— Clay Johnson on a healthier “Information Diet” (via newshour)
If Jefferson’s greatest political legacy was the Declaration of Independence, this pure, precious moral teaching was his religious legacy. “I am a real Christian,” Jefferson insisted against the fundamentalists and clerics of his time. “That is to say, a disciple of the doctrines of Jesus.”
What were those doctrines? Not the supernatural claims that, fused with politics and power, gave successive generations wars, inquisitions, pogroms, reformations, and counterreformations. Jesus’ doctrines were the practical commandments, the truly radical ideas that immediately leap out in the simple stories he told and which he exemplified in everything he did. Not simply love one another, but love your enemy and forgive those who harm you; give up all material wealth; love the ineffable Being behind all things, and know that this Being is actually your truest Father, in whose image you were made. Above all: give up power over others, because power, if it is to be effective, ultimately requires the threat of violence, and violence is incompatible with the total acceptance and love of all other human beings that is at the sacred heart of Jesus’ teaching. That’s why, in his final apolitical act, Jesus never defended his innocence at trial, never resisted his crucifixion, and even turned to those nailing his hands to the wood on the cross and forgave them, and loved them.
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(via americastoppushing)
(Source: hana-no-hikari, via absurdlakefront)
Lucille Bluth quoting Mitt Romney is pretty delightful
(Source: lucilleandmitt)
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Leslie Knope (Amy Poehler) to Ben Wyatt (Adam Scott), Parks & Recreation S4E17
There is nothing that could make this moment of eating Graeter’s while enjoying Parks & Recreation any better (except of course Ben Wyatt snuggled up next to me). This show is just SO GOOD
— Dominionism Is Destroying America (via apoplecticskeptic)
(via apsies)
— President Barack Obama (via ithedivine)
(via doyoulikemymask)
Look who they are giving us now. What do they think, we’re stupid?” Scott Kanas, who works at a Chrysler truck plant in Michigan, said, talking about Mitt Romney.
“Now he’s Michigan’s son, before he told us to kiss his ass. He has no loyalty. His loyalty is to the almighty buck.
"— WARREN, Mich. | If you want a sense of the challenges Mitt Romney and the GOP have in Michigan, you could learn a lot from standing on the corner of Mound and East 9 Mile roads in suburban Detroit, Dante Chinni reports. (via newshour)
(via newshour)
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Dalia, Suburgatory S1E15
She is THE BEST
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John Oliver on Rick Santorum, The Bugle 183 (via sixpencesoulcake)
Can this please be the new “glitter-bomb”?
(via thegreg)
— Ann Powers via Whitney Houston: Her Life Played Out Like An Opera (via nprmusic)
— Casey Klein (Lizzy Caplan), Party Down S2.E2
— Rachel Maddow (via brooklynmutt)
(Source: brooklynmutt)
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Jonathan Coulton is wise.
http://www.jonathancoulton.com/2012/01/21/megaupload/
(via neil-gaiman)
— Alexis Ohanian, Founder of Reddit
Oh hai! i'm brandon. these are the descriptions, ramblings, musings, and clippings from a left-handed half-italian/half-polish environmentally-conscious cat-loving ice cream-obsessed antique book-collecting impassioned queer traveler [who has the misfortune of being from the detroit-area, and maybe even more unfortunately currently lives in Connecticut] whose soul is regenerated by the powers of beauty found in music and mountains. I hope that you will find yourself wanting to comment, follow and/or stalk. this is a rather eclectic collection of things i find interesting usually best served with a comfy cushion and some delicious tea.
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