Ikr? 75%? I’d peg it much higher than that (assuming he meant “was wasteful”)

From a comment by Joel Johnson on the gawker joins union post:

And here I was impressed with the 16 inch one I grew this year. However, that was just one of about 100 cucumbers so I can’t complain too much. We have pickles for like the next 6 months.

That’s a long cucumber no matter how you slice it.

That wonderful piece is actually one that’s been doing the rounds since May 2000 (it was even quoted on The West Wing!), and was written by a guy named Kent Ashcraft. It’s the perfect response to so much garbage that some religious conservatives spew, isn’t it?

I think a lot of adult conversations are the same ones we had as fourth-graders, just longer and more nuanced.

Can you imagine the nuclear-level shitfit some conservatives would have if a liberal clerk refused to issue someone a gun licence because they didn’t like firearms? They’d be furious, and you know, rightly so. People have a right to expect public officials to follow the law, even if they don’t agree with it. If you…

I was wondering “is there any way this story could get more awesome?” Then you replied. Magnificent!

It’s even more impressive when you realize he was a Jew parading around a Catholic Boston neighborhood in that get up.

Do they mean “Kenyan” as in “Swahili”? Because according to good old (FUCKING FREE, EASY TO FIND) Google Translate, black power = nguvu nyeusi.

Can I just say here how much I love Snopes, and that the dumb shit people believe astonishes me?

I haven’t seen this one, but the favorite comment I saw on Facebook included this line:

The hipster coffee shop here has this. I’m like, thanks, but i just ate a spinach feta croissant and I need to check my teeth.

Best. Dad. Ever.

I’m a feminist who is constantly talking about the patriarchy and sexist ideas of acceptable femininity. . . but this would piss me right off.

So to empower women, they quote to them from a book that treats them like chattel?

BOWEL MOVEMENT.

telepottying?

When he was a teenager, my dad got in trouble for impersonating a bishop. He found the outfit at a thrift store and was all, “no way am I NOT doing that!”