October 2011
147 posts
September 2011
95 posts
“It has come to our attention that recent twitter feeds are reporting false information concerning current conditions at the U.S. Capitol. Conditions at the U.S. Capitol are currently normal.”
—U.S. Capitol Police spokeswoman Sgt. Kimberly Schneider, unamused by the Twitter postings from The Onion, a satirical news site, which claimed that members of Congress had armed themselves with semi-automatic weapons, taken a group of schoolchildren hostage inside the Capitol building, and demanded $12 trillion in ransom.
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“As much as we like to imagine that the wholesome heart-land and our salt-of-the-Earth citizens are inherently good, the reality is that a frighteningly large chunk of our country are disgusting, theocratic bigots who don’t care if other people die so long as they don’t have to deal with their sheltered lives changing.
We’re not going anywhere until we recognize that fact, and realize that we can tolerate and allow the bigots to have their opinions without also having to respect and treat those ideas with politically deference.” —
We’re not going anywhere until we recognize that fact, and realize that we can tolerate and allow the bigots to have their opinions without also having to respect and treat those ideas with politically deference.” —
I just heard “via” used as a noun. Interesting.
