no. 546

"Jesus H. Christ and his All-girl Orchestra!"

An oath I read on Twitter.

no. 545

“I would much rather be excluded for whom I include than included for whom I exclude.”

Unknown

no. 544

"At some point, we have to start presuming that when Republicans do things with foreseeable bad consequences, it's because they want those consequences, not because they want something else."

NCSteve on Twitter

no. 543

"No, if you claimed to be embarrassed by Barack Obama but you're somehow not embarrassed by Donald Trump—I'm going to strongly suggest it was largely a pigmentation issue."

John Pavlovitz

no. 542

"Hillary Clinton wouldn't have been capable of the malice and malpractice Trump is capable of, simply because she's a rational, level-headed, intelligent, articulate, compassionate human being—and he is none of those things.”

John Pavlovitz

no. 541

"Libertarians are born on third base and spend their entire lives trying to make people believe they hit a triple."

-Lip Gallagher

no. 540

"When the elderly, sick, and vulnerable are left without resources by this Administration, it will be the Progressives, Muslims, Jews, Humanists, and Atheists—not the Conservative Christians who will care for them as Jesus would have."

John Pavlovitz

no. 539

"Conservatives really truly thought if their butter-mold of a hate golem won, all the non white straight cis christian male people would just go back into the boxes of shame and invisibility the right had prepared for them.

They think it’s so disrespectful that none of them have."

Julius Goat on Twitter, discussing Respect.

I put this here because "butter-mold of a hate golem" is now my favorite description of Trump.

no. 538

"This exhaustion is a national epidemic.

This fatigue has become commonplace here now.

In this Presidency, America is living dog years.

We're all aging unnaturally rapidly, friends."


John Pavlovitz on Twitter.

no. 537

"If you can’t be a good example, you’ll just have to be a horrible warning."

Gwen Goodnight

no. 536

"I had a long talk with a friend tonight, and he pointed out that the law is a fine thing, even when it’s wrong. It’s the only defense we have against anarchy, against the strong overwhelming the weak. And if it’s wrong, well, then it’s our job to change it."

Grady, in Jennifer Crusie's novel "Charlie All Night"

no. 535

“When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment feels like discrimination” 

Thomas Sowell

no. 534

Cosmo Kramer: Just tell him you don't want to do the bootleg. I'm sure he'll understand. 
Jerry: People with guns don't understand. That's why they get guns. Too many misunderstandings.

no. 533

“Looking at cleavage is like looking at the sun. You don't stare at it. It's too risky. Ya get a sense of it and then you look away.”

Jerry Seinfeld

no. 532

”You have to be odd to be number one”

Dr. Suess 

no. 531

"The glory of justice and the majesty of the law are created not just by the Constitution - nor by the courts - nor by the officers of the law - nor by the lawyers - but by the men and women who constitute our society-who are protectors of the law as they are themselves protected by the law." 

Robert Kennedy

no. 530

"There's something very human about taking something so great and ruining it a little, so you can have more of it."

Michael, talking about frozen yogurt, in S1E6 of "The Good Place"

no. 529

"Once again, none of these philosophers is ever talking about masturbation"

Chidi tutoring Eleanor in S1E4 of "The Good Place"

no. 528

“I’m not going to censor myself to comfort your ignorance.”

Jon Stewart

no. 527

“I always feel uncomfortable when people speak about ordinary mortals because I've never met an ordinary man, woman or child.”

― Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth