stuff to people who don’t have any stuff. The problem is nobody considers their collection of stuff to be too much. Liberals want to reform prisoners. Conservatives don’t believe in taking any. Liberals would rather lose honorably than be accused of acting unfairly. As a matter of fact, Liberals are more comfortable losing than they are winning. Conservatives will do whatever it takes to win, including painting their kids’ teachers as the enemy. Not only are they bad losers, they’re bad winners as well.”

- Will Durst (via azspot)

“The word god is...

“The word god is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honourable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. No interpretation no matter how subtle can (for me) change this.”

- Albert Einstein (via divineirony)

“The average life span of a...

“The average life span of a transgendered person is twenty-three years. The statistic is shocking, until it begins to make sense. Gender non-conformists face routine exclusion and violence. Transgendered people are disproportionately poor, homeless, and incarcerated. Many of the systems and facilities intended to help low-income people are sex-segregated and thereby alienate those who don’t comply with state-imposed categories. A trans woman may not be able to secure a bed in a homeless shelter, for example. Spade writes that just as the feminist movement tended to “focus on gender-universalized white women’s experience as ‘women’s experience,’” the lesbian- and gay-rights movement has focused primarily on a white, middle-class politic, centered on marriage and mainstream social mores.”

Dean Spade is the first openly trans law professor. Meaghan Winter interviews him for Granta.

“100 guys got together...

“100 guys got together and ordered a pizza cut into 100 slices. The first guy took 80 slices. When someone then suggested he only take 79 slices, the first guy yelled, ‘That’s socialism!’

- Bill Maher, “Real Time with Bill Maher” on making the income gap understandable to even the Tea Baggers.

“This is an impressive crowd: the Have’s and Have-more’s. Some people call you the elites. I call you my base.”

- George Bush, at a fundraiser

“Why is NPR biased...

“Why is NPR biased to the left? Because it simply doesn’t accept as truth the numerous conspiracy theories that modern conservatives believe in. NPR doesn’t show support for discrimination against gay people and muslims. NPR is factual in saying that death panels don’t exist. NPR is right to dismiss the conspiracy theories regarding climate change. NPR doesn’t agree that Obama is not a US citizen. Being factual has now become liberal because mainstream conservatives have moved into a paranoid reality where facts don’t apply in the face of conspiracy theories.”

- Ziyu Ziyu