Pettifogging

(adj.) Focusing on the petty or trivial.
Our kid’s entering the world in style.

Our kid’s entering the world in style.

Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.

John Steinbeck

If America is to remain a truly honorable beacon of freedom, she needs to do so in spite of the challenges those freedoms entail. Sadly, by allowing every citizen to think how he’d like, America will every once in a while grow a Ted Kaczynski, a Timothy McVeigh, or a Faisal Shahzad. That is the cost of freedom of thought, and, in a word, that sucks. But the melancholy, sometimes frightening truth they don’t tell you in grade-school history books is this: If you really love and believe in the experiment that is the United States of America, you need to be prepared to die not necessarily defending her freedoms, but because of her freedoms. And I’d rather die in a fire in my own home at the hands of a terrorist than try and banish from my city all Americans who worship differently from me.

Seriously, What is the Deal with These Idiots Who Hate Muslims?  (via: GOOD)  (via villagevoice)

American-style napkins for when you’re stuffing your gullet like a Real American.  USA! USA! USA!

American-style napkins for when you’re stuffing your gullet like a Real American. USA! USA! USA!