#super

Looking at Great-Great Grandpa Baldwin's photograph, I think to myself: You've finally done it. It took four generations, but you've finally goddamned done it. Gotten that war against reason and uppity secularists you always wanted. Gotten even for the Scopes trial, which they say was one of many burrs under your saddle until your last breath. Well, rejoice, old man, because your tribes have gathered around America's oldest magical hairball of ignorance and superstition, Christian fundamentalism, and their numbers have enabled them to suck so much oxygen out of the political atmosphere that they are now acknowledged as a mainstream force in politics. Episcopalians, Jews, and affluent suburban Methodists and Catholics, they are all now scratching their heads, sweating, and swearing loudly that this pack of lower-class zealots cannot possibly represent the mainstream--not the mainstream they learned about in their fancy sociology classes or were so comfortably reassured about by media commentators who were people like themselves. Goodnight, Grandpa Baldwin. I'll toast you from hell. ↗

— Joe Bageant

#christian #extremism #fundamentalism #ignorance #politics

On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end of it and we go back to the back of the bus again. ↗

— Hank Aaron

#again #back #been #blacks #bus

Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. ↗

— Dick Armey

#groups #money #need #other #people

When I was in middle school, some of my so-called friends found a catalogue ad I did for Superman pajamas. They made as many copies as they could and pasted them up all over school. ↗

— Jensen Ackles

#catalogue #copies #could #did #found

A simple rule in dealing with those who are hard to get along with is to remember that this person is striving to assert his superiority; and you must deal with him from that point of view. ↗

— Alfred Adler

#assert #deal #dealing #get #hard

It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views; for these also contributed something, by developing before us the powers of thought. ↗

— Aristotle

#also #be grateful #before #contributed #developing

I never could have planned this, and now I'm in my ideal situation career-wise and just sort of where I am in my life, and I'm super happy with how everything's going. ↗

— Shawn Ashmore

#could #everything #going #happy #how

Playing a character who's dealing not only with a superpower but having a normal relationship is easy to associate with, because I feel that everyone has been through it. ↗

— Shawn Ashmore

#because #been #character #dealing #easy

Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#folly #future #humanity #ignorant #important

If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he do not obey it yet he shall not be dismissed. ↗

— Francis of Assisi

#although #any #conscience #dismissed #give