A pleasure pen, meant for them

A pleasure pen, meant for them April 12, 2012

“Take me out to the ball game, take me out with the crowd …

“He wants a carton of Merits and some Jiffy Pop, and he doesn’t want to have to put his shirt on to get them. You know why? Because this is America.”

“For all the talk about McCarthyism in politics, we don’t usually come across literal examples.”

What’s going on here is lying. It’s lying about fellow human beings. And it’s lying to oneself.”

There is no need to apologize for who you are or for voicing an opinion on something you have a problem with.”

“We are described and detailed, our faces and bodies analyzed and picked apart, our worth ascertained and ascribed based on the reduction of personhood to simple physical objectification.”

“He told the audience that the United States has the best health care system in the world, before he was literally laughed at by several attendees.”

“For every federal income-tax dollar you pay, 0.59 cents goes to welfare.” (Not 59 cents, but about 3/5 of one penny.)

Reality Check on Who Pays Taxes

“The main trouble with reading Revelation as people of wealth, status and privilege is that we don’t have much of a problem with Babylon. We’re doing quite well in Babylon, thank you very much.”

This post contains photos of a 141 year old body that’s been dead over 88 years.”

A poem from us


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