“Andrews is little more than a few crisscrossed roads in the middle of the desert, wrapped around a couple of gas stations and Mexican restaurants and populated by tough blue-collar workers hunkered down in modest little sun-cooked houses. If you can grasp this little working-class neck of Texas lending a Dallas billionaire $75 million so that he can keep 90 percent of the revenue from a dangerous nuclear-waste dump that runs without any real regulatory oversight, all while paying no school taxes, then you’ve begun to understand what Rick Perry’s America might look like.”

- Rick Perry: The Best Little Whore In Texas | Matt Taibbi | Rolling Stone

Decades Old Calvin and Hobbes Strip Succinctly Explains Occupy Wall Street Movement

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“To rid the world of Osama bin Laden, Anwar al-Awlaki and Moammar Qaddafi within six months: if Obama were a Republican, he’d be on Mount Rushmore by now.”

- A Tale Of Two Presidents - Andrew Sullivan

“A big percentage of the Republicans that were elected this time came here to do zero, and that’s what they’ve done.”

- Transportion Secretary and former Republican congressman Ray LaHood

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At Jim Henson’s funeral, the Muppets (and their human handlers) sang his favorite songs. I found this a few days ago and cannot stop watching it. [Related: Frank Oz on Fresh Air]