The only reason I drink by myself so much is because most people are ugly and stupid.

FRIEND: Blaming violence on guns is like blaming obesity on forks.

ME: No, people don’t bring forks into schools, or theaters, or banks, to kill innocent people. They bring guns. No war was ever started or ended with a fork, no President ever assassinated with a fork. Obesity is a slow form of suicide, guns are an instant form of murder.

FRIEND: Why blame the guns? The problem is the failure of the mental health care system.

ME: Really? Would the people who support gun rights also vote for increased funding of public mental health care?

FRIEND: (Silence)

ME: Get the fuck out of here.

~ Thomas Edison

~ Arthur C. Clarke

Today would have been scientist Carl Sagan’s 78th birthday. Republicans will celebrate by saying the word God a bunch of times.

Happy Birthday, Carl!

met·a·phor   noun   \ˈme-tə-for also -fər\

A figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them (as in drowning in money); broadly : figurative language — compare simile

Oh, God.

“I’m talking to Carl Sagan about science. Your move Pope.” ~ Dalai Lama

~ Epicurus, 341 BC - 270 BC

Jesus H. Christ

Echoes

God Hates Fun

I’m a Facts Machine

It is, in fact, not many things.