Higher education is not a luxury. It’s an economic imperative that every family in America should be able to afford.

President Obama speaking in Michigan today about his plans to make college more affordable (via barackobama)

Well I think it would be super if everyone could have their very own human rights acknowledged, but we don’t all get what we want, now, do we?

Clearly, Congress is high school and these committees are The Plastics from Mean Girls. 

…which presumably makes Ron Paul the captain of the debate team. I guess Rick Perry can be captain of the cheerleading team, even though he isn’t in the federal government.

In case of statism, break glass (no, not the window, Krugman). 

Gandalf is a BAMF.

Seriously, think about the children. Imagine how screwed up the moral foundations of the generation growing up with laws like this would be.

Is piracy really 25% more deplorable than murder?