shit, i honestly think obama is just a very reasonable republican, tbh.

Too many people underestimate just how conservative rural areas of some states are, both the young and old folks.

Nah. I can live without the Libertarians.

There is an argument to be made that even if life begins at conception, it isnt necessarily wrong to end that life. All credit to Peter Singer.

I'm not sure I buy that. For starters, Republicans are also opposed to better contraceptive availability, which does more to prevent abortions than shutting down women's clinics. If abortion is really murder, then giving people IUDs or Depo-Provera is infinitely preferable. If you make up some bullshit claim that…

I honestly believe that it's more about controlling women than saving children. If they gave a shit about saving children, they might not be working so hard to cut programs that help the ones that are already living.

The trouble is...they whine about how we should respect those beliefs, because they're deeply held religious values. But they completely fail to comprehend that whatever they happen to think about a fetus, a lot of people have pretty strongly held beliefs of the opposite.

This should be cut and dried for anyone out there: The GOP is very serious about it's "religious" convictions. Unless it gets in the way of power or money. Then they'll do a 180 on whatever asinine thing they pretended was just SO fucking important to their "strongly held, dyed-in-the-wool Christian ideals", right?…

Who would have thought we'd get to a point where Republicans were ok with same sex marriage but still suppressing women's reproductive choices?

Oh, your brother wins the Interwebz for the day! I'm actually kind of shocked that my brother didn't do the same thing...

Any excuse to post the always-welcome (in my book) young Howard Dean

I'm surprised that anyone would even consider this surprising. He's handsome at 71. When that happens, it's generally not a mysterious superpower someone developed later in life.

Q: Why did the skinheads accept him?

Haha. I know, me too. It's like when you suddenly develop an insane crush on some goofball that's been in the friend zone forever...now it's just gonna be awkward.

OMG HERE IS MY BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS TATTOO LETS BE BESTIES

There is a guy in the bike community I'm a part of who has huge, huge black bars on every appendage. He's a bit racist sometimes but he does take constructive criticism on that and he doesn't start any fights. We think he must have had some similar experiences.

He looks like a young Brando:

Not gonna lie...a young Joe Biden?

Guy I work with has a swastika tattooed over his left pec. 8" across. He has "88" on his right pec. He did seven years in the state pen in CA for stealing a car, plus running from the cops, plus the after party when he fought the cops when they finally got him stopped. This was about 15 years ago. The thing is…

I got 'all things will pass' on my back and the phrase means so much to me that I then got it as a chest piece, no regrets < I also have that on my wrist.