Let’s face it, there’s a lot left to do. Climate change, the economy, immigration reform, two wars we shouldn’t be fighting – you know the drill. And let’s face another fact: as long as the GOP and conservatives have any political power, nothing will get done. They will block any reforms and enact laws that drag us back to the Jim Crow past they love so well. We are effectively ruled by sociopaths.

Conservatives exist to question, and undo, any sort of progress.  Abortion finally legal?  Not so fast, lefty. Segregation ended?  Not according to Rand Paul and other bigots. Evolution and climate change proved real? Not according to the GOP. And the gold standard, attacking  immigrants, immediately using their new House majority to target women, children, gays, and unions, and on and on.

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Who said what?  No peeking until you finish:

1) “The Pepperoni Prophet wears pepperoni for underwear. He knows what he’s doing.”

2) “The run I was on made Sinatra, Flynn, Jagger, Richards look like droopy-eyed, armless children.”

3) “The pizza is so good, it makes you put on your clothes like a fish!”

4) “L.A. County is like a huge tortilla.  It spreads everywhere.”

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Leave it to John Eliot Gardiner and a bunch of Brits to nail this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q37jWFm3FV8

Missing Christmas for some reason …. Note the perfect combination of a Bach-sized orchestra with a not-so-big SATB chorus, and one harpsichord. Amazing.

More shit that needs to go:

1) the Geico gekko – would somebody squash this little fucker already? Most aggravating ad campaign since the Energizer Bunny.

2) Ben Stein selling shit on TV – why does anyone pay this evolution-denying shitbag to sell anything?  Fuck him.

3) Steven Tyler – dude, you are 62 years old, yet you look like a Real Housewife of New Jersey. Retire, and stop spending your money on plastic surgery and hair extensions.

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I seriously think this guy has W-like fetal alcohol syndrome. And if it’s a fireside chat, shouldn’t there be a fire?

Harlan Ellison (NSFW):

Just a few things that need go away in my humble (and often correct) opinion:

1) “back in the day …” – when?  The 60s?  The 70s?  June 22, 1874?  No – say “I remember when …” Say “when I was in my teens …” Don’t be a douchebag.

2) “robust” – it’s so Condoleezza Rice. People who use “robust” in a sentence also use “proactive” all the time. Fuck ’em.

3) “it is what it is …”. – No, often it isn’t.  String theory, whatever. It sometimes is not what it is, not as it appears.  What a stupid fucking observation. Don’t do it – makes you sound like David Fucking Brookes.

4) “take a step back” – use “reconsider” unless you like to be kicked in the ‘nads.

5) “circle back” – makes you sound like you’re in a bad Western.

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