Everything is pretty blah on a Monday — especially a Monday turning into a Tuesday — so instead let’s all look at these pictures of dwarf flying squirrels from Japan.
It made me make an unpleasant and automatic noise that I hope never to make again.
(via keep-it-copacetic)
I love you, Dr. Zoidberg.
(via fyeahdrzoidberg)
If I were meaner, and you weren’t about to come back from getting your laundry, this would be a much more elequently executed attack.
<3 The Light of Your Morning
ETA by Yours Truly:
Point the First being the following: e-l-o-q-u-e-n-t-l-y. Eloquently. My browser even checks your spelling for you. (While some may think this mean, she is notorious for making typos, and is the most articulate person I know who makes as many as she does. I have to keep her on her toes.)
Point the Second being the following: hack (v. hæk); to gain access to a computer file or network illegally or without authorization. Going up to my open laptop, logged into Tumblr (and Facebook, I might add) and opening up a browser tab is hardly hacking. Exploitative, yes, but not hacking.
Check yoself.
Hey Tumblr! Look! It’s four problems I have with The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword! Lengthy diatribe is lengthy and behind the cut. Most of you reading my blog will probably want to skip this.
God, I really can’t stand the Republicans in Congress.
(Source: dolly-shot, via political-cartoons)
richardarthurjames replied to your photo: Okay, so let’s talk about this picture, because it…
I’m honestly surprised by the lack of comment on Andrew Jackson’s “wait, we care about that now?,” Grant’s “I’m so drunk I can barely stand,” or Nixon’s “haha, you amateur” face. Plus Clinton totally looks like a slim Gingrich here.
That would have been too easy! Everyone knows about their antics.
ETA:
Okay, so let’s talk about this picture, because it pisses me off. Well, a lot of things piss me off, but incorrect criticism of this president (whom I happen to like) piss me off greatly.
(So just so we’re clear, it’s President Obama standing on the Constitution, surrounded by torn up bits of money, while a working man is down on his luck while the rest of the presidents console him.)
Let’s cover ways in which some of those presidents superseded the Constitution:
George Washington rode out to western Pennsylvania with a full military to goad farmers into paying taxes on whiskey in the Whiskey Rebellion.
John Adams signed the Alien and Sedition Acts into law (barring criticism of the government in print) and nearly got us into a war with France.
The crowning achievement of Thomas Jefferson’s presidency, the Louisiana Purchase, was so extra-constitutional the president himself (an advocate of a weaker executive) wasn’t even sure it was legal.
Abraham Lincoln suspended the writ of habeas corpus in 1861, fearing riots in Maryland would cause the state to secede from the Union. The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, and Congress wouldn’t even approve of it until 1863.
Franklin D. Roosevelt (this one is a bit of a doozy) tried to pack the Supreme Court with friendly justices, he ran for an unprecedented third term (not technically unconstitutional, but eventually banned in the form of the 22nd Amendment), and he interned Japanese-American citizens by executive order at the start of World War II.
(These last two presidents are usually considered the greatest American presidents in history for handling the Civil War, the Great Depression, and World War II.)
Ronald Reagan, the Great Saint of the Republican Party, illegally sold weapons to Iran and then used the money to fund anti-communist contras in Nicaragua, also an illegal practice.
We could spend all night talking about the extra-constitutionality of most of George W. Bush’s tenure, from the USAPATRIOT Act to Guantanamo Bay to wiretapping American citizens to torturing prisoners to… well, you get the gist.
And what on earth did Barack Obama do? He… signed health care legislation into law that falls under the purview of the necessary and proper clause as well as the commerce clause of the Constitution.
Hardly the height of impropriety and presidential overreach.
I regret that I have reached the age of 22 without playing Calvinball. We used to play extreme croquet, but we broke the croquet mallets.
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