“For heaven’s sake, you have Grover Norquist wandering the earth in his white robes saying that if you raise taxes one penny, he’ll defeat you. He can’t murder you. He can’t burn your house. The only thing he can do to you, as an elected official, is defeat you for reelection. And if that means more to you than your country when we need patriots to come out in a situation when we’re in extremity, you shouldn’t even be in Congress.” — Former Senator Alan Simpson (R-WY)
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Is Congress getting dumber, or just more plainspoken?
Congress now speaks at almost a full grade level lower than it did just seven years ago, with the most conservative members of Congress speaking on average at the lowest grade level, according to a new Sunlight Foundation analysis of the Congressional Record using Capitol Words.
Of course, what some might interpret as a dumbing down of Congress, others will see as more effective communications. And lawmakers of both parties still speak over the heads of the average American, who reads at between at 8th and 9th grade level.
Today’s Congress collectively speaks at a 10.6 grade level, down from 11.5 in 2005.
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This eclipse is casting some wild shadows through the tree leaves. (Taken with instagram)
Most bigot’s morality comes down to this.
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Yes.
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“When you’re confronted by a werewolf—now this is important—you need to immediately get out of your car and run out into the open.” — Mike Nelson, MST3K “Werewolf” (via vanessacsketch)
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Q. F. T.
You’ve got grow into your nerddom, but once you do it’s fucking awesome.
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“I’m not sure I know what AirPlay is. Today we want to be on every screen. Today it’s a little bit clunky to get programming from the Internet onto the TV — not so hard to get it on your iPad. What’s hard is the plumbing, what wires do you connect, what device do you use. So the current Apple TV, the little thing, the hockey puck, really doesn’t do anything to help enable you to get Internet material on your TV.” —
It’s not so much that he hasn’t heard of AirPlay. It’s that he specifically states that Apple doesn’t offer the exact feature set that is AirPlay.
Airplay launched in 2010. It’s an extension of AirTunes, which launched in 2004.
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He might as well have said, “I’m the CEO of Time Warner, and I have no idea what I’m talking about.”
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