Ryan Joy (atxryan) » Politics

HP Lovecraft on Republicans (1936)

atxryan — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 19:35:45 +0000

As for the Republicans — how can one regard seriously a frightened, greedy, nostalgic huddle of tradesmen and lucky idlers who shut their eyes to history and science, steel their emotions against decent human sympathy, cling to sordid and provincial ideals exalting sheer acquisitiveness and condoning artificial hardship for the non-materially-shrewd, dwell smugly and sentimentally in a distorted dream-cosmos of outmoded phrases and principles and attitudes based on the bygone agricultural-handicraft world, and revel in (consciously or unconsciously) mendacious assumptions (such as the notion that real liberty is synonymous with the single detail of unrestricted economic license or that a rational planning of resource-distribution would contravene some vague and mystical ‘American heritage’…) utterly contrary to fact and without the slightest foundation in human experience? Intellectually, the Republican idea deserves the tolerance and respect one gives to the dead.
— HP Lovecraft, 1936

Fuck the South

atxryan — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 16:09:54 +0000

I'm Texan, but I find this rant funny-as-hell.

Reagan-Appointed Judge Strikes Down Gay Marriage Ban | Cato @ Liberty

atxryan — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 20:45:35 +0000

In other words, this “liberal San Francisco judge” was recommended by Ed Meese, appointed by Ronald Reagan, and opposed by Alan Cranston, Nancy Pelosi, Edward Kennedy, and the leading gay activist groups. It’s a good thing for advocates of marriage equality that those forces were only able to block Walker twice.

Barack Obama’s rant against technology: Don’t shoot the messenger | The Economist

atxryan — Wed, 19 May 2010 14:50:27 +0000

"the idea that educating people is the best way to enable them to adapt to technological change, and use it for good. But technology is not an alternative to education and empowerment; it can, in fact, help deliver them. America’s first web-savvy president should understand that."

Republican’s Waterloo

atxryan — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 21:54:16 +0000

"How do you negotiate with somebody who wants to murder your grandmother? Or – more exactly – with somebody whom your voters have been persuaded to believe wants to murder their grandmother?"

In Defense of Deficits

atxryan — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 17:32:45 +0000

Do deficits matter?

“The Only Moral Abortion is My Abortion” – When the Anti-Choice Choose

atxryan — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 22:26:46 +0000

Fascinating anecdotal accounts about the choices anti-choice women make when they experience an unwanted pregnancy.

If Global Warming Is Real Then Why Is It Cold

atxryan — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 04:24:06 +0000

Obama to get deficit commission with or without Republican help, Hoyer says – washingtonpost.com

atxryan — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 21:42:34 +0000

If Boehner and McConnell refuse to appoint lawmakers, Hoyer said, Obama will select his own set of Republicans — "perhaps former members [of Congress], perhaps others, that are people that can make a real contribution to how we get to balance over the coming years."

Gates: Pentagon preparing repeal of ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ policy – CNN.com

atxryan — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 22:19:42 +0000

"I speak five languages, including Arabic," he said. "There's nothing more that I'd love than to go back right now."

And there’s why this policy is so stupid.