Government works for the people or it works for business and industry. It can’t serve both. It can only serve one and regulate the other. I’d prefer government to serve my needs and to regulate industry rather than the other way around.

I found this in the comments section of an article on the Tea Party movement.

I am a conservative. I believe in:
Conserving the environment
Conserving a woman’s right to choose
Conserving the quality of life for the middle class
Conserving the rights of all people to live the life they choose with whom they choose in the way they choose
Conserving your right to believe in God and my right to deny god
Conserving my right to pursue a long and healthy life
Conserving the infrastructure that made this nation great.
I believe in paying my taxes, all of them.
I do not believe in loopholes, corporations having the rights of individual humans, congress having more access to health care than the poorest of the poor
Because I am a conservative.
Tea Party “conservatism” is not conservative; it is reactionary and racist.

[When faced with criticism that one's art is pornographic,] no one ever defends pornography. They argue that their art is not pornography without questioning the assertion that pornography is intrinsically bad.

It’s a good thing there isn’t a commandment in the Decalogue that simply says “Don’t Be an Asshole,” because a lot of American Christians would be in trouble right about now. And before you waste time sending me an email to say “I’m a Christian and we’re not all like that,” first write an email to a Christian you know who is like that.

The God of Abraham is one of the most twisted, hate filled, evil literary characters ever. He kills babies, promotes incest, rape, genocide and slavery, wipes out families to test individuals, demands sacrifices, needs constant praise, and periodically destroys the bulk of humanity. Yet we’re always told how loving and fatherly he is…

Honestly, is there anything more amusing than watching the GOP Noise Machine lecture people about accuracy and treating people fairly?

“I consider President Obama to be in the situation of having inherited a burning apartment building. He proceeded to gather all the available fire trucks and douse the fires in half the floors. Yet his critics complain that the other floors are still on fire. Even worse, those critics are the ones who started the fire. And they want to withdraw the fire trucks.” — economist Larry Mishell

Yeah, the trauma of 9/11 made some on the left go a little nuts. It also made a lot of folks on the right go nuts in different ways, and eight years later we’re still stuck in two wars as a result. But the whole Obama “birther” thing is a different kettle of fish insofar as the only “trauma” these people seem to have suffered is living to see the day a black man got elected President.

The US government defunds ACORN, but not Blackwater. I guess that’s what ACORN gets for helping brown people instead of killing them.

You’re paying for part of Congressman Joe Wilson’s health insurance.