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The people who want English to be the official language of the United States are uncomfortable with their leaders being fluent in it.

What frightens me most is that Palin got up and lied and said nothing of substance, and people are so distracted by the fact that she has breasts that the lies were allowed to slide by. This is how the Democrats can self-destruct, once again.

Bishops can move diagonally, but if they touch a pawn, the pawn’s not allowed to tell. But suddenly the pawn doesn’t do as well in school.

I will shoot you with my anti-banter gun.

Here, this is the complete curriculum for the intelligent design part of the syllabus:

A magic man done it.

There, finished! There are no experiments that need to be summarized, no details that need to be explored, no complicated mechanisms that need to be explicated. Parents can exhaustively cover the subject in a moment or two some evening, or perhaps Mom could could scribble it down on a note in her child’s lunch. If they’re ambitious, they could send them off to a Sunday School, which might be taxed by the sudden increase in difficulty over the usual pap they dispense, but they’ll cope, perhaps by dumbing it down a little more.

A skeptic is one who prefers beliefs and conclusions that are reliable and valid to ones that are comforting or convenient, and therefore rigorously and openly applies the methods of science and reason to all empirical claims, especially their own. A skeptic provisionally proportions acceptance of any claim to valid logic and a fair and thorough assessment of available evidence, and studies the pitfalls of human reason and the mechanisms of deception so as to avoid being deceived by others or themselves. Skepticism values method over any particular conclusion.

“We shouldn’t be laughing.”

“Well, crying doesn’t do me any good.”

Harriet, Matt (Sarah Paulson & Matthew Perry), Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, S01E19, “K & R, part 1”

Her speech tonight made it very clear. She is not done. She doesn’t care about the party. She will fight, she will fling shit, she will do everything in her power to get that nomination, even if it destroys Barack Obama, even if it destroys the Democratic Party, even if it destroys herself.

Don’t accept current theories as absolute fact. If everyone else is looking down, look up, or in a different direction. You may be surprised at what you will find.

“Four years ago, we couldn’t even make jokes like this without being labeled unamerican.”

“Tell me about it!”