“In other words, he inflated complication rates by a factor of ten and then continued repeating erroneous data.”
“‘Pro-life’ has, in this schema, totally taken leave of the plethora of other life issues with which it has to cohere, if it’s to be any kind of meaningful ethical approach to anything at all.”
“White men politely asked for identification, black men held at gun point and six police cars arrive on the scene within a minute or two.”
“I’d come and take that voter card right out of their hand and rip it up in front of their face.”
“One can imagine exactly the same strategy being deployed in, say, 1858 regarding slavery or in 1958 regarding segregation.”
“There were 500 fewer overall murders in 2013 than there were in 1969, despite the fact that the population increased by 115 million people.”
“Some inappropriate results are surfacing in Google Maps that should not be, and we apologize for any offense this may have caused.”
“The New York Times reported that neither White House officials nor a Twitter spokesman could provide the exact number of racist tweets that made their way to the commander-in-chief.”
“The government is making a profit on my period.”
“Complementarity just isn’t very satisfying. It’s the Taco Bell of theology.”
“Speaking to 1,500 students at Wellesley College in 1921, Mrs. Augustus Trowbridge — the wife of a Princeton professor — railed against ‘the vulgarity and revolting badness of petting parties.’ She said that the loose-moraled gatherings — along with jazz music, unchaperoned dancing and lipstick — were symptomatic of a decadent society.”
“No matter how Wells Fargo treated poor and minority customers, Focus on the Family, Samaritan’s Purse, and Franklin Graham said nothing. Yet, when Wells Fargo runs a one minute ad featuring a lesbian couple, THEN Focus on the Family, Samaritan’s Purse, and Franklin Graham decided to say something.”
“Pastor caught having gay sex in van spent stolen church money on farmer dating website”
“Rubio’s statement is simply a confused muddle of fear-mongering and constitutional misconception.”
“Religious liberty is a two-way street. When I defend the right of our chaplains to be evangelical I must at the same time defend the right of those so disposed to be just as liberal as they choose to be.”
“What’s frustrating about these social conservative reactions to Jenner isn’t that people care so much about traditional morality. It’s that they think it’s useful to dismissively rant against an experience that’s so often been marginalized and attacked — and that isn’t their own.”
“I have another bad memory from the 1960s that I hope will not return in real life: the polarization of public opinion into hostile camps carrying the banners of ‘justice’ and ‘law and order.‘”
“Ultimately, I didn’t arrive at the end of this project with an optimistic sense that we are all going to start getting along anytime soon.”
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