The Apex of the Vortex

This week (Mitt Romney) was attacking Obama about ‘our failing educational system.’ (And) he has a point: I mean, we are graduating millions of people in this country who are so lacking in basic analytical skills, they are considering voting for Mitt Romney.

—BILL MAHER, Real Time (via inothernews)

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It somehow became an article of faith on the right that Obama is ‘the most extreme President in American history.’ Although when they say that, I think what they really mean is, ‘He’s black.’

—BILL MAHER, Real Time (via inothernews)

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But I guess the thing that I want to say about fandom is that it’s the closest thing to religion there is that isn’t actually religion.

—Joss Whedon (x)

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If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.

—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (via myquotelibrary)

Lovely.

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