May 2012
24 posts
“Touch it, dude!”
– Barack Obama, instructing a 5-year-old to touch his hair. The child had asked “if my hair is just like yours.” (via officialssay)
“It is hard to keep 218 frogs in a wheelbarrow long enough to get a bill passed.”
– House Speaker John Boehner on the Republican caucus. (via officialssay)
“Either way, people and stegosaurs were living at the same time.”
– Minnesota congressional candidate Allen Quist, in his online curriculum supplement for K-12 educators, on “the only reasonable explanation” for stegosaurus carvings in ancient art. (via officialssay)
http://laughingsquid.com/linx-a-drinking-straw-cons... →
“I don’t know whether Barack Obama was born in the United States of America. But...”
– Rep. Mike Coffman (R-Colorado), speaking to supporters. Coffman later said he “misspoke.” (via officialssay)
Yeah, what a tongue-twister.
11 Obscure Regional Phrases We All Should Start...
nevver:
1. Stew the Dishrag 2. Feel Like a Stewed Witch 3. Vomiting One’s Toenails 4. On the Carpet 5. Sonofabitch Stew 6. Democrat Hound 7 & 8. That Dog Won’t Hunt / That Cock Won’t Fight 9. Buck Beer 10. (Not Enough Sense to) Pound Sand Down a Rathole 11. Whoopity Scoot [Definitions here]
April 2012
5 posts
March 2012
7 posts
“Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I’m not going to...”
– Charles Bukowski (via almcqueen)
Why Anti-Authoritarians are Diagnosed as Mentally... →
claytoncubitt:
“Gaining acceptance into graduate school or medical school and achieving a PhD or MD and becoming a psychologist or psychiatrist means jumping through many hoops, all of which require much behavioral and attentional compliance to authorities, even to those authorities that one lacks respect for. The selection and socialization of mental health professionals tends to breed out many...
February 2012
29 posts
