What I said at 3 minutes after midnight on the first… | Neil Gaiman’s Journal

Some fantastic words to welcome in the new year:

May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you’re wonderful, and don’t forget to make some art — write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.

…I hope you will have a wonderful year, that you’ll dream dangerously and outrageously, that you’ll make something that didn’t exist before you made it, that you will be loved and that you will be liked, and that you will have people to love and to like in return. And, most importantly (because I think there should be more kindness and more wisdom in the world right now), that you will, when you need to be, be wise, and that you will always be kind.

Hume calls on Tiger Woods to be “a great example to the world” by converting to Christianity | Media Matters

Republicans truly are pieces of shit, as if converting to Christianity would make a sin more or less forgiveable.

That’s the problem with Talibangelicals and their ilk, they believe that just going to church solves everything. No, you ALSO have to not be racist warmongers. Idiots.

Or, as posted on Reddit:

So Brit Hume suggested Tiger go find Jesus. I wonder why he didn’t make the same suggestion to Mark Sanford, John Ensign, Mark Foley, Ted Haggard, Larry Craig, and all the other republican cheaters, pedophiles, and repressed homosexuals.

– posted by ioster

Dick the Coward | The Washington Monthly

“Seven years of bellicose rhetoric failed to reduce the threat from al Qaeda and succeeded in dividing this country. And it seems strangely off-key now, at a time when our country is under attack, for the architect of those policies to be attacking the President.”

– Dan Pfeiffer, White House Communications Director on Cheney’s stupidity

Dick Cheney is being a douchebag blowhard again. He keeps on meddling with treason as far as I’m concerned.

More from Juan Cole on how Cheney has done more to make us less safe than practically anyone. Even al-Qaeda.

And the Ed Show has this wonderful bit, including the following quote:

“It was Dick Cheney personally responsible for the release of the masterminds of the Christmas airline terror plot….

“People like Jim DeMint and people like Dick Cheney need to go away so we can solve the problems they’ve created.”

– Rep. Eric Massa, NY

Think Progress » Madden defends GOP’s hypocritical attacks: Obama’s in Hawaii, which ‘seems like a foreign place.’

“(Y)ou have to also remember the fact that the president being on vacation in Hawaii, it’s much different than being in Texas. Hawaii to many Americans seems like a foreign place. And I think those images, the optics, hurt President Obama very badly.”

– Former Romney spokesman and current Tool Kevin Madden

Republicans are, quite seriously, anti-American douchebags. To think that Hawaii isn’t American enough for them goes back to the whole Palinite BS argument about “real Americans”. I live in a desert surrounded by casinos and mountains. No one in Nebraska would find any similarity with that at all, but that person and I are both Americans.

There’s probably some conservative racist code words in there too I imagine.

Best reply to this asshole who thinks only Texas can be viewed as the standard for America?

Yeah, uh, that state whose leaders want it to actually become a foreign place via secession?

– Commenter BobbyG

Hopi Teens Worry About Loss Of Culture : NPR

Working at various casinos around the country, I occasionally landed in tribal areas. Many of them are working hard to improve their communities while hanging onto their past. For some tribes, it is already too late.

I have never been to Hopi territory nor do I know if they even have a casino to bring some money into the community. That said, when I heard this story about the young folks there trying to preserve their language, it struck a chord.

And to hell with all those bastards who just want people to conform and lose their identity.