For more humorous photos:

Mocking the East Coast earthquake — San Francisco Chronicle, 8.24.2011

www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIcqb9hHQ3E

Frantz Fanon was talking about colonialism, but he may as well have been talking about the Republican Tea Party:

“Sometimes people hold a core belief that is very strong. When they are presented with evidence that works against that belief, the new evidence cannot be accepted. And because it is so important to protect the core belief, they will rationalize, ignore and even deny anything that doesn’t fit in with the core belief.”

Just in case you needed further proof that pharmaceutical companies belong in the Fourth Circle of Dante’s Inferno.

Every year, pharmaceutical companies spend billions to get doctors to prescribe drugs to children. Johnson & Johnson even distributes tons of Legos that advertise its latest anti-psychotic, which causes diabetes, weight gain, and even breasts in boys and girls who take it.

Are you taking over
Or are you taking orders?
Are you going backward
Or are you going forwards?
– The Clash

We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace—business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering.

They had begun to consider the Government of the United States as a mere appendage to their own affairs. We know now that Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob.

Never before in all our history have these forces been so united against one candidate as they stand today. They are unanimous in their hate for me—and I welcome their hatred.

Speech at Madison Square Garden (October 31, 1936) — Franklin Delano Roosevelt

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity.  When there’s a gap  between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink. — George Orwell.