Cape Fear at dusk.
Perspective, originally uploaded by Becca00.

Sit. Breathe.
Breathe in.
Breathe out.
Repeat as necessary.

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Or, in this case, the Oracle of Doofii.
So named for the gaggle of TSA agents that must convene around the X-ray scanner to divine whatever it is that you see in my laptop bag. And if it turns out to be a stumper, it becomes necessary to call in the high priest(ess), sacrifice a small [...]

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I have seen the 9th Circle of Hell.
It is the baggage claim area at any major airport in the days before Christmas.
A huge collection of just about every mouth-breathing idiot, moron, and fucktard that the human race can produce.
News flash: It isn’t necessary to bring the whole f’ing clan out to pick up Jimmy coming [...]

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Mitt Romney is doing his best to make a lie seem not so much like a lie.
First, we have this:

“I saw my father march with Martin Luther King.”

And later:

“If you look in the dictionary, the term ’saw’ includes being aware of in the sense I’ve described. … In that sense, I saw him march with [...]

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Dear Mike Huckabee,
In light of your recent statements and pandering to evangelicals, to wit:

HOUSTON - Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee on Tuesday defended his Christmas ad amid suggestions that the ordained Baptist minister had gone too far mixing religion and politics.
The ad, which is airing in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina, shows Huckabee [...]

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Today, on the Cafferty File, Jack Cafferty asks a fairly straightforward question:

How much influence should corporations have over energy legislation?

The answer is easy: Absolutely none. Period.
Energy is an issue of national security and directly tied to our ability to sustain our economy and our national way of life.
Energy corporations are not accountable to the public [...]

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More accurately, Mitt Romney is a huge fucking dick, ignorant of the U.S. Constitution, and theocratic prick. I’ve seen this episode before it’s insanely fucking stupid.
Oh, what has Mitt done?
This:

We separate church and state affairs in this country, and for good reason. No religion should dictate to the state nor should the state interfere with [...]

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A snowstorm was blowing through downtown Chicago, so I decided to go out for a walk and enjoy the evening. These corridors of Chicago always evoke the gritty, greasy, urban underbelly of the city.
Wells St. El Tracks, originally uploaded by Becca00.

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Joe Scarborough goes bottom feeding with Christopher Hitchens and comes up with a bucket of garbage:

Scarborough: Doesn’t a lot of [the surge of atheism] have to do with the fact that George Bush got re-elected in 2004, supposedly by evangelicals? I remember the day after the election, people like Maureen Dowd and … and uh, [...]

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