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I hope you keep your job. When I consider the damage you do while employed, I'd hate to contemplate the devastation you could cause with lots of spare time.
-- Alan Kellogg, Pharyngula, comments
I’m one smart radical feminist cookie (or biscuit, as we say in Australia), and I’m just as stuck as any woman between the cock rock and the hard-on place.
-- keres, I Blame the Patriarchy, comments
My state leads in poverty, incarceration, mental illness, substance abuse and other addictions, teen pregnancy, anti-immigrant fervor, and religious conservatism. On the other hand, we maintain our low ranking in education, access to health care, and access to justice by our legislature's diligent tax-cutting. That's a balance few states attempt to match.
-- Ereshkigal, First Draft, comments
Rapists and murders always say she/he had it coming. Congratulations for swimming that gutter with them.
-- Moses, Pharyngula, comments
Previously, I’ve gotten stuck with other religious turkeys like 2003’s 13 Seconds and 2005’s Evil’s City. Neither of these two abysmal flicks advertised their religious intentions either and in both those cases I also can away feeling like the Holy Ghost had just relieved itself into my eye sockets.
-- Mike O’Risal, “Horror Flick Review: The Other Side is as Much Treacle as Gore,” Hyphoid Logic
[F]rom an early age, if you're a target you're taught that you bring it on yourself.
-- zubon, Shakesville, comments
Is effective and meaningful communication in your native language missing from your life? It doesn't have to be. The OED News is here, and even you might one day be literate enough to receive it. Did you know that Noah Webster gave his life (to teaching) that you should know "they're" from "their"? Did you know that the Chicago Manual of Style has helped millions of Americans find purpose for semi-colons?
Life doesn't have to be without a thesis, body of arguments, and conclusion.
A message of hope from www.evencreationistscanlearntospell.org.
--Brownian, OM, Pharyngula, comments
I'm sitting right now, not torturing anyone, and I feel no hardship over not being an asshole.
-- Ocelot, Shakesville, comments
Mmm. Syllogilicious. I coulda been a theologian...
-- Owlmirror, Pharyngula, comments
No deity that requires your protection is a deity worthy of worship.
-- Mike O'Risal, "Bill Donohue and the Crackertholic Crusade," Hyphoid Logic
It's not every day that one gets to see through a portal into a parallel universe where signing somebody up for gay porn-spam is as bad or worse than threatening to kill them. For that experience, I thank you.
-- Blake Stacey, Pharyngula, comments
Who wants a 3000 sq ft house on .08 of an acre? You can eat breakfast off your neighbor’s kitchen table.
-- Broce, Shakesville, comments
"Wait, if some people in the US are descended from Irish people, then why are there still Irish people?"
I laughed and laughed until I realised you'd just argued me out of existence.
-- DrFrank and GunofSod, Pharyngula, comments
A cyberpistol? That is about as likely to kill someone as cybersex is to getting me laid.
-- Doug, Pharyngula, comments, on Thomas Foley
Being intelligent is a curse when you're dealing with [mental illness]. Doctors write you off because you're so articulate, as if words and the ability to articulate better make any difference in your condition.
-- ginmar, A View From A Broad, comments
[In the Auschwitz Album], you never see a Nazi smiling and hamming it up for the camera in the same scene as a prisoner/corpse. That's what makes the Abu Gharaib pictures even more sickening.
-- Blue Buddha, Sadly, No!, comments
Kicking ass is not incompatible with pacifism, I don’t think.
-- ginmar, A View From A Broad, comments
Basically anytime there's a ZOMG Wimminz eat their young! type of story, it's time to put on your skeptical pants.
-- skirt, Shakesville, comments
I'm so sick and tired of watching people who should be fired, tarred, feathered, and run out of civilized society on a rail getting a pass, a promotion and a fucking raise.
-- Dorothy, Sadly, No!, comments
I was sitting on the bus in my usual imitation of men with swollen ball syndrome (I mean, like over 85% of the male population suffers from this, someone should look into it. It must be so painful for them to carry these obviously huge things around with them each day. I mean if your balls are so big and painful that you have to sit with your legs as far apart as physically possible on public transport then maybe you should consider getting them removed.)
-- lost clown, "Excuse me, maybe you should see a doctor," Angry for a Reason
He's on the air because this garbage is what the overgrown infants called "conservatives" want to hear--that white guys are deserving and everyone else is here on sufferance.
-- OtherCara, Shakesville, comments, on Michael “Savage” Weiner
to the average male [MMORPG] player I’ve spoken with, they feel more comfortable pretending to be a sentient humanoid cow or a magic-using zombie than a human woman.
-- Amanita, “From the Serious to the Very Silly,” Screaming Into the Void
[P]eople are compelled to revisit their own childhood traumas on children (worse and younger) because insisting that it’s a normal part of childhood lets them pretend that they don’t still hurt over it. ... [S]ome days it’s ridiculously hard to survive knowing how much you are hurt and enraged over, well, nearly everything. The price of refusing to feel for our own childhood selves is the inability to have compassion for other children and the compulsion to insist that traumas visited on children are normal, necessary and desirable.
-- Megan, I Blame the Patriarchy, comments
Can't take the chance that even a single rich American might face an expensive legal bill, but if a hundred thousand Iraqis have to die to prove that Iraq had indeed disarmed, well, the intelligence was faulty, wasn't it?
-- Reality Kid, Hullabaloo, comments
Friends of ours had a little girl that they would always complain couldn’t sleep through the night, and they or their doctor couldn’t figure out why. They came to visit once, and I noticed that the mother was putting the 4-year-old’s hair in rollers before she went to bed! I commented to the effect that maybe that was causing her to not sleep well.
Of course, since I don’t have children, it was as if I had said something like “I want to stick a knife in her heart.”
The rollers stayed. The kid didn’t sleep. What do I know??
-- Megan, I Blame the Patriarchy, comments
Empty vessels make the most noise.
-- Greek proverb, spotted on Pharyngula
Funny thing, it's kinda hard to cast a culture as immoral ignorant demonic satanists who hate America and want the Islamoatheists to ghey abortion the troops and then tell your kids, "that's what I want you to do when you grow up". Please choose: entertainment is a worthy endeavour - that conservatives should want to participate in or Hollywood is evil. Because doing both is not going to help your cause.
-- Dragon-King Wangchuck, Sadly, No!, comments
When exactly was it that the U.S. became a can’t-do society? It wasn’t at the very beginning when 13 ragamuffin colonies went to war against the world’s mightiest empire. It wasn’t during World War II when Japan and Nazi Germany had to be fought simultaneously. It wasn’t in the postwar period that gave us the Marshall Plan and a robust G.I. Bill and the interstate highway system and the space program and the civil rights movement and the women’s movement and the greatest society the world had ever known.
When was it?
Now we can’t even lift New Orleans off its knees.
-- Bob Herbert, “Yes, We Can,” The New York Times
Just once I'd like to ask one of these lower-our-taxes morons how they plan to put out the fire when their house burns down.
-- Sinfonian, “Wingnut Deconstruction,” Blast Off!
I have been wondering what I would say if I had a baby girl and somebody gave me a pair of the baby-heels. Probably something kind about how nice it was of them to think of me, then probably something about how inappropriate it was and what exactly were they thinking? And then, everyone would turn on me for being rude, la la la.
-- Sevanetta, I Blame the Patriarchy, comments
As the saying goes, I love the fucking Navy, and the Navy loves fucking me!
-- aleph1=c, Pharyngula, comments
Hint: if your ideology sucks so much raw ass that it gets perennially ignored or treated with total contempt by society at large, maybe it's time for you to switch to something better.
-- jim, Sadly, No!, comments
I almost wish I’d never taken ‘the red pill’, so to speak. Because becoming aware of what’s really going on around you is horrifying in the extreme. (”The Patrix has you….”)
-- Chai Latte, I Blame the Patriarchy, comments, on feminist awareness
That hat of his does a good job of covering the trap door in his forehead. You know, the one where the little wooden bird pops out.
-- Bitter Scribe, who is available to speak to your group, Sadly, No!, comments
Or consider Agenda, a restaurant devoted to the age-old practice of skewering meat. A sign hanging on its facade — “Agenda: The Shawarma” — sounds like a Tom Clancy book about some very, very dangerous pita.
-- Henry Alford, “Seizing the Day in Tel Aviv,” The New York Times
And if I have to read the phrases, "cherished" or "deeply held" beliefs one more time I'm going to projectile vomit. I don't even believe most of those who claim to have "cherished" or "deeply held" beliefs really cherish or hold them very deeply at all. I think these phrases are just code for [cue puppy dog eyes and sniffling] "Don't you dare force me to examine anything I profess to believe, and don't you dare hold my tribal allegiances and their consequences up to the light of public scrutiny. That makes me *uncomfortable*, and I'm going to shut you down by turning on the crocodile tears and blubbering about my "deeply held" beliefs."
-- Josh, Pharyngula, comments
Math classes, alas, deal in tedious symbol manipulation, excessive abstraction, and in doing everything possible to make the subject appear to the world as a conspiracy against the laity.
-- Jason Rosenhouse, “Is Modern Mathematics Reliable,” EvolutionBlog
"Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered," said Mr. Erskine; "I myself would say that it had merely been detected."
-- Oscar Wilde, The Portrait of Dorian Gray
My best friend's response to learning about menstruation was "OH GOD! And they haven't found a cure yet?" Looking back on it, I think that may be one of the most insightful things ever said about it.
-- esme454, A View From A Broad, comments
I had a backed-up drain in my garage, called a Ukrainian immigrant plumber, very sad-faced guy. ... He diagnosed a broken outflow pipe between the garage and the storm drain out in the street. “I snake it out for you now,” he said with a fatalistic expression, “but when the rainy season comes, there is no God.”
-- rootlesscosmo, I Blame the Patriarchy, comments
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